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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Google Analytics and multiple sites with combined stats [duplicate]
I have about 40 sites (similar structure just different verticals/content). Example: site1.com site2.com
Is it possible to see the stats of all sites within one property?
I was thinking of doing ...
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Setting Up CDN…beginner questions
I am using MediaTemple web hosting and they are using Edgecast's CDN network. I am planning to join CDN service, so I read through the guide, but I am confused about the 'Update your code' section:
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Do you still get a bounce in Google Analytics if all the linked pages/content is loaded dynamically?
Google Analytics describes a bounce as a user that visits and leaves before after their first page.
But if your site is a one page site, with content loaded dynamically using JavaScript, you could ...
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Unique Visitor count increases when pages are excluded
For a date range greater than one day the total number of Unique Visitors is greater when I exclude pages ending in "foo" than when I look at all pages. The difference is ~4%. Why would this be ...
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Site too large to officially use Google Analytics?
We just got this email from the Google Analytics team:
We love that you love our product and use it as much as you do. We have observed however, that a website you are tracking with Google ...
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Why does StatCounter show less unique visitors than my Apache access log?
StatCounter shows yesterday as seeing 10,611 unique visitors to my site.
I wrote a script that counted the number of unique IP addresses in yesterday's Apache access log. It counted 14,190 unique IP ...
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Define page load time
Google Analytics reports our site to have an average page load time of about 4.5-6 seconds. Naturally, this sounds as a concern.
However, we never see these page load times when the page is ...
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Sites bandwidth exceeded but no increase in traffic?
One of my clients sites has exceeded its 6000mb monthly bandwidth quota. I checked Analytics and the site has not had an unreasonable amount of visitors (only 700 in the last month). The site has no ...
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All traffic to my site is now zero in the last week [closed]
The site used to get 50-100 visits per day. As of the 5th of Feb, all traffic has dropped to zero (including referrals and direct traffic). Not even one visit!
Webmaster Tools says there have been no ...
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Google analytics: how many visitors have visited n times?
I'm trying to guess how many loyal users I have by counting the number of people that have visited the site 10 times. How can I answer this question with Google Analytics?
"Visitor Loyalty" is a ...
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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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Using Google Analytics to Track Stats Only for Visitors (Not Visits) Who Converted
I'm having trouble setting up the right Google Analytics reporting for my website.
I want to know the "Total Visits", "Pages / Visit", and "Avg. Time on Site" (I'll call these "stats" from now on) ...
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How do I delete a goal in Google Analytics?
I am picking up a client's Analytics account and they have a large number of Goals set up that I want to delete.
They don't hold meaningful data since the client misunderstood the nature of goals.
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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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Is there a way to see granular per-visit data in Google Analytics?
I've started using Google Analytics very recently and I'm a bit lost with the sea of options (have been using Sitemeter before for some time). I've clicked through the service a lot but couldn't find ...
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Google Analytics: Track user from opening email to following link to finishing form
We track the opening of our marketing emails by using the utm.gif image which works well. But, we would like to see how many users go from opening the email, to clicking a link within the email and ...
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Side effects of using redirect pages to track external links?
I have been part of a push to implement better analytics on our company's web site over the last few months using Google Analytics. One request that has come in is for the ability to see clicks to ...
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Defining pages by custom variable, reporting to Google Analytics
Does anyone know how I could add some information to my page (whether in a meta tag or some other way) to indicate to Google Analytics that a page is targeted to a certain segment?
This is pretty ...
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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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Conversion on new and returning visitors
I was looking to do a quick comparison of conversion rates between new and returning visitors using Google Analytics. I can seem to get this working fine by using the dimensions "date" and "visitor ...
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Best practice for Google Analytics on a mobile site
I have a new mobile site which sites on m., m.example.com
What is the best method for integrating it's Google Analytics data with the existing data I have.
I want them together so I can easily see ...
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Changing default date range in Google Analyics?
Is there a way to change the default date range of 31 days in GA? After changing it and clicking apply, only the current report changes? Next time I use GA, 31 days again???
Here is documentation ...
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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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See how one goal leads to another (i.e., how often downloading the demo leads to purchasing)
I have two goals set up for my site in Google Analytics: one to download the demo of my software, and the other to buy the full version. I'm having trouble getting statistics on how often the download ...
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Google Analytics track transfer to sister site as not an “exit”?
I have two domains (i.e. example.com and foobar.com) and I have separate Google analytics properties for the two domains, but since I own the two (and they link to each other), I would like to know ...
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What is “undetermined” mention in Google Analytics?
Is there anyone who has an idea why I find the mention "undetermined" in the statistics keywords of my Google Analytics account. This mention seems to be associated only with my display network ...
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In Google Analytics's social reports, how can I look at the opt_target parameter used by _trackSocial?
After implementing social interactions tracking using _trackSocial, how do I look at the opt_target parameter in my reports? I can only seem to drill down to social source and action. For example, I'm ...
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What is the correct way to track carousel click through using Google Analytics?
I have a simple carousel with multiple slides on our home page, and I want to use Google Analytics to track how effective each slide is.
What is the correct way to do this in GA?
I could use:
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Will Google's decision to encrypt all searches from Chrome mean that we lose all keyword data in Google Analytics?
Context.
At the end of 2011 Google announced that they would start encrypting searches for logged in users.
What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search results? When you ...
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How do I remove outlier data from a Google Analytics chart?
I want to display a pie chart of pageviews for my site, but there are a few outlier pages I do not want included.
Is there a way to exclude those sites from the pie chart?
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filtering out excessively long views from google analytics
I have a landing page I'm watching pretty closely and I'm trying to track the avg view time on that page to see if it's going up or down based on changes.
The problem is some day in December the avg ...
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Find visitors to multiple subdomains on single visit with Google Analytics
I'm working on a site that has quite the backlog of Google Analytics data for their site network. One of our big questions is whether people enter on one site and move to another (and if so, of ...
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AdSense ad requests vs Analytics page views not matching - what's going on?
On one of our recently-launched sites, I see that the AdSense ad requests is around 12,000, yet the max page views I have seen in Analytics is roughly 40 page views. Obviously there's something going ...
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How do I analyse clicks on duplicate links in a page with google analytics?
At the moment in google Analytics when I view the in-page analytics section it shows the % of what's clicked on a page.
Different links that go to the same page are currently registered as the 'same' ...
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Using google analytics goals to optimise goals in adwords
We have set up goals in analytics to do with time on site, we also have an adwords campaign running, i noticed in adwords you can set up a conversion in adwords.
But this only works by putting code ...
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alternatives to google analytics, that dont tag organic searches as 'not provided' [closed]
As im sure most people know 'not provided' as an organic keyword source is really irritating. I was wandering if theres any other analytics providers free or otherwise that can track the incoming ...
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Tracking pages without analytics code
Do you have an idea how Google can track pages on the server without analytics code? The folder is prohibited by robots.txt too!
I can see the URL of those pages on the real time counter.
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Stop Google Analytics from appending hostname?
I've come across an Analytics profile that is appending the rest of a URL to the end of a page's path.
For example when looking at the page that exists at http://example.com/page I would expect to ...
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Google Analytics visits showing from discontinued campaign in reports
In my Google Analytics reports I am noticing that there are visits coming from a discontinued campaign, called AW12_AyrshireMinis?
Is this likely to be due to the visitors that were originally ...
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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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Why don't my Google Analytics traffic statistics match my webserver logs?
For a couple of months I've got a Wordpress website (http://www.tricky-design.com) online. I was curious how many visitor do visit my website therefore I'd setup a statistics counter Statpress (plugin ...
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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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facebook ad metric vs google analytics metrics
My facebook ad metrics shows me a number of clicks in my ad. Also my google analytics is tracking the facebook ad source, but the number of clicks in my ad is almost 30% bigger than the number of ...
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Google Analytics Code not tracking my Blog hits
I have installed Google Analytics Code on my blog but i am not able to register any hits on my blog for a while now. The code works perfect on my Website at http://mink7.com
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One variant receives way more visitors than the other (Google Content Experiments)
I've been running a number of A/B tests using Google Content Experiments, and have had the same problem across all the tests I've run in the last couple weeks. One variant (the original page) receives ...
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Analytics reports multiple different screen resolutions for (apparently) a single visitor
I have a site with only a small number of visitors. Using the "days since last visit" dimension in Google Analytics I thought I could work out a flow of individual visitors from day to day:
Date ...
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Social Interaction Tracking in Google Analytics
Since a few days now the Google + button is being tracked and shown in our Google Analytics account, which you can find here. There is also a solution to track Twitter, Facebook, ... but can't seem to ...
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Google Analytics account transfer
Is there a way to transfer Google Analytics account from one account holder to another? The original account holder was managing the site via MCC. That person is no longer associated with the ...
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How do click throughs from google places show up in analytics
We've just implemented google places for our business are getting a few hits through, i know that places has there own sort of mini analytics, but they are realy just a hybrid impressions, ctr chart.
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