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 does Google know how much traffic a website gets?
They obviously know how much traffic they send to it. But how do they know of the rest of the traffic to it? Is it only if it has Google Analytics installed, or do they get their information in some ...
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Strange Google Analytics result when new site launched
I have a web site which is mainly contains a few pages, and now we revamp-ed a new site which contains several hundred pages.
We have Strange Google Analytics result, as follow:
Before:
Traffic ...
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get aggregated view of data for entire website with Google Analytics
I have a website (www.ayrshireminis.com), which has three main sections under different directories, these are:
/forum
/galleries
/contact
I would like to have an aggregated view of the data for ...
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List of events triggered on pages matching regex
Is there a way to get the grouped list of events (such as in Top events) which were triggered on pages matching a regular expression?
I may add the Page secondary dimension in Top events and apply ...
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Google Analytics and framesets
I have a simple web page hosted in an EC2 machine, using nginx. Let's say my web page is reachable by:
http://<my_ec2_machine_static_ip>/my_web_page
I've put a Google Analytics tracking code ...
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How to use Google Analytics as an affiliate to track sales data
As an affiliate, how can we get more information on sales?
It looks like the goals feature in GA is for those who have control over the receipt page. But we are sending users away using an affiliate ...
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Using Google Analytics (or similar service) to track access to offline HTML files?
Is it possible to add code to a static, local HTML file on my computer, so that whenever I open the local file with a web browser (file:///C/Users/...), and assuming that the computer is connected to ...
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How to compare page views/visitors to site totals in Google Analytics?
I want to measure the effects in total traffic (views or visitors) of a single URL across a time frame.
For example, let's say I published a blog post on July 2012. I want to measure what chunk of ...
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adwords traffic showing up in analytics as organic traffic, not paid?
I've got adsense ads running driving ppc traffic to my site. When I go into Google analytics under the tab traffic sources > search > organic, I get all the search terms people have come through for. ...
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Old ga.js property has somehow switched to Universal Analytics. How is it possible?
I have a ga.js property which has been collecting data from the ancient times. now it is showing me that "Universal Analytics is enabled for this property".
What does it mean?
I have dual tagged ...
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Analytics: Cloud Flare vs Google - What discrepancy is too big?
Been using cloudflare for one of our sites for about a week now, and cloudflare reports 450% more real visitor page views than google analytics (so that's not bots or blocked threats)
I understand ...
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Google Analytics “Goals” .. numbers seem inflated?
When I look at the Google Analytics goal report for yesterday, it shows that I had 3,000 conversions for a given goal - 74% completed, and 6% abandoned.
Where is the missing 20%?
My numbers show ...
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Google Analytics in Joomla
I was asked by a client to insert the Google Analytics code in his joomla page. No problem, I said, peace of cake.
Little did I know that it is going to be such a struggle.
First of all, I ...
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Simple count visitors for front page for Joomla
We have a website with Joomla and we want to put a simple counter for visitors in front page of website, just the number of visitors. I use stat counter but the problem is that I can’t see all the ...
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How can I see the referring domain of visitors who's source is a campaign?
Using Google Analytics, we have a campaign that is tracked as CPC, and has several possible sources. The campaign is tagged (using utm_campaign, utm_source and utm_medium) and tracking correctly, as ...
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Tracking a goal through a virtual pageview is not registering
I am trying to track a goal in Google Analytics through a virtual pageview. As you can see in the code example, it is linking out from a picture instead of text with a link.
I triple-checked to ...
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My application's bounce rate jumped from 30% to 80% overnight
My application is provided as a service that is embedded in other sites. I have google analytics installed on the login popup dialog which is a page of my application, which is opened from the host ...
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Filtering your offices IPs from Google Analytics when each has a dynamic IP?
I found the documentation for filtering IPs from Google Analytics, but the address of the several locations of our company all have dynamic IP addresses that change every 30 days from what I'm told.
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Multiple values for a specific custom variable in Google Analytics
We're trying to get rid of a this question : would it be possible to setup more than one value in a custom variable in Google Analytics, at page level?
Eg:
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',3,'Tag','Custom ...
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my website is not raking well from past 2 yrs. why? [duplicate]
Please through the below link and let me explain the issues and what we are struggling to get SERP.
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Google Analytics tracking conversion & cross domain
We have 4 websites which send traffic to an e-commerce.
Which is the best approach to optimize conversions?
I'd like to understand the pattern people follow to buy products also.
This is how I set ...
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Google Analytics set-up for multiple domain in same site
We have a single site with all the content for multiple domains in this site. Is there a proper way to separate out analytics for domain.com and domain.com.au?
In the past we had two analytics code ...
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Strange Google Analytics Results
I have a small website and usually I have a very normal number of visits/pageviews/length of visit such as 20/200/5 minutes but today I did a bit more advertising in my area and I had 40/1500/20 ...
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Google Analytics shows visits to pages redirected in .htaccess
Yesterday, I switched on a section of pages in our site that replaces a really old collection of pages. In our .htaccess file, I have rules that redirect a request for any page in the old section to ...
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Using mixed A-Type and CNAME
A (IPv4 Adresszeiger)
doc.domain.de. IN A 301 to domain.atlassian.net
jira.domain.de. IN A 23.23.xx.xx
domain.de. IN A 301 to www.domain.de
work.domain.de. IN A ...
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Google Analytics - comparing metrics for different cities approach
I receive traffic from a number of different cities across the world, these being: Washington, Bratislava and Belfast.
In Google Analytics, I would like to be able to compare a variety of metrics ...
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Cross domain tracking - Wordpress and Google Analytics
Which is the best approach to automatically add the _link GA action to every outbound link that points to a certain domain?
e.g.
<a href="http://example.com/intro.html" ...
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Tracking multiple domains while obtaining single reports also
I own 4 websites
site1.com
shop.site.com
site2.com
site3.com
Using this information I will get a global report that shows how websites interacts.
How to keep getting separate reports for every ...
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detecting when you are going to reach your hit limit for Google Analytics free account
I am a user of a free Google Analytics account and i'm slightly concerned that I may be approaching the 10,000,000 hit (Pageviews, Events etc) per month.
Google state in their documentation:
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Google analytics page views and page hits
I have Google analytics tag in my site and it seems that GA (4-10 views) is much lower in reporting page views as opposed to my web app which reports around 350 views.
Is there a reason why this is ...
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Create a filter to consider http://example.com/foo/bar as http://example.com/index.php/foo/bar
I'm using URL rewriting to make my url http://example.com/foo/bar/ to http://example.com/index.php/foo/bar.
I'm not linking the index.php/.. url anywhere, but for some reasons, some users arrives to ...
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How to track Google Analytics of Adobe Air app?
I have written an Adobe Air desktop application that tracks a bunch of websites and displays images from the websites in the app. I'd like to make it so that the webmasters can see that page views are ...
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Website's url when tracking multiple subdomains in Google Analytics under one account [duplicate]
I would like to track a main domain in Google Analytics and also its multiple subdomains. But I would like each domain to have its profile, to be able to view every subdomain separately.
I made an ...
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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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What information can a competitor acquire from my Google Analytics account?
An ex-employee has gone over to a competitor, and it's been 3 weeks. I've realized not too long ago that this person still had shared access to the Master account...
Being that this person was the ...
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The simplest way to track Google Analytics without JavaScript?
Is it possible to track Google Analytics on my site, when JavaScript is not available?
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How to separate data from subdomains in Google Analytics?
I want to split my data from different subdomains in Google Analytics. I know it's possible to do it using different profiles + filters, but when you have a ton of subdomains, it's almost impossible ...
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Can Google track my site without Google Analytics?
If my site doesn't install Google Analytics and I'm using the browser IE, not Chrome. Can Google track my sites? (collect data about how many visitors, pageviews, time on sites, bouce rate...) If yes, ...
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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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Why would you use document.location.protocol instead of plain // prefixed urls?
For instance Google Analytics uses document.location.protocol in the boilerplate for tracking:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', ...
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Measure highest number of simultaneous visitors via Google analytics
Is it possible to find out via google analytics the highest number of simultaneous visitors at any given time?
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Does the calcluation of time on page include the pageview of the exit page?
My question revolves around average time on page and how google analytics calculates this metric.
I will provide an example to illustrate my question. I viewed 3 pages then exited.
page one view ...
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Google Analytics events: set page url parameter
Is it possible to set custom page url parameter (named utmp in request), when tracking events with Google Analytics?
I have set custom url for tracking pages ['_trackPageview', 'www.my.url.com/...'] ...
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Does Google Analytics Content Drilldown Mix Pages With Directories in Results?
I didn't set up this GA account and therefore don't have my custom setup that breaks the numbers up better. I just want to verify I'm looking at this correctly. On the Content > Site Content > ...
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Google analytics web chart [closed]
I've been asked to present a bar chart for the number of visits each month over the course of the year. This is to add to our management report each month. I can see how to do it for a line chart ...
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Google Analytics - Consolidating Visitors Flow between same page with and without “/”
As shown on the picture below , analytics displays sheet-metal and sheet-metal/ differently.
On my website all the links point to the page with / and a quick search for links using link: found no ...
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Analytics - Total events divided by number of unique pages?
I am using Google Analytics events to track keywords on my articles - not necessarily the best system I know but there are too many for variables I can't easily change it right now - and I would like ...
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Google Analytics still reports “Tracking not installed” even though the code is on the web page
I added the code listed on the Tracking Info tab on the GA page.
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
...
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Google Analytics tracking not installed
Google Analytics is saying that:
Status: Tracking Not Installed
on my site, when (as far as I can tell) I have put the tracking code in the site. What do I need to do to get Google Analytics to ...
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Google Analytics Filters not removing traffic from other domain
We have a frustrating problem where someone copied our site code including our Google Analytics code. So we are getting stats logged from their site which is very frustrating.
I have setup 4 Filters, ...
