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Google Analytics Funnel Step Regular Expression Not Working
The first step in a funnel is going to have a dynamic ending fragment. Examples:
http://mysite.com/invite/tickle-party
http://mysite.com/invite/pajama-party
http://mysite.com/invite/puppy-party
To ...
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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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How can I obtain click data to sort a list of URLs?
If you had a list of URLs and you wanted to show which of them was more important than the others (by click-through), how would you gain the number of clicks for a given link so that you could sort ...
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Which analytics solution would you recommend?
I'm working on enhancing several applications at work, and thought of installing an analytics solution to track user behavior and collect some metrics. The problem is our company is a bit sensitive ...
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How do I have a page depth > 1 on a single page website?
One of my sites is a single page that focuses on getting the user to call a phone number.
In GA, I've set up a Goal for when visitors spend more than 1 minute on the site. I realized much later that ...
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How to get metrics for use of Facebook social plugins?
I have a site with hundreds of content pages. Each content page has a Facebook like button on it. Aside from browsing to each page and reading the number next to each Like button, how can I get ...
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How can I parse Amazon S3 log files?
What are the best options for parsing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage) log files? I've turned on logging and now I have log files that look like this:
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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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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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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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How to correctly track the analytics when using iframe
In our main aspx page we have this analytics code
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1301114-2']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', ...
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Google Analytics Goals Not Adding Up With Goal Funnel
In my Google Analytics, I have a Goal URL defined for an exact match of a "thank you" page. When I view in my reports under Conversion > Funnel Visualization, it says at the bottom of my report that ...
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Implementing Google Analytics through GoDaddy/Website Tonight
Is there a way to implement Analytics with GoDaddy's "Website Tonight?" Obviously GoDaddy wants you to sell you their analytics package, but this is what the client wants. I don't see any way to ...
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Can someone suggest a site which shows today's macro web traffic
I want to compare today's traffic for my company website with today's macro web traffic. Anyone know of a site which does this?
Mostly, I want to see trends and reassure myself that my 33% drop in ...
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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 ...
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Why am I getting hits to pages with ?fb_xd_fragment=
I have added a Facebook like box and like buttons on my blog and, recently, I've been seeing on analytics a lot of hits to pages ending with ?fb_xd_fragment=.
I've found a related thread on the ...
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How can I track conversions on third party websites?
We run a number of affiliate schemes, and I would like to track which links from our website produce sales, and which do not. I can persuade our affiliates to include tracking code in their pages for ...
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Tracking Facebook “Likes”
Beyond the count posted next to the button, is there anyway to see a list of users have completed a successful “like” action, but not as the owner of the "like" button/website; or for that matter any ...
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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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SEO Google Publisher Network
I'm just about to start a new business which creates niche affiliate sites. I'm curious about the impacts to me from Google of all the URLs being hosted with the same Analytics tags, Webmaster Tool ...
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Using RegEx's in Multi-Channel Funnels in Google Analytics
For some reason, I can't get my multichannel funnel which utilizes RegEx's in the path steps to function -- it keeps coming back with no data. There are a few variables which may be holding things up, ...
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Wordpress Multisite and Google Analytics in subfolders with mapped domains
I have a wordpress multisite with sub folders. The site's subfolders are mapped to domains, which are set to primary.
I'm using the 'Google Analytics Multisite Async' code to track things.
From ...
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Google analytics event tracking doesn't show the related revenue
We're tracking clicks on certain banners on a site using synchroneous tracking:
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\''+ ga_acc_code +'\');
pageTracker._trackEvent(\'click_1\', \'Home\', \'%title%\');
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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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Determine what percentage of visitors to my site leave without taking a certain on-page action
On Rap Genius you can click the orange lyrics to read pop-up explanations:
However, I'm sure some visitors don't know that the orange lyrics are clickable. I'd like to figure out what percentage of ...
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Any free web analytics/tracking services without JavaScript?
Is there any free web analytics/tracking service that can work without JavaScript on client side?
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Web site analysis
I am looking for an opensource API for my existing website. The functionality that I am looking for is:
How many users visited the site in a particular interval of time?
What is the IP address the ...
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Google Analytics - two visitors between August 13th and September 12th
So I was recently given access to our Google Analytics, and it appears like we only had TWO visitors between August 13th and September 12th... this is for a site that typically has between several ...
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Cookie data transfer
The context is a third-party analytics service, specifically Quantcast, but the inquiries are more general in nature. Please forgive and correct me if any of my assumptions are off, and thank you in ...
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How to filter out Yottaa bots traffic in Google Analytics?
I'm using both Google Analytics and Yottaa for my website. Yottaa bots send quite a lot a traffic (relatively to the normal traffic of my website), and thus my Google Analytics is kind of flooded by ...
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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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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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What are low activity, medium activity and high activity
I received stats for a website (page views, bounce rate, etc), I can't understand what some of the columns mean.
Low activity
Medium activity
High activity
The numbers are biggest in the "Low ...
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Can't get Event Tracking To Work
I'm trying to get an event to be tracked (user registration) as a goal. I DON'T want it to be tracked by an onclick, I want it to be tracked once a PHP event is finished. Here is my code:
if(USER ...
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How to determine size of website compared to others?
How does one determine the size of a website compared to others?
So if I know the approximate number of visitors per month and per day - is there some metric that can tell me the size of a website ...
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Website analytic software compliance
I need to find a program which can crawl a site and show what various search engine spiders will parse (or not parse) and use for information.
What we are looking to do is have a program go through ...
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web analytics with path click analysis
trying to look for an web analytics service(preferably free) which gets the usual stuff, browser, hits, OS, etc.
in addition, it needs be able to track user click paths, and some how be able to tie ...
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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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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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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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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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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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When reversing a Google Analytics e-commerce transaction is the per-unit price positive or negative?
Google's own instructions for reversing an e-commerce transaction seem to contradict themselves regarding the unit price.
In the instructions it states
The item field has a positive per-unit ...
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Google Analytics: Tracking page time on site
Does anyone know how Google Analytics tracks how long a user has been on the site? When the user leaves the page that has analytic tracking code, won't the sending/receiving link be broken? How are ...
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Analytics Tracking and SEO
I'm using piwik on some of my websites and recently switched from google analytics. I find most of the stuff same on both analytics. But i always had this question in mind that what am i supposed to ...
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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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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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What analytics software to use for small Apache served website with banners not from Google
I'm planning to run a small website using Apache (and other) server(s). The website supports configuring different banners for different pages dynamically. The banners are not from Google but ...
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How do I reconcile my Google Analytics numbers with my Squarespace analytics?
According to Squarespace, in the last month I got Page Views 259, Unique Visitors 172, and Robot Hits 1,965. According to Google Analytics it was more like 346 page views, and 97 Uniques (no data on ...
