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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Not able to track traffic on subdomain using Google Analytics
I'm trying to track traffic for my sub-domain, but it's not happening.
This is how it's set up.
My partner has a domain called sub1.partner.com. This domain points to partner1.mydomain.com. The idea ...
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Analysing Bounce Rate and Time on Page
I'm working on an eCommerce site and there's a perceived problem with the bounce rates on product pages. The best performing page (in terms of views), tends to have a very high bounce rate, at about ...
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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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Should I measure visits or unique events?
I have set up custom variables a couple of months ago. Basically it tracks categories of pages, much like the example in the docs.
Now I want to get a list of the most popular categories. I've ...
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How do you change the url that Google Analytics' In-Page Analytics displays?
In Google Analytics, from the dashboard, clicking 'Content' in the left hand pane, and then clicking 'In-Page Analytics' brings up an awesome interface for seeing where users have actually clicked in ...
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How should I track multi-valued page attributes (e.g. tags) using custom variables?
Our pages can each have many tags, e.g 'football', 'sms', 'nsfw', etc.. which we would like to track in google analytics.
We're already tracking things like category using google analytics custom ...
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Google Analytics - need to let users know they're being anonymously tracked?
I'm using google analytics in an android application via their sdk. Do I need to show end users any terms of service since analytics are being used, ie. notify them that their usage is being ...
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External link tracking when opening the link in a new window in Google Analytics?
OK, so this seems like a really simply problem, but I have yet to find a solution that accomplishes the following:
Opens the link in a new window
Tracks the event in GA (obviously)
Doesn't trigger ...
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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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How to track HTTP and HTTPS from the same Google Analytics account?
I have a website with tutorials and a discuss forum. The website load on http protocol and the forum load with https for security reasons.
For both of them I run the default Google Analytics code, but ...
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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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Google analytics iframe code measuring visitor as two visitors
I'm trying to measure visitors in an iframe and the site containing the iframe.
What I would like is that visitors clicks in the iframe are seen being from the same visitor as the containing site, but ...
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Does Google Analytics track visits via Tumblr dashboard?
I wondered if GA tracks visits to my Tumblr accessed through Tumblr dashboard by other Tumblr users. And if it can track visitors who only view my blog via the Tumblr dashboard.
My GA stats are 320 ...
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How to use Google Analytics to track a development and production versions of the same site on different servers?
I have a website with two versions, one for production and one for development (testing new features). All of the code is under version control and the websites are on separate servers.
Currently, I ...
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Correct configuration of multiple Analytics trackers per page, spanning domains and subdomains
My company publishes sites on a somewhat convoluted domain structure, and we're having trouble getting accurate numbers in Analytics when we have multiple trackers on the page.
We publish under two ...
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Google Analytics setting cookies on static content despite being on entirely separate domain
I recently decided to comply with the YSlow recommendation that static content is hosted on a cookieless domain.
As I already use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my website—on which ...
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Huge difference between Facebook Ad Click figures and Apache log requests
We're running a facebook ad campaign for our business but there seems to be a huge discrepancy between the number of clicks registered and the number of requests made with "facebook.com" in the HTTP ...
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Tracking a single page on another domain in Google Analytics
I have access to edit a 'mini-site' hosted on our organisation's parent site. I'd like to track this page using Google Analytics, however I don't have access to the front page so I can't verify this ...
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Tracking an iframed page hosted on another domain with Google Analytics
I've followed Google's instructions on tracking iframed content on another domain (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingSite.html#trackingIFrames) as best I can, yet there is ...
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More than 5 custom variables across multiple websites using Google Analytics
We have multiple websites using the same Google Analytics account number so we can track visitors across multiple websites. One of these websites has set 5 custom variables. We want to introduce a new ...
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Why does Google Analytics show false referrals?
Ever since Google revamped their Analytics interface I've been noticing a weird "bug" while viewing the "Real-Time" overview area. From this area I can obviously see live stats of visitors to my ...
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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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Tracking referrals between profiles on the same domain in Google Analytics
I have a website at mydomain.com that uses Analytics.
I have a blog that resides at mydomain.com/blog/, which also uses Analytics
They are on different profiles. The main site uses something like:
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Help with tracking sub domain
I currently have my app's marketing/external website on the root level, e.g. http://example.com
My web app itself is hosted at: http://app.example.com
What's the best strategy to set-up Google ...
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Google Analytics and Web Optimizer Code creating double site visits
My website currently has a Google Asynchronous tracking code at the top of every page and the home page has an A/B test running on it. This is causing GA to add 2 visits for every 1 to the home page. ...
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How do I track Yahoo Adwords campaigns in Google Analytics with cost data?
I'm currently diving into Yahoo's adwords program and am wondering if its possible to track their ad campaigns in Google Analytics with cost data so I can trace my costs to my revenue. Has anyone ...
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How does Google Analytics calculate the number of visitors
If I visit a site 100 times a day (from one IP) does Google Analytics track that as 100 unique visitors?
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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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Why is Google showing up as a referral instead of a search engine in Google Analytics?
In Google Analytics, why does Google show up sometimes under an organic medium, and other times as a referral? (They frequently have the same landing page.)
As I understand (and I'm just as likely ...
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Does watching a long video affect bounce rate?
I'm assuming the following things are a "bounce":
Clicking on a link to a page on a different web site
Closing an open window or tab
Typing a new URL
Clicking the "Back" button to leave the site
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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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Can I use Google Analytics to count QuickTime installations?
By default, Google Analytics produces reports on which versions of Flash and Java my users have. Is it possible to set up a report on which versions of QuickTime (if any)
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Organizing google Analytics accounts
It seems that when logged in to Google Analytics, you can create "Accounts", as well as "Profiles". Websites can be tracked under each of these.
If you are wanting to track multiple websites, some ...
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Need a non-technical end user Google Analytics guide, suggestions?
What I'm looking for: Super simply, basic intro to using Google Analytics target to non-technical end users.
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Google Analytics Event Tracking. When is too much?
I have been given a project document that outlines a huge amount of event tracking through Google Analytics.
It has things like:
Carousel navigation events
jQuery tab clicks
Random link clicks
Menu ...
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Google Analytics API - Super simple? [closed]
Google Analytics API - Too complicated?
I've read about Google Analytics API but heard of others that it is a bit complicated to make it work. I use PHP.
Copy / paste example
My question is if ...
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Hash based commerce website
I'm planning for an e-commerce website based on ajax load and hash instead of query. I wonder how this effects search engins crawler and if it would, what is the best way to do it?
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Cookies Law- How will this affect my web Reports?
I would like to understand how the Cookies Law, will affect the web analytic reporting? Is there another way of tracking?
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Does Google Analytics only track domain names?
I have a Google Analytics (GA) account for an existing site. We're developing a new site on a different live server, and I believe GA is tied to the domain name, not the IP address of the website. ...
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Google Analytics click count
If someone with the same IP click on our site 10 times or more from the search result page to our site, how would Google Analytics treat this situation?
Would Google Analytics restrict a user who ...
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How do I remove accounts from my analytics dashboard?
How do I remove accounts from my analytics dashboard where other admins have deleted me from the profile? The account appears on the list with no data and now discernible way to remove it.
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Google Analytics regular expression to indicate TODAY?
in Google Analytics version 5 (latest beta) there's an option to add a custom filter
I want to show only data of today.
Only Show -> Date -> Exactly matching ->
and then I have the option to fill ...
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How to exclude myself from Google Website Optimizer results?
I have a website on which I run Google Website Optimizer (A/B tests) and Google Analytics.
We have automated tests that check some web pages and I am worried that this might interfere with Google ...
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Why Google may decrease PR of a site?
I found that Google decreased PR of my site and wonder why.
Except recent submit of my programs to download sites and change of Google Analytics to asynchronous code there were no other changes to ...
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Can I use Google Analytics with commercials from other networks?
Does Google Analytics allow me to configure and evaluate statistics like CTR etc. for commercials from networks other than Google Adsense?
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What are the boundaries of a day in google analytics?
I thought initally it would be the timezone I have configured, however, this does not seem to reflect the true activity. Or is it only the delay of the data analysis that creates this feeling?
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Clarity around Advanced Segment defintion
I am hoping to get some clarity around an advanced segment I created. For context, our website spans multiple domains.
For reasons I wont get into, I created an advanced segment that looks for ...
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How do I track multiple domain in Google Analytics?
I have 2 unrelated websites with different content.
mydomain1.com
mydomain2.com
I already have a Google Analytics account for http://mydomain1.com. Now I want to add my second domain ...
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SEO friendly way of linking/redirecting 2 domains to 1 - shoes example ;)
Suppose I have a shoe shop with website: myshoeshop.com. I generate some traffic, but only 10 visitors per week. I then realize that green shoes are very popular and what everybody searches for.
Of ...
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Google Analytics: Enabled 'Track site search results' , where do I see list with search queries
I enabled 'Track site search results' on Google Analytics and put also the queryparameter. Now my question is, where can I simply look at the list that is gathered with all the searches that are done ...
