For questions related to analytics methods and tools.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1answer
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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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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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1answer
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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 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 - include filter not 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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1answer
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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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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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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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KPI's to measure online brand image
A company is going to launch an event and a series of online related content that will be published on it's website and promoted online and offline to it's customers and leads. The event will last for ...
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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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Difficult Google Analytics tracking problem: Existing setup for multiple domains all using the same account code
Bit of a strange one: an account I'm looking at appears to be set up incorrectly and I'm trying to puzzle through what implications it has for existing data in Google Analytics.
Here's the setup: ...
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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 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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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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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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Tracking untagged adwords visits in Google Analytics
In the event an AdWords campaign doesn't tag its ads, is there any way to identify the traffic (I know I won't get the low-level type of reporting available through properly tagged campaigns, I just ...
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Help Creating a Google Analytics Funnel for Check out process
have a funnel question.
I am currently working on tracking (through GA) guest and logged in member activity once they get to my sites shopping cart. But need help with setting up funnels. ...
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Logging what was in the content of a page
I'm one of the people working on a Java based website that has the apache httpd in front of it.
The content on the pages is migrating towards personalizing the content and as such just about every ...
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Tracking website hits from 3rd party mobile app
Our business has ads on the local news channels website and mobile app. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to track if a visitor came to your website from a 3rd party app?
