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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Removing GA from Sites [duplicate]
My GA code is being used by some other website, which is spoiling my data.
Is there a way to block that site from my Google Analytics account?
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Does Google Analytic count mismatching/unconfigured URLs?
Say url www.mysite.com is registered in Google Analytics and the tracking ID is UA-12345678-90.
What happens if another site with URL www.anothersite.com uses this ID too? Does analytic count visits ...
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How much traffic isn't reported by Google Analytics?
We keep finding inconsistencies between data in Analytics and the reports we get from other sources. In general, we notice about 40% less pageviews in Analytics than elsewhere:
Correlating number of ...
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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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Wrong data on referral traffic
We are losing data on referral visitors, and we cannot identify what's wrong.
Within a certain period, there were 3000 clicks on a banner on our partner's site.
(according to data from our partner)
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How to monitor traffic from domains forwarding?
I have suppose 10 domains all redirecting( using godaddy forwarding) to example.com. Is there a way I can monitor traffic from these 10 domains ? Probably some how in Google Analytics or some other ...
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Google Analytics Experiment — How to test shopping cart
We have:
GET landing.html (then select a production)
POST cart1.php (then select options)
POST cart2.php (then enter billing info)
POST cart3.php (will process payment and then ...
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Why are URLs with my domain name at the end showing up in analytics?
I have a multi-language WordPress site that has been live since the last 3 months and today when I checked Analytics, I saw a lot of weird URLs:
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Is it possible to use only one SEO tool that finishes your job completely [closed]
Is there anyone that uses only one SEO tool that finishes every thing he works on. What is that tool, is that a perfect SEO tool. Could that be even closely true.
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track browse history of your visitors
I would like to know, what the typical behavior of users on my website is.
So I need to track a bunch of stuff, like what pages each user visits, than save them in a database and be able to view the ...
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How does Google Analytics consider traffic?
Q1)If any automated bot visits my domain will Google Analytics consider it as traffic?
What all factors does the Google Analytics consider to be legit traffic?
Q2)If a user visits xyz.domain.com ...
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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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In Google Analytics, given I have a specific page, how do I track where the user went to next?
Note: I'm an analytics "n00b".
I have a specific page on my website, say [/users/register].
Where in Google Analytics do I go to see where visitors to that page went to next?
I saw that, for that ...
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Cumulative visit by hours in Google Analytics
I am tring to compare 2 different days hour by hour, (but cumulatively)
For example comparing the total visitor count by 12 o'clock today, with yesterday. How can I find out what was the total count ...
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What search statistics are most reliable?
I'm doing some research into the SEO of one my websites and looking at different keywords and the search traffic they generate.
Let's say I have a search term I'm ranked number one for a keyword and ...
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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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What are Mozilla compatible Agents in Google Analytics?
When I create a pivot table showing the number of visits for each type of browsers and regions, here is what I obtain:
As you can see, regions such as Northen America the number of visits ...
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Missing data for specific language in Google Analytics
We have a multilingual website, Swedish (default), English, Norwegian.
Google Analytics tracking code (the same code for all languages) is present on all pages.
Problem: We get data for the default ...
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How can I distinguish between two files with the same name in Google Analytics?
I've got two index.html files for different subdomains (www. and gametimer.smartersoftware.de). I have enabled sub-domain tracking in Google Analytics and posted the corresponding script.
However, I ...
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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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GA is not tracking in renewed site
A week ago I renewed my site to simple PHP site to -> DRUPAL 7. I've even transferred the GA script using DRUPAL GA plugin. However, yet GA doesn't track the visitors in my new site.
Could anyone ...
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Interpretation of Goals relative to Visits and Pageviews in Google Analytics
I am stumped on some of the data I am seeing.
The image below summarizes the data that I am pulling from the API into Tableau.
In GA, we have the URL goal setup for the page shown. I am ...
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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 page events monitoring and analysis
I have read the Google page event documentation, but I am not sure I understand it correctly. I am new to Google analytics, and I have two questions:
Once I have google analytics enabled for my site ...
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Does Link Target using “Blank” cause increased bounce rate in analytics report?
I am just wondering whether it is so and when I should use target="_blank" and when not? I used to use target="_blank" for most of the links of my site and in few places on net, I found people talking ...
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What is the difference between Visitor and Unique Visitor?
As the title says; What is the difference between Visitor and Unique Visitor?
A visitor is a user with a cookie for one browser, as long as that cookie is valid, isn't that unique enough? If not, how ...
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What's an acceptable “Avg. Page Load Time”?
Is there any industry rule of thumb for what's considered an unacceptable load time v. an OK one v. a blistering fast one?
We're just reviewing some Google Analytics data and getting 0.74 Avg. Page ...
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View traffic source on google analytics?
I noticed there was a sudden spike in traffic in my Google analytics. Is there a way to possibly identify where the traffic was from? It only happened on a specific date though.
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Should I use the same Google Analytics code for my website and native mobile app?
My website is a forum. The native mobile app's only function is to access the forum and provide a better experience than can be provided through the browser.
Given that the same content is being ...
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Find out where a viewer comes from with Google Analytics
Does anyone know if it is possible to determine which company a visitor to your site comes from? For example, if a person is sitting in the offices at Coca-cola or IBM or whatever and visits your ...
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Different between GA avg time on page vs. avg visit duration
I'm newer to using Google Analytics, and I have a question about a page in my website I'm looking at.
For a specific page in my website, the avg. time on page is 1:08. But, when I find this page ...
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Excessive visit count but extremely high bounce rate
We recently had surge of visits on our site, usually they are between 30-40, we suddenly got about 340 visits with about as many unique visitors. However, the bounce rate shot up to 96%. It was only ...
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Google Analytics for sites with SSL protected sections
Google Analytics account creation interface asks whether the URL of the site starts with HTTP or HTTPS. However my site is SSL protected in its payment pages only.
Is it possible to have GA cover ...
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Using Google Analytics to establish busiest time of day
I am trying to find a way to establish my sites busiest hour, but when using the "hour of the day" metric, each seems to have a date specific code, rather than just a number from 0-23, as I would ...
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how did Google Analytics kill my site?
Yesterday I created a google analytics profile for one of my sites and included the JS block in the layout template. What happened next was very strange. Within about 2 minutes, the site had become ...
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Problem to stop Google-Analytics from tracking my website
In June 2012 I added my website (a blog that I host on my own server) to Google-Analytics. In January 2013 I decided to use Piwik instead of Google-Analytics.
So I removed my website from the Google ...
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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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How to see the amount of visits from mobile bookmarks
For my website I want to see in Google Analytics how many people have been visiting my website through a bookmark icon on their phone's screen. This way I can learn how many people have bookmarked my ...
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How do I select last event value of the day in Google Analytic
I'm trying to select last event value of the day in Google Analytics.
The problem is that Event Value column shows the sum of all events of the specific date,
but I would like to see only the last ...
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Tracking visitors' choices with Google Analytics
I have been asked to make it possible to track visitors' choices in a 10-step product mockup generator in order to find out which options are most popular.
All we really need is to be able to compare ...
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Proper Google Analytics setup for AJAX heavy page?
Lets say I have a website with a few pages. The purpose of each of those pages is to display live statistics for a real world event (for example, sports scores). Every 60 seconds, an Ajax call is made ...
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Unusual Spike in Traffic
My site received unusual spike of traffic today and they are all from the US, which is outside of my market. My site normally gets about 70-80 daily entrances according to Google Analytics, but there ...
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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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What is the best way to find products sold by metro area
I am trying to figure out which products are being sold the most within a certain metro area. I can drill down by state within Adobe Omniture, but the goods we sell are largely connected to climate ...
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google analytics for wordpress
I have a problem in Google Analytics and I don't know what is missing in it. I added the script file to my WordPress website header like this one:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = ...
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AdWords traffic not (properly) reflected in Analytics
I have an AdWords account, which was set to use Auto-tagging of URLs.
When looking at the Analytics account for that site, I couldn't find any reference to AdWords traffic either in the Advertising ...
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Why are there differences in data between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools?
Why are there differences between Google Analytics And Google Webmaster Tools in external links data? Generally this data do not coincide with each other.
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What does “not set” mean Landing Page on Google Analytics
On the page Google Analytic > Content > Site Content > Landing Pages.
What does not set as a landing page mean?
User's visit on the website must land somewhere, and that landing page must ...
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Why would Unique Visitors and Unique Visitors (All Visits) be different in Google Analytics?
The Unique Visitors metric on the Google Analytics home dashboard is showing different values to when 'All Visitors' is selected as an advanced segment of Unique Visitors.
My understanding is that ...
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Number of hits report in Google Analytics
Can I create a custom report in google analytics to show me the total number of hits on a specific website? By "hit" I mean any item on the page that needs to load in order to view the page correctly. ...
