Time Log – time spent on other students’ sites (4 entries):
Date: Feb 16, 2026 From: 8:10 pm To: 8:38 pm
Date: Feb 16, 2026 From: 8:40 pm To: 9:12pm
Date: Feb 20, 2026 From: 7:04 am To: 7:30 am
Date: Feb 22, 2026 From: 6:40 am To: 7:15 am
Essay I. Summary of your activities in your contents including new contents created (one paragraph). Provide all the hyperlinks (clickable) of new contents you have created this week.
This week, I reorganized my site to make it easier to navigate and match the HW requirements: I switched from the Makao theme to Twenty Twenty-Four theme because Makao wouldn’t support the 3-level HWs menus the way I needed, then rebuilt the header/footer, fixed tag placement, and set up two menus, a general menu for Tech/My Life and a separate HWs menu that contains all homework pages. I also published two new posts: Gen Z: Balance Over Burnout on how Gen Z prioritizes boundaries and direct communication to avoid burnout and Sleep Over Doomscrolling on how late-night scrolling disrupts sleep and affects productivity/health.
The hyperlinks:
Sleep over Doomscrolling: http://52.12.113.25/2026/02/19/sleep-over-doomscrolling/
Gen Z: Balance Over Burnout : http://52.12.113.25/2026/02/19/gen-z-balance-over-burnout/
Essay II. Summary of your “Event” in GA4 (add a screenshot) (one paragraph)
I set up my GA4 “event” using Google Tag Manager. First, I made the GA4 Configuration tag (Initialization – All Pages) so GA4 loads on every page. Then I created custom GA4 Event tags for my two new posts, Gen Z: Balance Over Burnout and Sleep Over Doomscrolling and, used page-view triggers so the event fires only when someone lands on those specific post URLs. After publishing, I tested it in Preview/Tag Assistant and checked GA4 Realtime to make sure my custom event names showed up, and it worked and is tracking correctly.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, my previous HW7 submission and related posts were lost due to an unexpected issue on the site. I am not sure how the posts were deleted, but I recreated the entire assignment, including the required posts, Google Tag Manager setup, GA4 events, and tag cloud plugin configuration.
Essay III. Find and describe one of best use cases using custom events in GA4 (one paragraph)
Custom events in GA4 are really useful for tracking how people actually move around a site, not just which pages they visit. One of the best use cases is setting up an event to record the menu clicks, like when someone clicks “Tech,” “My Life,” or specific HW links. This would help us understand what sections visitors are most interested in and whether the navigation structure is clear. It’s basically a way to measure real user behavior and improve the site layout based on data.
Sources:
