Cross-domain tracking: Track if users actually cross domains

Question

Pls apologize if I'm not clear enough, i'll try to be as concise as possible.

I'm working on a a company that created it's own competitors, each has it own website, all share the same GA through GTM. Cross-domain tracking is implemented and working.

I want to know if users do actually visit these different sites, which is very likely because there is a lot of research before buying what this company offers.

I understand User Id's will not do the trick because I want to track them before visitors identify themselves through a form. There's no login.

Initially I thought I'll be able to create a segment to narrow down to users with more than one of this company's domains in their history, but that is not working. Should that do the trick?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In the view that get all data you have to create a segment to show users that visited first and second domain. If it is greater than 0 means the cross domain is set correctly.

For good implementation see Troubleshooting Cross-Domain Tracking in Google Analytics: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.simoahava.com/amp/analytics/troubleshooting-cross-domain-tracking-in-google-analytics/