Google Analytics is a free web analytics solution provided by Google, featuring several client-side APIs, as well as REST APIs for Data Export and for Management.
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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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Google analytics - drop in traffic [duplicate]
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Google analytics - drop in traffic
Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones.
The ...
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Google analytics - drop in traffic
Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones.
The problem we are getting, and sorry for being so general here, is we ...
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Does adding google analytics improve google ranking [duplicate]
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Does Google Analytics data affect SEO?
Does adding the google analytics .js file to a page improve it's google ranking?
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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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Broken links in content reports when tracking subdomains with Google Analytics
I have a tracking code that I use on my main site and my blog, which is on a subdomain:
www.example.com
blog.example.com
I have a single profile in Google Analytics. I use advanced segments to ...
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Sudden increase in traffic from Google search domains
I'm suddenly getting a 50% increase in traffic.
The cause of this, according to my google analytics, is referral traffic from sites such as:
google.co.uk
google.com.my
google.co.jp
google.com.sg
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Google Analytics on Static Site Hosted by GAE
I finagled hosting a static site on Google App Engine at http://corbyhaas.com
The HTML when visiting the URL shows some meta information and a frame to the site's actual address: ...
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Use virtual pageviews for all goal tracking
I'm new to Google Analytics and I'm wondering if it would be cleaner to user virtual pageviews for all the goal tracking on my website instead of using a mix of regular page views and virtual ...
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Do filters in google analytics affect past data, and if not, how to apply filter to past data
I'm not a big analytics user and only just discovered I could filter out my own visits.
So I created a filter to to this, but haven't seen any changes to my past data. Maybe I create the filter ...
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Posterous instructions for adding Google Analytics do not cover the code snippet to be pasted in the <head>
The Posterous instructions for adding Google Analytics ends with pasting the Google Analytics Domain ID into the settings page.
However, the instructions given by Google tell me to paste some ...
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Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the law? Google or the developer?
So Google uses cookies when performing its usual duties of tracking users on a website. That is just it though; Google are setting the cookies and not your website as such. This is by virtue of the ...
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Google Analytics: What to feed back to clients?
We have several successful websites all of which have Google Analytics. A few clients like to see some of the stats on the website and kind of like to have a "feedback" session.
I usually go through ...
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Does Google Analytics report multiple tabs?
Visitors to a site may have several pages open at once using multiple tabs or windows.
Does Google Analytics provide any info on this behaviour?
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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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Google Analytics reporting 5% of users using IE on one site. Most other sites I track are still around 40%. What gives?
I have Google Analytics (GA) tracking set up for a number of websites, many I help friends with, did as consulting in the past, etc, and the one for the company I am working with now.
In this case, ...
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Will Google Analytics track urls that just redirect?
I have a link on my site. That links goes to another URL on my site. The code on the server sees that resource being requested and redirects the browser to another website. Will Google Analytics be ...
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Link tracking with google analytics
I am mailing a newsletter which has some links to my website. I need to keep count of these link clicks. How can i keep track of this using google analytics.
I am new to google analytics. i tried ...
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Do multiple Google Analytics profiles share the same raw data?
I have two profiles under one web site in Google Analytics. The two profiles are essentially the same except one has defined parameters to exclude (e.g. id, page... etc) so that I could aggregate the ...
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Any way to compare traffic to two pages on the same graph in Google Analytics?
Is there any way to compare the traffic to two different pages on the same graph in Google Analytics? I want to see how Page A compares to Page B over time in terms of number of pageviews.
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Google Analytics - Phone Orders Internally
I am running an ecommerce site and currently have google analytics filtering out our IP. While this gives almost absolute metrics about visitors it does not include orders processed internally ...
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Google Analytics | What are the differences between Custom Variables & User Defined?
Can I think about User Defined as just another slot of a Custom Variable (with a visitor level scope, and without a name) or it's totally different?
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google analytics: what's the date range of front page numbers?
I'm new to GA. Below is my landing page for GA, but what is the date range for the circled portion? Is it all time since GA was installed on site? eg, have there been 1,332 visits on my site since the ...
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Can I use CSS to hide the tracking gif used by Google Analytics Mobile?
I am redesigning my mobile website which uses a 1x1px Google Analytics for Mobile Websites tracking gif.
The old design displayed the image at the foot of the page, but my new design hides the gif ...
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Sudden drop in visits on Intranet site (Google Analytics)
We've had Google Analytics running against our Intranet for years now, and on the 12th August 2011 our number of Visits went down by a third and remains at the reduced figure daily. It transpired ...
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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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Is it normal to have some huge anomolies in Google Analytics site speed tracking?
I've recently started using the new _trackPageLoadTime function in Google Analytics to measure page load times. However, I have noticed a few pages appear with a huge "Average Load Time". One page is ...
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How to tell Google Analytics to ignore case in Site Search Terms?
I currently have Google Analytics on my site, and one of it's useful functions is that it gives me a nice breakdown of all the search terms people are using to search my site (my site has it's own ...
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How to correctly count pageviews?
I've been using a free 3rd party sitestats counter for years, and I would like to get rid of the external party.
For this simple thing I'm only interested in pageviews (other stats I use google ...
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Sharing Google Analytics between a Drupal and a Wordpress installation
Given the needs of a client, he uses wordpress as a publishing platform; The news section of the website
and drupal as the community/classifieds section of his website.
Each cms is on its own ...
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Track/View new incoming links with Google Analytics
Is there a way to track new incoming links to my website?
When I visit "Traffic Sources -> Referring Sites" in my Google Analytics account I have a list with 5,391 sites so its quiet hard to discover ...
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Google Analytics - SSI/SQL Injection Exploits in Hostname
Today, in Google Analytics I reviewed a list of all hostnames used to access my site. Among the hostnames I expected to see, I also noticed a number of items that are clearly hacking attempts, such ...
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Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup
I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I ...
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Does google consider bounce rate, if the user right click open in a new tab and continue on google clicking some more link?
Does google consider bounce rate, if the user right click open in a new tab and continue on google clicking some more link ?
Is this correct?
In my opinion the work for bounce rate is to determine, ...
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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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Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup [duplicate]
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Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup
I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain ...
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LinkedIn Advert stats not matching with my Google Analytics data
I received a voucher from LinkedIn which gives me $50 worth of Advertising, and as I've started out on my own as a web designer/developer I thought this would be a good opportunity to get some extra ...
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What are the pros of installing multiple user behavior tracking frameworks on the same website?
What are the pros of installing G
Google Analytics
Webtrends
Quantcast
.. and several other user behavior tracking frameworks all in same website? Don't they give same set of results?
I just know ...
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Google analytics tracking code for different profiles?
I have set up two different profiles in my Google analytics account for my website. The reason for having two different profiles is that my site is completely divided in two different user groups (not ...
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Google Analytics tracking on the same domain account through an iframe
I have written an advertising system for a client that serves adverts on one website (say, www.adhost.com) as a small HTML page and a second website (say, www.addisplay.com) pulls this page in as an ...
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ClickThrough on Google Webmaster Tool and Traffic Source in Google Analytics [closed]
I'm new to SEO and website management, but eager to learn. I manage a newly revamped site and I'm tracking it on Google Analytics and in Google Webmaster tools.
The Webmaster tools show that I get ...
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Retrieving Monthly Hits From Google Analytics
What I want to do is grab the last 5 months including the current months hits for that month.
I have only just copied the tracking code and plugged it into my site but after that I'm not sure what to ...
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New visits count disparity on a month old site in Google Analytics
I launched a new website less than a month ago but the stats on "new visits" doesn't appear to match with "absolute unique visitors".
If I look at the dashboard, it shows 2040 visits, 956 unique ...
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What are you using for getting stats about your web app? G. Analytics or other solution? [closed]
if you are building your own web application, what are you using for monitoring of visitors. Are you getting this information from Google Analytics? Or do you prefer your own solution?
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Using Google Analytics on a SaaS webapp with custom domains
Async Google Analytics works with multiple trackers just fine. However, I wonder if it will work as good in the following scenario.
We're developing a SaaS webapp where users can use custom domains ...
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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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Tracking multiple domains and subdomains on one analytics profile
I'm looking to set up Google Analytics for a system we have. Essentially, we have a multi tenant system where everything shares a single code base but might have extra pages or not.
What I think I'm ...
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Google Analytics Error?
I have Google Analytics on my webpage. The reports show properly as far as I know. But when going through settings I saw this:
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Notice the date => I have checked and ...
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How may I provide Google Analytics access to a 3rd party?
I have a marketing guy who is helping me with marketing my website. I want to give him access to my GA page so that he can see the numbers, for performance monitoring etc.
Does anyone know how I can ...
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Tracking with Google Analytics both a page and a file linked from it
I have a page located on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) that links to an executable. The download of the executable is correctly tracked by google analytics (following these indications).
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