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Do we really need Google Analytics for better SERP positions?
We have been using Google Analytics on our main website for years, but recently we have tried another local stats system (Yandex.Metrica) and we are very happy with it - more than with the Google one. ...
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Does Google Analytic count mismatching/unconfigured URLs?
Say url www.mysite.com is registered in Google Analytics and the tracking ID is UA-12345678-90.
What happens if another site with URL www.anothersite.com uses this ID too? Does analytic count visits ...
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Difference between Alexa, Google Analytics, Quantcast and Compete website statistics
I am getting confused by the following traffic metric systems: Google Analytics, Alexa, Quantcast and Compete metrics because they each show different values. ie. unique traffic, visits, pageviews, ...
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How much traffic isn't reported by Google Analytics?
We keep finding inconsistencies between data in Analytics and the reports we get from other sources. In general, we notice about 40% less pageviews in Analytics than elsewhere:
Correlating number of ...
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Merge database statistics into google analytics
A couple of sites I administer have this situation:
Google Analytics is set up for regular traffic reporting
I have some sort of cron tab emailing/logging weekly/monthly statistics like number of ...
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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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Alternative to Google Analytics with A/B testing and PDF scheduling
Is there a hosted solution that competes with Google Analytics and has some of the heavy hitting features:
A/B testing with regression analysis
Conversion tracking
Funnels
Schedulable reports that ...
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Google Analytics + External Site Statistics Tracking in one application?
My company is a broker in the real estate industry. As such, we send a lot of our listings to sites like Trulia.com and Zillow.com, among others. These sites direct leads to our realtors, and provide ...
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How to track a site-search with lots of options?
Our website has two search forms. One of them includes no text input, but a lot of checkboxes, dropdown boxes and radio buttons for narrowing down our product catalogue.
Is there a good way to track ...
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I have a video streaming site with a paywall. How do I track users that have been referred by an affiliate?
What I would like to do is track if a user has been referred to my website. If the incoming user purchases something I would like to share revenue with the affiliate. I'm not sure what the common ways ...
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Sample size and statistical significance in Google Analytics
I have been asked to compile a report into dropout rates during checkout for a global webstore
I have used a sample size over one month as my sample because:
google analytics slows to a crawl over ...
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Why are Awstats, Webalizer, and Google Analytics results so different?
I realize that comparing Awstats and Webalizer to Google Analytics is like comparing apples to oranges, but each of them track at least basic statistics about visitors and pages.
So why are there ...
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Sudden drop of pageviews/visit and increase of bounce rate in Analytics
Google analytics stats:
04 june 2012
Visits: 4.423
Unique visitors: 3.558
Pageviews: 77.352
Pageviews / visit: 17,49
Visit length: 00:06:26
Bounce rate: 1,09%
05 june 2012
Visits: 4.652
Unique ...
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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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Analytics for Single Page JavaScript Webapps (Google Analytics?)
Can Google Analytics be used for tracking user behavior in a single page web application? I have used Google Analytics for typical websites but haven't used it for these type of web apps.
If not ...
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How can I track the “Traffic Sources” of “Unique Visitors” by Google Analytics?
Now I can only see the "Traffic Sources" of "Visits". But what I would like to know is the number of "Unique Visitors" from each referrals. But when I go to "Traffic Sources" -"Referrals" from the ...
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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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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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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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Google Analytics: What to feed back to clients?
We have several successful websites all of which have Google Analytics. A few clients like to see some of the stats on the website and kind of like to have a "feedback" session.
I usually go through ...
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How to correctly count pageviews?
I've been using a free 3rd party sitestats counter for years, and I would like to get rid of the external party.
For this simple thing I'm only interested in pageviews (other stats I use google ...
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What are you using for getting stats about your web app? G. Analytics or other solution? [closed]
if you are building your own web application, what are you using for monitoring of visitors. Are you getting this information from Google Analytics? Or do you prefer your own solution?
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Find out where the user has come from — previous page URL within the same site
Is it possible to use Google Analytics or a similar tool to track the users' inter-site click behaviour?
I'd like to know how many users clicked on certain links on a particular page which lead them ...
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What is the best browser usage statistics source?
I wonder about what source of browser usage statistics is most reliable and updated.
I've been using
Google Analytics (with use of my analytics enabled pages)
W3 Counter
Stat Counter
but they ...
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Google Analytics: Find external sites which referred most visitors to a Goal
I have a goal setup in Google Analytics, I would like to track the number of visits that come from external sources.
e.g. I would like to see how many visits come from google.co.uk vs google.ie
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How do i show visitor count in my page?
I am using google analytics for tracking the visitors on my website. I can view all the stat reports from my google login.
I am wondering if i could place the visitor summary stat in my home page of ...
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Does placing Google Analytics code in an external file affect statistics?
I'm working with an outside software vendor to add Google Analytics code to their web app, so that we can track its usage. Their developer suggested that we place the code in an external ".js" file, ...
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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?
