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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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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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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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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.
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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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Best stats tool for cross-domain tracking
We build a webapp that allows users to run the app under their own subdomain. So we run the app under search.domainX.com, search.domainY.com and so on. They each have their own Google Analytics to ...
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Javascript based analytics tool with multiple user account management options?
We run a manage a website system for a large retail franchise. Each franchisee has their own templated website. We currently use SmarterStats to provide website analytics to our franchisees. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shopping Cart URL Structure
In regards to URL structure when it comes to guests and authenticated users, am I able to track traffic associated with both paths, but at the same time track total conversions going through the ...
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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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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 to track opens and pageviews in PDFs?
I know how to track clicks in links to pdfs and pfd's downloads.
But I need to track how many times a PDF is opened after being downloaded and if possible track how many times certain pages are ...
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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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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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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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Where can I find comscore rank?
Recently one ad network rejected my registration stating that my site doesn't match their minimum monthly impressions, even though the site serves thrice the required page views. When I contacted them ...
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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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Multiple domains but one report in Google Analytics?
I'd like to generate a report for a dozen or so websites with different domains.
Example:
myfirstsite.com
acoolsite.com
brandsite.com
etc etc
I am obviously able to generate reports for each URL, ...
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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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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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Google Analytics - bad experiences? (esp. adult content)
I work for a rather large adult website, and we're currently not using Google Analytics. There is an internal debate going on about whether we should start using Analytics, but there is hestitation ...
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Analytics for Single Page JavaScript Webapps (Google Analytics?)
Can Google Analytics be used for tracking user behavior in a single page web application? I have used Google Analytics for typical websites but haven't used it for these type of web apps.
If not ...
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excluding URL query parameters and setting the site search query param in Google Analytics
I have a Google Analytics free account and would like to know if I strip "searchparam" out of your URLs as the site search query parameter, do I then need to specify "searchparam" in the Exclude URL ...
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Google Analytics Visitors drop-off for certain region of site only
I have an issue with the tracking on my site where I have seen a dramatic drop off of visitors to the site from a certain region. I have four regions on my site at the moment, these are UK, EU, US and ...
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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 ...
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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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Issue tracking multiple domains with Google Analytics
I have 2 domains mydomain.com and mydomain.net which I'm trying to track with the same GA code. Here are the options I turned on:
Subdomains of mydomain ON
Examples: www.mydomain.com -and- ...
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Affiliate marketing or Adsense? [closed]
Affiliate marketing vs Adsense, which worths the trouble engaging in?
Affiliate marketing, does it really work?
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I am located in a 3rdWC, does it matter for venture capitalism (US)? [closed]
Can one who lives in a third world country (with a promising project) go for a venture capital round with the likes of Ycombinator etc?
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www subdomain for my webpage
How many customer do I lose if my webpage is not accessible from www subdomain. Can anyone who has webpage analytics with large number of visitors provide me statistic how many users use ...
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Google Analytics and direct access
Does Google analytics regards remote access resources as direct access?
For example:
Suppose: mysite.com and anothersite.com
mysite.com has an image found at http://mysite.com/img/vip.jpg
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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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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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open source plugins,scripts store information? [closed]
I'm wondering if open source plugins like wordpress,drupal or jquery and many more detect for example what websites are using their plugin.
If so, is there any plugin which can detect which website ...
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How to reverse engineer the SEO on a website?
I have read this question. My question is a bit different from it. I want to know how can I reverse engineer another website that is ranking the best for some keywords. For example some website called ...
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better site analytics service / script: real time statistics and time spent on pages?
I'm looking for a site analytics software (service or script) that must be easy to comprehend. GA is simply too much complicated and it misses some key features (for me).
Missing features are:
real ...
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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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linking Google AdWords account to Google Analytics account
I have a Google Analytics account that has two profiles, one for www.ayrshireminis.com and one for www.crmpicco.co.uk. I have a Google AdWords account that I would like to link to my Google Analytics ...
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How does proxying and caching affect analytics?
What is the effect of proxying and caching at the web server on analytics reports and figures?
I have an online resource that has recently been bogged down by traffic and I want to reduce dynamic ...
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Clarity around Advanced Segment defintion
I am hoping to get some clarity around an advanced segment I created. For context, our website spans multiple domains.
For reasons I wont get into, I created an advanced segment that looks for ...
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Is it possible to track an outsourced adwords campaign?
We have a site that is paying a 3rd party to run adwords campaigns on our behalf. They do this using their own Adwords account and so we are unable to link it to our Google Analytics account. We do ...
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Best way to track multiple sites with Google Analytics
I currently have 63 websites (and counting) that I'm tracking on one Google Analytics account, and I'm starting to realize... this is becoming a bit cumbersome.
What's the best way to collect traffic ...
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What does the Quantcast __qca cookie do?
I'm reviewing the cookies served up from my website and one of them is a first-party cookie __qca which seems to be set by Quantcast.
I'm sure this is just used for tracking, but I can't find this ...
