For questions related to analytics methods and tools.
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Is there a better analytics package than Google Analytics?
I've used Google Analytics for a while now, and it's pretty good for a high level view. But when I want to dig into the numbers a bit more, everything gets kind of vague. I also don't like that it ...
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Standard ratio of cookies to “visitors”?
As noted in a recent blog post, We see a large discrepancy between Google Analytics "visitors" and Quantcast "visitors".
Also, for reasons we have never figured out, Google Analytics just gets ...
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What is the best Apache logs Analyzer?
What real-time log analyzer can you suggest for Apache access and error logs?
There is a list of web analytics software on wikipedia, but it would be great to hear opinions from people with ...
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One multi-domain analytics profile, or one analytics profiles per domain?
I currently run a small web-app that connects local businesses with new customers in a very specific niche. In the past few months this model has worked very well and the growth is excellent, so much ...
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How do you format SEM URLS to properly track results using analytics engines like Google analytics?
If I were to purchase some advertising space on a website- what should I add to the end of the URL to track the results of that campaign in a tool like Google Analytics?
Is capitalization ...
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4answers
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Is it a bad idea to use multiple analytic packages?
Is it alright to use multiple analytics packages (Google, clicky, mixpanel, etc) at the same time on the same site? Would it be more beneficial to just use one package?
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How to make sense of analytics data?
Are there any good resources out there for learning how to use analytics data?
I'd like to learn how to take the data and apply it practically to my site in order to make it a better experience for ...
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7answers
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Is there a good way to measure my site's response time from different parts of the world?
I would like to measure how fast my site loads from different locations around the world. What is the best way to do this?
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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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2answers
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Best Free Web Statistics and Analytics Packages For Sites Using PHP & MySQL
I'm looking for a list of the best free web statistics and analytics packages for my site using PHP & MySQL?
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What are the pros & cons of web server log analysis over web based analytics like google analytics
What are the advantages of web server log file analysis over web services like google analytics?
What are the advantages of google analytics like tools over web server log file analysis?
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How to track subscriptions to an RSS feed
I have RSS feeds on some of my sites and I'm wondering how I can track how many people are subscribing to them.
The obvious solution is to track the number of hits on the URL, but I don't feel like ...
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Google Analytics: Why is Avg Time on Site lower than Avg time on Page?
I have the following Custom Report set up in Google Analytics:
Metrics:
Avg Time on Page
Avg Time on Site
Dimensions:
Page
So a report looks like this:
Page Avg Time on ...
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2answers
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How do I analyze vague Google Analytics data re traffic from Facebook?
We have one Facebook fan page and two personal profiles that could be sending traffic and then there are the many facebook pages of friends etc. I am also running an ad campaign from my FB account ...
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2answers
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How do i analyse my website in terms of seo
what are the tools that can be used to analyse the SEO score and other seo facctors that helps in promoting websites in search engines
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1answer
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google analytics statistics
I am compiling a report for a client using google analytics. I have observed that the client has unusually good page view times (>5 mins) and excellent bounce rates (<25%).
I need to reference ...
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What are examples of services that track content-driven activity on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?
I'm trying to design the basics for a platform that enables users to access sets of statistics and information related to the way how their publications are handled and shared across social networks ...
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Is it possible to use Google Analytics to track file downloads?
It's always bothered me that Google Analytics (and similar embedded web traffic monitoring services) can only see a reflection of the traffic going to my server and can only see page visits since it ...
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1answer
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Good tools to measure a page’s usefulness?
I'd like to add a "Was this page useful?" part at the end of multiple pages for visitors to rate the page and leave feedback.
I could program this myself, store the data and make the reports that my ...
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2answers
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Adding a calculated metric to a custom report in Google Analytics
Is there a way to display a calculated field in a custom report, for example I want to display the value of (event X / event Y) over time?
(including average event value, total events, etc.)
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1answer
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How do I get social engagement data in Google Analytics?
There's a Social Report under the Audience section. However it shows that none of our visitors are socially engaged. Searching the Google Analytics Help Centre for "social" or "engagement" doesn't ...
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1answer
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window.performance (Navigation Timing) - how to get this reported in “analytics way”
I have recently learned about window.performance that seems a great way to measure webapp performance using real client traffic. Is there any analytics service that is built on top of this and allows ...
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Recording custom variables to identify individual users with Google Analytics
I have been asked by our marketing department to add Google Analytics custom variable tracking to my company's website. As the website uses server side includes, modifications to the tracking tag roll ...
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1answer
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Any other services like MouseTrace? How useful is it?
I just need to know if there are any alternatives to mousetrace - http://www.mousetrace.com
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Has anyone used Genetify for A/B testing
I'm working on a small project that will likely run on Wordpress, I always like to run some split testing to improve conversion rates for various goals. Typically if its a small site that I either ...
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How can I get stats for what 3rd-party sites have embedded our iframe widget?
Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so:
<iframe src="http://example.com/whatever.php" frameBorder="0" width="200px" height="300px" scrolling="no"></iframe>
The ...
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3answers
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What is “?sfgdataq” that I see appended to some requests to my application?
I have noticed that a small number of requests come through my application with ?sfgdataq appended to them, I probably wouldn't have ever noticed it if it didn't cause an error on some requests.
I ...
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1answer
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Does Google still have benchmarking report?
I have been looking for Google benchmarking reports for a while, still cannot find it.
Is it still available?
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Text limit on analytics event code
I am just about to add the event code a button that downloads the pdf.
Event code fields:
_trackEvent(category, action, opt_label, opt_value, opt_noninteraction)
Example of event code:
...
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Exporting Google Analytics Data
I want to export all of my Google Analytics data to Excel for a weekly report. I will need to re-export the data every week so the process needs to be maintainable.
What is the best way to just get ...
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2answers
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Employee had analytics under his personal gmail, no longer with company
A former employee had Google Analytics for multiple websites setup under his personal gmail account. We suspect that he (upon being let go) removed/disassociated those analytics websites from his ...
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Meaning of 'UsageValue' in Amazon EC2 Reports
I've recently downloaded my usage reports from my EC2 account, but I don't understand the 'UsageValue' data since there is no indication of what unit the numbers are measured in.
I have a similar ...
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How can # of unique visitors be more than # of visits?
I am confused as heck. When looking at a few individual pages, I am seeing weird results I hope someone can help explain.
I am doing manual standard reports, and not creating or using a widget. For ...
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How do I find information on who links to my sites?
I'm trying to figure out if there's a free way to get information on back links to my site.
I've had webmaster tools and Google Analytics set up for years. But I can't find access to data about site ...
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Obtaining visitor stats without traffic monitoring software
A client would like me to obtain visitor stats for his website, but does not have any traffic monitoring software installed.
So I'm wondering if it's even possible. The site is hosted on Heroku, so ...
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What's the deal with URLs for Yandex.Metrica not prepended with “http”?
The description of Yandex.Metrica explicitly says that URLs like //mc.yandex.ru/metrika/watch.js (no http: in front) that the web site owner has to insert into his pages are not erroneous. So for ...
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Google Analytics: How can I track between http:// and https:// profiles for a domain?
I'm trying to set up tracking on a project that I'm working on.
The main site is at http://www.example.com/
The order page is at https://www.example.com/index.php
Currently they have two ...
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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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Tool for clickstream anlyzing of Apache logs?
Are there any good tools to analyze the clickstream of individual users in Apache web server logs? For example, I'd like to be able to click on a visitors IP address and see all pages the user ...
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How can I determine the trending pages on my site?
I'm looking to see what the "hot" pages are on one of my sites. I want to see for various timeframes, what the top-50 pages are. I'm only concerned with the current month's data.
I'm going to create ...
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Keep Google Analytics in a backup site or not?
I backed up my website and uploaded it to another server for testing and backup purposes.
Should I remove or edit the Google Analytics snippet from the index.php (which is for the real site), or does ...
4
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1answer
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How does quantcast determine values in metrics like “percent of site visitors with a master's degree”?
I recently started using Quantcast on my site to determine my audience (which, really the site is so small now that I already know). When I look at some of the metrics on Quantcast, I see gender, ...
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Web analytics accuracy - log files vs JavaScript
I've just read a claim on a web stats package site that suggests that log files generate more accurate stats than their JavaScript-based counterparts. This seems to be an over-simplification at best; ...
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Download tracking by IP
Is it possible to track downloads from a website by IP address?
Ideally, I would like to see a log file with possibly time stamps, occurrences, and who (IP address, and/or country of origin).
If ...
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How to prevent stat sites from getting/publishing my traffic and hosting information?
When I recently googled my website, stat sites came up that had more info on my website than I even knew off the top of my head! Daily traffic, Nameservers, analytics id, etc.
I removed google ...
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How do you get new sites into your Quantcast network?
Over a month ago, we added some of the new Stack Exchange sites to the "Stack Overflow Network" on Quantcast, but to date, they haven't showed up:
http://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc#subdomain
...
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How does Google Analytics aggregate the Count of Visits (Frequency & Recency Report)?
Here's my simple understanding of Count of Visits:
Each person that comes to my site gets one "count" for each visit. They are put into a bucket of people with the same number of total counts -- if ...
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Tracking an iframed page hosted on another domain with Google Analytics
I've followed Google's instructions on tracking iframed content on another domain (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingSite.html#trackingIFrames) as best I can, yet there is ...
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New traffic sources
How can I track new traffic sources for my site? (with google analytics or other tool)
For example, if site is mentioned on forum it gets some visits from here, but it isn't visible (easy) in traffic ...
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Self hosted Web Analytics like urchin
I would like some cheap/free web analytic software to be used on my windows server (Server 2008). urchin seems to be way expensive. please provide me some good recommendations.
