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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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. ...
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Import and edit AdWords cost data
I am trying to follow the instructions at this Analytics help page, and I cannot find the "Apply cost sources" box required in step 7. Has this been moved? Is it still necessary to link my Analytics ...
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Google Analytics ID web/mobile app exchange possible?
If I have a website with Google Analytics ID UA-xxxx, and now I want to develop an iOS app related to my site, can I use the same id UA-xxxx or do I have to create a new ad-hoc one?
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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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Tracking users behaviour - with or without Google Analytics
If I understand correctly the following (point & from GA TOS):
PRIVACY . You will not (and will not allow any third party to) use the Service to track or collect personally identifiable ...
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Huge surge in direct traffic from one particular town
Last month I noticed that the direct visits on our site have increased by nearly 150% whilst bounce rate is also considerably up.
After drilling down further I can see that we have had nearly 2000 ...
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Is traffic coming from url shorteners treated as direct?
Traffic coming form shortened urls like bit.ly, do they show up in Google Analytics as direct or do they keep their real referrer?
Ex. If someone types in a bit.ly link it counts as direct, but if ...
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How to track specific Referrals with Google Analytics
How do I have to alter a Referral link to my website to specifically track it with Google Analytics? I already discovered the URL Builder but isn't there are shorter way?
For example:
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Google Analytics - report with unrelated dimensions?
It is possible to include two unrelated dimensions in a report? For example I would like to do:
<Filter: completed goal 1>
<(AND) Filter: referral traffic>
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How can # of unique visitors be more than # of visits?
I am confused as heck. When looking at a few individual pages, I am seeing weird results I hope someone can help explain.
I am doing manual standard reports, and not creating or using a widget. For ...
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Is it legal for a developer to claim ownership of a clients' analytics data? [closed]
We are working with a client who is having his analytics data held hostage by his previous developers. They are claiming that their contract states that they own the data, but I'm wondering if showing ...
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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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How can I tell Google Analytics to not use cookies for my sub domain?
I have my web site at example.com, and i have also setup a sub domain for serving static content at static.example.com.
On my web pages I'm using Google Analytics, so it will attach its cookies to all ...
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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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How do I find information on who links to my sites?
I'm trying to figure out if there's a free way to get information on back links to my site.
I've had webmaster tools and Google Analytics set up for years. But I can't find access to data about site ...
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Google Analytics: Tracking mobile visits on a different top level domain
I have set up tracking for my website with the async snippet, the website is running on example.com. Now I want to add Analytics tracking to my (perl-based) mobile website example.mobi. I have added ...
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Multiple Google Analytics code for url under same domain
I have one domain: www.example.com, and www.example.com/sales. The analytic code on both urls are different.
So when I login to my Google account it displays two separate analytic accounts. on ...
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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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Google Analytics: Accounts, Properties and Profiles
When working with Google Analytics it seems that groups of properties can be defined using accounts, and groups of profiles per property. Though there seems to be some overlap and I would like to know ...
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Google Analytics: How can I track between http:// and https:// profiles for a domain?
I'm trying to set up tracking on a project that I'm working on.
The main site is at http://www.example.com/
The order page is at https://www.example.com/index.php
Currently they have two ...
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Most efficient and SEO & Google Analyitics Friendly way to redirect
I am looking for the most efficient way to redirect users to different web pages on my server using a keyword off of the main domain.
So http://www.example.com/keyword might take you to a longer URL ...
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Tracking based on URL referral?
Users on my site are given unique URL's for me to then track how many people they have referred to my site.
IE: http://www.example.com/FQ3DL (FQ3DL being the unique code/url)
The first thing I'd ...
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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 - www version and non-www version
We have been using Google Analytics for a site http://example.com (non-www version). In a recent update, we have moved the site to http://www.example.com (www-version) with a 301 redirect from the ...
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Connecting keywords with location
Is there a way to connect the keyword with the location withing Google Analytics?
I would like to be able to see what cities are searching for what terms.
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Google analytics and 301 redirects
We have a multilingual website and the first page redirects to specific language page using 301 redirect based on some logic.
For example: http://mysite.com/ redirects to http://mysite.com/en/
The ...
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Can I combine sub domains in Google Analytics?
Can someone please let me know if I have 2 separate domain in my Google Analytics
For Example abc.com and xyz.abc.com
The second domain is 3rd party shopping cart.
Right now there is reporting for ...
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Google Analytics underestimating pageviews and visitors [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Very few visitors on Analytics: incorrect setting?
Google Analytics reports are underestimating pageviews comparing to my server logs for around 40%. What could be the ...
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How to track Blogger and Sites subdomains in Google Analytics?
I am using Google Apps in my domain. In this domain I have a Blogger blog and a Google Sites website. I have setup Google Analytics to track my website and it works fine. I also track blog visits and ...
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Google Analytics - Goal not being logged
I have a URL on my site where a user is re-directed to once an order is completed. I can see the URL showing up the the Analytics logs, but the goal is not being logged.
My the complete URL is ...
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Google Analytics - Goals setup regular expression match
I have urls like the following:
http://example.com/item/1
http://example.com/item/1341
http://example.com/item/33324
I want to set up a funnel in Google Analytics and I understand that I can use a ...
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Unable to use anchor hash tag if using Google Analytics utm
If I want to user to go a particular section of my webpage, I will use
http://www.mywebsite.com/help_faq.html#contribution
However, sometimes, I need to track where user come from, if I use
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Proper way to move Google Analytics code from one site to another one
Currently, I use Google Analytics for www.example.com. example.com is also added to GA and shows "Tracking not installed".
Recently I added rewrite rule (301 redirect) to redirect all requests from ...
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Google analytics tracking www and no-www domains
Our website is set up to direct all traffic for www.example.com to example.com with a line in the htaccess file. With Google analytics new in page analytics feature we are thinking of removing the ...
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Can I make Google Analytics set its cookies on just a subdomain? (I.e. www.domain.com, not domain.com)
I’m using Google Analytics on a site — let’s call it www.domain.com.
My Google Analytics website profile is for www.domain.com, and my only report is set up for www.domain.com. Requests to domain.com ...
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What kind of web traffic doesn't show up in Google Analytics?
We are advertising through a display ad network, and found that the traffic they claimed to be sending to our website wasn't showing up through Google Analytics.
As an experiment, we set up a test ...
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Is there a disqus-like comment system that does not load google analytics? [closed]
I am not using google analytics on my blog out of respect for user privacy (I don't care to make my blog a data-collection tool for Google). I included Disqus (yes I know they track as well).
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Tracking between blog and webshop on same domain
I have a webshop (Magento) on mysite.com.
I have a blog (wordpress.org) setup on mysite.com/blog
My goal is to setup tracking in such a way that I can see data for the blog and separate data for the ...
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How can I create a Google Analytics report to show Date-Network source-Keyword-Traffic Source?
I want to do a report that looks at data for a week with the following columns:
Date-Network source-Keyword-Traffic Source
But no matter what I do, I cannot get all of that. I can get Network ...
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How to set up Google DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers) for a site?
I have a website and I have an AdSense account as well.
I have integrated AdSense and ads are also getting displayed (480 x 60). Somewhere I read that I can manage the ads that are being shown in my ...
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Google Analytics: Disable tracking for country/region
I'm using google analytics on a small business website from germany. Today i noticed 86 visitors from Palo Alto on a Sunday. No matter where they come from and why there are visiting the site, they ...
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Where can I track campaigns on Analytics?
Trying to track campaigns on analytics, I was able to create those but not sure where on Analytics page can I check the stats.
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Run Google Analytics reports across multiple accounts / properties
So I have a single login for Google Analytics that tracks multiple accounts with multiple properties as so.
Account 1
Property A
Property B
Property C
Property D
Account 2
Property E
Property F
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Track actions of paying customers
I'm looking for software that can analyze my Apache log files (or some other source) and tell me, from the visitors that actually bought something from my site, some profiling information; like time ...
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Google Analytics Kiosk: URL that compares current month to last, and is permalink
We have a kiosk that runs all the time. We display the overview report with this month vs last month comparison. But I have to come in and refresh the page and reset the period every day.
Is there ...
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Google Analytics - Showing multiple site stats at once
Is there a way in google analytics to add multiple sites to and show all the stats together? So like the graphs and total visits/unique hits all combined for all the sites added to the google ...
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Tracking multiple domains under subdomain
I need to setup a Google Analytics code for one website with multiple domains, but they are in form of
subdomain.**foo**.com
subdomain.**bar**.com
Subdomain is the same (it doesn't really matter ...
