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Any drawbacks by including Google Analytics in your main js file?
I'm using MVC that is compressing and minifying all my js files into one file so basically there is only one request.
As far as I see every page has Google Analytics code below their js includes. If ...
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Google Analytics cookie across SagePay checkout
We use SagePay's Server integration for our online payments. We use Google Analytics to track activity on our website and Google Ecommerce tracking to log transactions.
In Google Analytics, under the ...
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Tracking logged in vs. non-logged in users in Google Analytics
I am building a social media site that is similar is structure to twitter and facebook.com where unauthenticated users who go to https://mysite.com will see a login + sign-up page, and authenticated ...
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Tracking Outgoing Links With Google Analytics Events
I've been trying to track clicks on external links on my website using the events tracking method.
So I've got my Google Analytics code setup before body ends as shown below (note: quotes have been ...
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Is there an elegant way to track multiple domains under separate accounts with google analytics?
I have a situation where a content management system uses the same template for multiple websites with different domain names and I can't make a separate template for each. However, each website needs ...
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Sudden drop of pageviews/visit and increase of bounce rate in Analytics
Google analytics stats:
04 june 2012
Visits: 4.423
Unique visitors: 3.558
Pageviews: 77.352
Pageviews / visit: 17,49
Visit length: 00:06:26
Bounce rate: 1,09%
05 june 2012
Visits: 4.652
Unique ...
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Someone else is using our Google Analytics Tracking code number. What do we do?
After looking over our Analytics today, I realized that another website is also using our same tracking code #, which is cause quite a few incorrect hits to our Analytics.
Are there any ways to ...
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How to prevent Google Website Optimizer from making Google Analytics spike Direct Traffic and lower Bounce Rate?
I am using Google Website Optimizer (GWO) and Google Analytics.
Whenever a person (Google Website Optimizer) does a javascript redirect, Google Analytics will change the referrer. When the referrer ...
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GA and /outbound/javascript:void(0) bounce rate
My Google Analytics reports a bounce rate very high for outbound/javascript:void(0) but I don't understand what this URL is. I use Drupal, and in the HTML code there isn't this URL.
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How to track js conditional outbound redirects with Google Analytics?
We work with an affiliate program where you need to use different affiliate links for some specific countries. Because of that our links in the content are pointed to an internal page ...
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Can Google Analytics track raw data?
I've never used Google Analytics (GA), so maybe this is possible. But, a friend of mine had someone create a site for him for quite a lot of money. Anyway, my friend wanted the guy to add another ...
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How to interpret Events from Unique Events in Google Analytics?
I'm trying to add some javascript triggered Google Analytics events to a website that is already working with GA.
I've included the following beneath the standard GA script (new ga.js script).
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Does Google Analytics track links that use onclick=“parent.location='Something.html' ”?
I am using onclick="parent.location='#'" to make a table into a link, but will Google Analytics see this as a link or will it cause mayhem in the reports?
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How do you exclude yourself from Google Analytics on your website using cookies?
I'm trying to set up an exclusion filter with a browser cookie, so that my own visits to my don't show up in my Google Analytics. I tried 3 different methods and none of them have worked so far. I ...
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What could cause analytics bounce rate to go from ~30% to ~100% in a day?
A month ago, my site had about a 30% bounce rate. One day I pushed some changes to the site, and all the sudden my bounce rate shot straight up to around 98% and my average time on site plumetted to ...
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Does Google Analytics allow custom variables to have a value of zero?
I was interested in tracking the versions of QuickTime my users have installed. As suggested in an earlier question, I have set up a custom variable and built a report around it. Here is my code for ...
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What could artificially increase the bounce rate reported in Google Analytics?
Since deploying Janrain Engage to our website, which includes a javascript snippet that is loaded from their servers, I've noticed about 10-15% increase in our bounce rate. I think this is artificial ...
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Does placing Google Analytics code in an external file affect statistics?
I'm working with an outside software vendor to add Google Analytics code to their web app, so that we can track its usage. Their developer suggested that we place the code in an external ".js" file, ...
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How do i properly use CustomVars in google analytics?
How do i properly use custom vars in google analytics? I used the code below and here is what i notice
i only seen 'one' being in the get request
After 24 hours only 'one' showed up
After commenting ...
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Why would you use document.location.protocol instead of plain // prefixed urls?
For instance Google Analytics uses document.location.protocol in the boilerplate for tracking:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', ...
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Multiple google analytics instances on a page?
My company creates (and hosts) sites for many different clients. We allow clients to send us tracking code, including Google Analytics, and we put them on the page.
We would also like to include our ...
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What is the benefit of using Google Analytics' asynchronous tracking code compared to the non-asynchronous code?
What, specifically, does the asynchronous code accomplish or allow that the older code does not?
