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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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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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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Tracking goals in Google Analytics content experiments
I seem to have a hard time getting goals to track properly in GA's content experiments.
I have my landing page which has the GA tracking code.
On the conversion page (this is on a different domain ...
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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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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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visit counts in advanced segments not consistant
My organization has recently noticed an issue when applying advanced segments to visit counts during different time ranges.
With no advanced segments turned on, here are the visit counts for Oct 1st ...
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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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Google Analytics doesn't show the correct landing page for my Facebook ads
Most of the visitors to my site are supposed to come from an external link with URL example.com/en/var from Facebook ads but Google Analytics shows that most of the landing page is example.com/var ...
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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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Differentiating home root paths for domain and subdomain
I have a web structure with a domain and a subdomain, let's call it example.com and blog.example.com.
I want to be able to track both the main domain and it's subdirectory within the same Analytics ...
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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 content experiment vs. funnel visualization
I am running an experiment on one of the pages in my funnel (the "Choose shipping options" page). But the numbers on the different reports do not correspond. First, I am expecting the 70 entrances in ...
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Google Analytics Dashboard: week-by-week view
Setting up Google Analytics Dashboard allows webmasters to get a weekly progress report of marketing achievements & keep a finger on what's going on at web properties.
However, by default, the ...
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Google Analytics content drilldown displays folders which I do not have in my domain
Assume that I have the following folders in the root of my domain: programming, codesnippets, wordreminder. I am using Google Analytics content drilldown to see the statistics.
Apart from the above ...
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How do I select last event value of the day in Google Analytic
I'm trying to select last event value of the day in Google Analytics.
The problem is that Event Value column shows the sum of all events of the specific date,
but I would like to see only the last ...
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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merging Google Analytics data after subsite namechange
We have been using Google Analytics for several years. About a year ago, we moved our blog from blog.oursite.com to oursite.com/blog. Overall, great move. But now there is now way to compare blog ...
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1 Google Analytics account or top-level domain + profiles for sub-domains vs. 1 account for each sub-domain
We have the following websites
An online magazine Singapore edition - sg.abc.com
The same online magazine Malaysia edition - my.abc.com
Forums around the same subjects as the online magazine but ...
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Powermapper alternatives and google analytics?
Whats a good application to map the hierarchical structure of a website and maybe get some google analytic action going on?
Powermapper is pretty expensive and the trial version didnt seem ...
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GAPI output doesn't match Google Analytics website
I have to get the main info about my Google Analytics Goals.
I'm using GAPI lib, with this code:
<?php
require_once 'conf.inc';
require_once 'gapi.class.php';
$ga = new ...
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Google Analytics Goal Tracking for Sub-Domains?
I am trying to track goals in Google Analytics for a website that has the goal URL on a sub-domain. The main domain for example is: domain.com and the sub-domain is my.domain.com. I have Google ...
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Using Google Analytics on TiddlyWiki
I know this have been covered in the past, but the links to the guides etc. seem to have broken over time.
I was wondering how to implement Google Analytics on TiddlyWiki. I tried this guide but ...
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Has anyone had issues with Google Analyticator authenticating?
I'm using Analyticator on a site and am having an issue. I am getting an error (see below) when I go to authenticate from the settings panel on Analyticator. The structure on this is a bit different ...
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Goal completions 10x higher in dashboard
I have the following table in my Dashboard:
Page path level 1 Visits Goal Completions
----------------- ------ ----------------
/sub1/ 994 1,295
/ ...
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Missing data for specific language in Google Analytics
We have a multilingual website, Swedish (default), English, Norwegian.
Google Analytics tracking code (the same code for all languages) is present on all pages.
Problem: We get data for the default ...
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Google Analytics: 300% direct traffic increase - due to load balancing or tracking code change?
Last Wednesday we changed the domain name of the Analytics cookie used on our online retail site to be able to better track our outsourced on-site search.
Following some discrepancies in the traffic ...
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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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Google Analytics Content Experiment not redirecting to original page
I have this afternoon created a Content Experiment in Google Analytics with the object of directing users to a specific page 25% of the time.
So my attempt to do this was to create an experiment that ...
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What is the best way to find products sold by metro area
I am trying to figure out which products are being sold the most within a certain metro area. I can drill down by state within Adobe Omniture, but the goods we sell are largely connected to climate ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to filter a funnel by product?
Let's say I'm tracking a conversion like the following:
View product > Customize > Finish order
When I push the the above events, I also push a product ID and name attached to it, hoping that ...
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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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Tracking untagged adwords visits in Google Analytics
In the event an AdWords campaign doesn't tag its ads, is there any way to identify the traffic (I know I won't get the low-level type of reporting available through properly tagged campaigns, I just ...
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Help Creating a Google Analytics Funnel for Check out process
have a funnel question.
I am currently working on tracking (through GA) guest and logged in member activity once they get to my sites shopping cart. But need help with setting up funnels. ...
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My events don't show up in the goal funnels or conversion funnels
I have an event set up on a website and I'd like to track the effect this event has on conversion rate.
The event seems to be working fine - I can see it on Top Events with all the labels, etc.
But ...
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Rewrite Generic URLs into real URLs on Google Analytics
I have an iPhone app for a forum which also has a limited Google Analytics reporting.
This app reports the page views in following generic form:
/forum/67
/thread/29036
etc...
The numbers above ...
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What is the difference between URL from property and URL from profile?
When I create a new property, Google Analytics asks for a "Default URL". GA then creates a profile by default, with a "Website's URL" field that contains the URL I introduced previously on the ...
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confirm if GA can track subseuqent page views for advanced segments
say, i run a campaign that lands on a site with a code appended to the url, e.g. www.mysite.com/?src=track
then i want to find out the page views contributed by this campaign.
so i create an advanced ...
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Google Analytics async=true seems wrong in the Google documentation?
In the Google Analytics async example, they state that in order to include more than one tracker, you need to setup your pages for asyncrous tracking, and they do so using the following code:
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