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 do I get social engagement data in Google Analytics?
There's a Social Report under the Audience section. However it shows that none of our visitors are socially engaged. Searching the Google Analytics Help Centre for "social" or "engagement" doesn't ...
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Google analytics site search
i am trying to enable the internal site seach tracking with google analytics.
So at analytics page, Acounts: mysite.com - Profile-Profile Settings -Site Search Settings, do track enabled.
At my site ...
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How does Google Analytics aggregate the Count of Visits (Frequency & Recency Report)?
Here's my simple understanding of Count of Visits:
Each person that comes to my site gets one "count" for each visit. They are put into a bucket of people with the same number of total counts -- if ...
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Is Google Analytics safe for websites that deal with sensitive information?
I work for a company that writes several webapps that deal with a lot of sensitive information, such as full name, date of birth, address, and SSNs. Currently we don't have anything to measure site ...
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Google Analytics - New & Old Domain Filtering
I have two domains associated with the same hosting account. Domain A was the one I had purchased when I first set up my website, but I didn't like it all that much and it was getting low ranks, and ...
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google analytics tracks real time and doesnt track views
I have a strange behaviour on a site I'm managing
Google Analytics tracks my real-time stats (I can see how many people are on the site) but fails to track impressions. My stats say 0 since ...
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Does including Google Analytics on a page makes you run the risk of failing a PCI audit?
My webshop is currently in the process of becoming PCI compliant.
For business intelligence reasons we would like to include Google analytics code (or a code from a similar package) on the checkout ...
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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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Will adding “www.” to my domain setting in Google Analytics impact already collected data?
I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is "http://example.com". The site, however, will redirect any non-www request, to ...
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Goals are not registering in Google Analytics
I've had a site online for a few weeks, and Google Anylitics is working fine. Except Goals, which are not registering for some strange reason.
To be clear: visits to the site are being registered, ...
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Am I really tracking my subdomain?
This is very similar to my last question, but now I'm putting a different angle on it.
Could it be that because of my DNS configuration, I'm not able to track traffic using filters?
On my main site ...
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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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Google analytics event tracking doesn't show the related revenue
We're tracking clicks on certain banners on a site using synchroneous tracking:
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\''+ ga_acc_code +'\');
pageTracker._trackEvent(\'click_1\', \'Home\', \'%title%\');
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Google analytics how will ajax calls affect time on site, time on page, etc
I am in the middle of redesigning a site and am concerned about how my new page design will compromise my google rankings. Essentially I am going to a single page site, using AJAX calls to reload ...
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Google Analytics Campaigns Not Tracking E-Commerce
I am running email campaigns via MailChimp and tracking the success of my campaigns via Google Analytics. I can successfully see data being tracked for:
Reporting > Conversions > Ecommerce ...
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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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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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Analytics, multiple domains, one site
What would be the best way to set up Google Analytics to track multiple domains which actually are all one site?
Example:
mysite.com
mysite.es gets routed to mysite.com/es, URL is mysite.es
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Google Analytics usage disclosure in privacy policy
This "Google Privacy Center" states that:
All website owners using Google Analytics are required to have a
privacy policy that fully discloses the use of Google Analytics.
At the Google ...
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Should I enable “Anonymously with Google and others” in Analytics to see my site in Website trends
I want my site to be appear in Website Trends. I have Google Analytics on my site, and my site is listed on Website Trends, but there is no data.
I have enabled (long time ago) the "With other Google ...
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Does resetting your modem frequently make using Google Analytics's “Ignore IP” feature pointless
Back in the Megavideo days, I'd reset my modem quite a bit to get around the viewing time restriction. As I understand it, the IP address changes each time (unless you have it set to a static IP).
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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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View hits by domain name in Google Analytics
I have multiple domains and I set the appropriate settings in the javascript code but in Google Analytics I would like to see the number of page views by each domain. I can't seem to find this report.
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Site redesign: New analytics profile or not
So we are in the process of redesigning our website, it's a radical redesign from what is currently out there. We have been using GA on it since we started.
My question to you all and this isn't a ...
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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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Update Google Adwords/Analytics goal path and conversion values outside of client's browser
I guess my question is sort of a two parter...
Is it possible to capture a Google Analytics visitors id? (not their traditional Google account id) I'm assuming the Google Analytics script gives ...
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Possible click fraud?
So I'm getting hundreds of hits (per month) across multiple separate domains, all originating from one city with 100% bounce rate and 0:00 time spent on the site. I know hundreds of clicks per month ...
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Reliable method for google analytics tracking for print advertising campaign?
A client is looking to track advertising clicks through a newspaper ad to measure success.
They have rigid business requirements that it will be a unique domain... e.g. foowidgetsnews.net instead of ...
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Bounce Rate skewed by Conversion
We've got a landing page with a list of games and users generally either click the "Play Now" button (which goes to an external site) or they just leave. Currently, our bounce rate is 30%, but we ...
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Traffic from a specific site considered as direct traffic
Let's say a site adds a link to my site. After that, I noticed an increase in visits to my site (and I'm sure that at least some people came to my site via this link). The problem is, when I look at ...
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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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Setting up funnel URLs with regular expressions
I'm trying to set up Google Analytics to track my e-commerce checkout page. The URLs in the process are as follows:
/checkout/[order number]
/checkout/[order number]/your_details
/checkout/[order ...
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Analytics and AdWords setup for agency
How would you recommend to setup Google Analytics and (or) AdWords for an marketing agency managing multiple websites, assuming that:
I need access to all of the sites
I'd like to manage all of the ...
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Analytics not showing Adsense data [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Problem integrating Adsense with Google Analytics
I already posted on the analytics help forum but nobody replied, so I thought I would ask here.
Basically, I have an ...
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Google Analytics show zero for “Search Engine Optimizations” graph
In Google Analytics new design, there is an area related to the queries and impressions related to your site. You can get there by following Traffic Sources => Search Engine Optimization => Queries.
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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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How do we get our sites' sections displayed under the description in a Google search? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
For Example, if I Google "Stack Overflow" the site comes up but also links to the main ...
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Google analytics referral path
I run a website at the domain http://www.turkishbasics.com . Google Analytics is however showing the referral path of some of my traffic to be the domain itself (turkishbasics.com). How is this even ...
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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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Google Analytics goal funnel does not recognize virtual page views
I have a setup wizard with 3 steps. Since I'm using AJAX each step uses a virtual pageview with an appropriate URL for each step (see below). The pageviews are being recorded in the Content section ...
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Low “time on site” and high bounce-rate in Japan
I'm seeing a substantially low "time on site" and high bounce rate from visitors coming from Japan. Comparing to other states, even in languages I don't speak, the stats are still dramatically worse. ...
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Any other web Analytics tool other than Google Analytics [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a better analytics package than Google Analytics?
Is there any other more advanced web analytics tool than Google Analytics? Even though Google Analytics ...
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What is easy to integrate statistics script?
I develop a website on that people can create their own subpages with some tools i provide. And i would like to add the ability for users to see statistics without setting them on their own (like with ...
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Google Analytics API data for goals (funnels) doesn't match - how do they reconcile?
I have a Google Analytics account with a well-functioning funnel made up of 4 goals. I can query the API and get the data out, but it does not match the funnel report in Analytics. Without getting ...
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Google Analytics Goals with AJAX Functionality?
I have some nice ajax contact/enquiry forms etc on a website I'm working on which are working great (and degrade gracefully).
I'd like to make use of Google Analytic's 'Goals' feature. The trouble ...
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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 just start tracking Windows Phone as an OS?
Just wondering if anyone else has dug into the Windows Phone traffic they have in Google Analytics?
The graph below describes it better than I can. The timeline is showing the last year, and we ...
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How can I get stats for what 3rd-party sites have embedded our iframe widget?
Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so:
<iframe src="http://example.com/whatever.php" frameBorder="0" width="200px" height="300px" scrolling="no"></iframe>
The ...
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Google Analytics In-Page Tracking For <input> Clicks
The in-page view in Google Analytics shows the website in an IFrame and overlays the statistics of link clicks. How is this done to track and show clicks (or entered data) for textbox ( elements)?
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Google Analytics-like product with the ability to push my own data
we are looking for a google analytics-like product but we would like to have the ability to push our own data and analyze them. For instance, we work a lot with affiliates where a visitors visit our ...
