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Differentiating home root paths for domain and subdomain
I have a web structure with a domain and a subdomain, let's call it example.com and blog.example.com.
I want to be able to track both the main domain and it's subdirectory within the same Analytics ...
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What is the difference between script variable and beacons in web analytics
What is the difference between script variable and beacon parameters in web analytics? What is the relationship? Would I be able to list both through page source?
Also please tell me what happens if ...
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Google non-SSL search not passing the “q” parameter with keyword
I am building a web analytics application for search engine traffic only and right now I am looking into providing some information about keywords that google does not show. Like not provided keyword.
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Question about decreasing AlexaRank
We all know that Alexa ranking is not accurate as it make use of only the visits by the users having the Alexa toolbar installed in the browser.
My question is, I'm regularly tracking the visits of a ...
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Can't Access Old Analytics Account [closed]
I set up Google Analytics for my site a few years ago, so the tracking code is installed, but I haven't logged in for a very long time.
Now, I can't log in to access the stats. I am logged in to both ...
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Google Analytics Content Experiment not redirecting to original page
I have this afternoon created a Content Experiment in Google Analytics with the object of directing users to a specific page 25% of the time.
So my attempt to do this was to create an experiment that ...
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How to deactivate Piwik locally?
Is it possible / how to deactivate the Piwik tracking for the local / dev project copy?
It would work with something like <?php if (current environment is / is not ...) : ?> print (Piwik code); ...
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How can I pass referrer header from my https domain to http domains?
My website is 100% https. I have links to other http domains. The referrer header is not set when linking from a https page to a http page. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
If a ...
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Analyzing logs: how to get page views broken down by page?
I have a WordPress site where we didn't enable "pretty" permalinks, and thus, all pages in it have URLs in the form ?p=3921. Now, when I log into the statistics page in my hosting provider, I see that ...
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Quantcast reporting
Looking at a Quantcast report I see that they have metrics like women, male, children and different age groups, etc. How do they determine which visitor to the site is woman, male, child, old man, ...
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What does the keyword 'impression' mean or constitute in web analytics
I would like to understand what does the keyword 'clicks' mean or constitute in web analytics. I have asked a similar question for clicks since the keywords individually mean 2 different things.
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What does the keyword 'clicks' mean or constitute in web analytics [duplicate]
I would like to understand what does the keyword 'clicks' mean or constitute in web analytics
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Where can I find unfiltered search query statistics?
I would like to learn more about upcoming trends and I also need it for seo. I know Google Trends, but it displays only filtered statistics about what and how people search.
Can you recommend me any ...
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How to keep track of a unique and an existing visitor
I am creating an app that requires to know if the visitor visiting the app is a unique visitor or an already visited visitor. I know we could persist a cookie on the visitor's computer to know ...
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detecting when you are going to reach your hit limit for Google Analytics free account
I am a user of a free Google Analytics account and i'm slightly concerned that I may be approaching the 10,000,000 hit (Pageviews, Events etc) per month.
Google state in their documentation:
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Solution for tracking lead generations and share data with partners [duplicate]
I need to implement a lead generation feature on a website. Technically I understand how it works (e.g. Javascript script associated with the onlick event of a button which sends data about the user ...
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Difference between Alexa, Google Analytics, Quantcast and Compete website statistics
I am getting confused by the following traffic metric systems: Google Analytics, Alexa, Quantcast and Compete metrics because they each show different values. ie. unique traffic, visits, pageviews, ...
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“Not Provided” keywords from Google search: If your site uses https, does Google always send the keywords in the referrer?
Over the last two years the number of "keyword not provided" referrals from Google Search has grown to close to 30% for my websites. Google does not send the keyword in the referer URL when the user ...
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mass data collection for twitter [closed]
I have a list of about 4000 twitter users I need the number of followers and number of tweets for. Is there a tool that can do this automatically without having to manually input them?
How about a ...
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Analytics - Total events divided by number of unique pages?
I am using Google Analytics events to track keywords on my articles - not necessarily the best system I know but there are too many for variables I can't easily change it right now - and I would like ...
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Google analytics data is contradictory
For this post http://mytabletguru.com/forgot-password-pattern-unlock-of-android-tablet/
I am two different report.
1) When I see the Content -> Site Content -> Landing page, then it has following ...
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Is there any profiling tool to measure web application performance by identifying common interactions paths?
I would like to measure how long it takes to complete a single operation such as "UPDATING AGE ON A CUSTOMER FORM", "INSERT A NEW CUSTOMER" in my web application. Is there any tool with some web ...
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Run Google Analytics reports across multiple accounts / properties
So I have a single login for Google Analytics that tracks multiple accounts with multiple properties as so.
Account 1
Property A
Property B
Property C
Property D
Account 2
Property E
Property F
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Google Analytics and multiple sites with combined stats [duplicate]
I have about 40 sites (similar structure just different verticals/content). Example: site1.com site2.com
Is it possible to see the stats of all sites within one property?
I was thinking of doing ...
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Unique Visitor count increases when pages are excluded
For a date range greater than one day the total number of Unique Visitors is greater when I exclude pages ending in "foo" than when I look at all pages. The difference is ~4%. Why would this be ...
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How to track events or e-commerce sales that occur later using Google Analytics?
Here's my problem:
I have a static site with Google Analytics tracking code.
To buy one of my services, users call me, and when their order is ready (many days later), I send them an e-mail link to ...
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Using Google Analytics to Track Stats Only for Visitors (Not Visits) Who Converted
I'm having trouble setting up the right Google Analytics reporting for my website.
I want to know the "Total Visits", "Pages / Visit", and "Avg. Time on Site" (I'll call these "stats" from now on) ...
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Google Analytics Filters not removing traffic from other domain
We have a frustrating problem where someone copied our site code including our Google Analytics code. So we are getting stats logged from their site which is very frustrating.
I have setup 4 Filters, ...
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Google Analytics traffic sources shows 538 visits with 0 pages / visit
I'm looking at my Google Analytic traffic sources report, along with the 'landing page' secondary dimension.
Under the source '(direct)/(none)' there's a landing page called '(not set)' which has 538 ...
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google analytics - include filter nto working
I just added an Include filter this morning in my domain (test.org). I have
Custom Filter > Include > Request URI > ^/test-a/46212$|^/test-a/46212|^/test-a/46315
Now after I go to Content > Site ...
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How to separate data from subdomains in Google Analytics?
I want to split my data from different subdomains in Google Analytics. I know it's possible to do it using different profiles + filters, but when you have a ton of subdomains, it's almost impossible ...
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Using google analytics goals to optimise goals in adwords
We have set up goals in analytics to do with time on site, we also have an adwords campaign running, i noticed in adwords you can set up a conversion in adwords.
But this only works by putting code ...
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Google analytics pageviews and events
Im trying to track pageviews for categories/subcategories/actions with position on my site.
position values: title, category, popup.
Categories values: Ex. auto.
subcategories values: Ex. heavy.
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How can I safely analyze users' password quality?
Given a registration service website with rather lax password requirements for the users (6-12 characters with no special requirements), how can I safely analyze what quality of passwords users pick ...
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get aggregated view of data for entire website with Google Analytics
I have a website (www.ayrshireminis.com), which has three main sections under different directories, these are:
/forum
/galleries
/contact
I would like to have an aggregated view of the data for ...
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alternatives to google analytics, that dont tag organic searches as 'not provided' [closed]
As im sure most people know 'not provided' as an organic keyword source is really irritating. I was wandering if theres any other analytics providers free or otherwise that can track the incoming ...
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Google Analytics visits showing from discontinued campaign in reports
In my Google Analytics reports I am noticing that there are visits coming from a discontinued campaign, called AW12_AyrshireMinis?
Is this likely to be due to the visitors that were originally ...
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Track visitor use of “Ctrl + F” on a website?
Would it theoretically be possible to detect (e.g. via JavaScript) if a user queries a webpage with the Windows shortcut Ctrl + F, or the Mac-equivalent Command + F in their browser?
The first step ...
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Analytics reports multiple different screen resolutions for (apparently) a single visitor
I have a site with only a small number of visitors. Using the "days since last visit" dimension in Google Analytics I thought I could work out a flow of individual visitors from day to day:
Date ...
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Unique vs New Visitors “explanation needed”
i was wondering if anyone can help me understand the relation between the unique visitors and the new visitors terms in GA.
Here is what i originally thought:
Unique visitor = each user is counted ...
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How do click throughs from google places show up in analytics
We've just implemented google places for our business are getting a few hits through, i know that places has there own sort of mini analytics, but they are realy just a hybrid impressions, ctr chart.
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Piwik Server Overhead
I am developing an intranet site on a Raspberry Pi and am interested in incorporating Piwik into my code. My question, however, is how much overhead impact there will be with the pi's CPU/RAM? Does ...
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How come a keyword with 46 local monthly searches get 150 local monthly impressions?
I am doing a keyword analysis by correlating data between Google ANalytics and Google Adwords Keyword tool. So here is the confusion
I check the local monthly searches (Sweden) for "SEO Packages" ...
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Google Analytics: What is the limit of tracked pageviews per month?
I have been looking around to try and find some confirmation and clarity on the limit of pageviews that Google allow per month for a Google Analytics account.
I have read that the limit of hits per ...
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SEO and new site - visibility best practices [closed]
Since i launched a new web site, i was wondering which are the best practices to let the visibility of the site grow up faster then just leaving the site online?
I mean which internet channels are ...
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Sales tracker that allows complex queries? [closed]
On a site, every click on a product should be registered by a sales tracker: price, type, etc.
The sales tracker should provide an API so that complex queries can be performed, such as: Which ...
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Analysing traffic sources in Analytics for Magento sales
Hi I have a Magento installation linked with a Google Analytics account. It works very well in that I can see conversions, I can see the products that are selling directly from analytics and I can get ...
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Tracking email via analytics
I need to do email analytics, aim is to create an endpoint where when user sends an email to contact@mycompany.com, the email is processed and data in email is used for google analytics conversion.
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Google Goals process not working through similarly named pages
Well, I'm at a loss.
I've ensured that my tracking script is in etc etc, and I've set up my goal and funnel path, but only the first step is ever being shown on the funnel.
Goal URL: ...
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where can I find the 'Clicks' metric group in Google Analytics
I believe there is a 'Clicks' metric group in Google Analytics, however I cannot find it and there is little to no documentation on this.
Does this still exist in GA and, if so, what report shall I ...
