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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 analytics campaign advice
I am buying traffic from a broker not one source and sending to various landing pages.
I would like to know the best way to structure a campaign so I can find which referrering site/url is performing ...
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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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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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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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How to track outbound links in Google Analytics?
I'm having trouble tracking outbound links from my page. I can see the visits to the page in Google Analytics, but still I can't see what I'm doing wrong (of course I have replaced the UA-XXXX code ...
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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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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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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 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: 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 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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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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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 - 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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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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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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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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Google Analytics www 301 causing issues with In-Page Analytics
The closest question I could find to my problem is This one. The similarity is:
I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is ...
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Strange Google Analytics result when new site launched
I have a web site which is mainly contains a few pages, and now we revamp-ed a new site which contains several hundred pages.
We have Strange Google Analytics result, as follow:
Before:
Traffic ...
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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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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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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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What hosted analytics offers IP recording?
I'm looking for a free hosted analytic service that logs IP addresses. My first choice would have been Google Analytics, but apparently they do not offer IP logging.
Hosted software only, please. ...
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Piwik vs. Google Analytics
I run both piwik and google analytics on my site. I have noticed that the google analytics data is totally wrong. It does not seem to register any hits while piwik does. What could be wrong?
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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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clicktale.com alternative that works with https and ajax
I need to record user's actions on site for analytics purposes. The way clicktale.com doing it is just fine. But unfortunately it have problems with working over https and recording ajax events.
Is ...
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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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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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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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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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Can I combine sub domains in Google Analytics?
Can someone please let me know if I have 2 separate domain in my Google Analytics
For Example abc.com and xyz.abc.com
The second domain is 3rd party shopping cart.
Right now there is reporting for ...
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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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Track actions of paying customers
I'm looking for software that can analyze my Apache log files (or some other source) and tell me, from the visitors that actually bought something from my site, some profiling information; like time ...
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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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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 ...
