Action to get data from a web site visitors in order to generate statistics.
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Can anyone recommend a Google SERP tracker?
I want to track my website's position in Google's search results for around 50 keywords/phrases and I am looking to a nice web service or Windows application to automate this process.
Ideally, I want ...
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5answers
390 views
What are the best user data collection and gathering tracking tools?
I know of a few tool that help markets gather data about visitors, Google Analytic, CrazzyEgg, and KISS Insights.
What are other notable tools to help track information? What do you use?
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1answer
260 views
How can I identify unknown query string fragments that are coming to my site?
In the Google Analytics content overview for a site that I work on, the home page is getting many pageviews with some unfamiliar query string fragments, example:
...
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1answer
75 views
What are examples of services that track content-driven activity on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?
I'm trying to design the basics for a platform that enables users to access sets of statistics and information related to the way how their publications are handled and shared across social networks ...
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1answer
353 views
Unable to use anchor hash tag if using Google Analytics utm
If I want to user to go a particular section of my webpage, I will use
http://www.mywebsite.com/help_faq.html#contribution
However, sometimes, I need to track where user come from, if I use
...
5
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1answer
107 views
Why does Google Analytics log a user logging in as an exit?
I have custom event tracking set up in Google Analytics that tracks when a visitor registers on the site. The tracking is working fine. However, GA is showing that 100% of users "exit" the site after ...
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601 views
What guidelines should be followed when implementing third-party tracking pixels?
Background
I work on a website that gets a fair amount of traffic, and as such, we have implemented different tracking pixels and techniques across the site for various specific reasons.
Because ...
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3answers
3k views
Google Analytics: How can I track between http:// and https:// profiles for a domain?
I'm trying to set up tracking on a project that I'm working on.
The main site is at http://www.example.com/
The order page is at https://www.example.com/index.php
Currently they have two ...
4
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2answers
194 views
Track visitor use of “Ctrl + F” on a website?
Would it theoretically be possible to detect (e.g. via JavaScript) if a user queries a webpage with the Windows shortcut Ctrl + F, or the Mac-equivalent Command + F in their browser?
The first step ...
4
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6answers
580 views
Best way to track multiple sites with Google Analytics
I currently have 63 websites (and counting) that I'm tracking on one Google Analytics account, and I'm starting to realize... this is becoming a bit cumbersome.
What's the best way to collect traffic ...
4
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1answer
168 views
How to use Google Analytics to track a development and production versions of the same site on different servers?
I have a website with two versions, one for production and one for development (testing new features). All of the code is under version control and the websites are on separate servers.
Currently, I ...
4
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1answer
120 views
Exit link tracking with timestamped logs on 3rd party content
I want to track clicks on exit links, that are placed in 3rd party content, for example on Twitter. I also need the timestamps of the clicks.
Google Analytics can't be embedded in 3rd party content.
...
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4answers
323 views
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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3answers
541 views
Self-hosted URL shorteners with built-in statistics?
I'm looking for self-hosted URL shortener scripts and projects (e.g. YOURLs) that track traffic sources, locations and other statistics. I need one with a solid API and JSON support. Any suggestions?
3
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2answers
118 views
How do I track multiple domain in Google Analytics?
I have 2 unrelated websites with different content.
mydomain1.com
mydomain2.com
I already have a Google Analytics account for http://mydomain1.com. Now I want to add my second domain ...
3
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1answer
55 views
Google Analytics: Enabled 'Track site search results' , where do I see list with search queries
I enabled 'Track site search results' on Google Analytics and put also the queryparameter. Now my question is, where can I simply look at the list that is gathered with all the searches that are done ...
3
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1answer
55 views
Is there a way to record scrollbar movement?
Simply put, I would like to know if customers are looking at the whole page or not, to decide whether I should rearrange the content, moving it up on that page or not.
Is there a way to record the ...
3
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2answers
154 views
Track actions of paying customers
I'm looking for software that can analyze my Apache log files (or some other source) and tell me, from the visitors that actually bought something from my site, some profiling information; like time ...
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3answers
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Is there a blogging platform that allows me to give traffic related bonuses to writers?
I would like to be able to reward writers with bonuses based upon the amount of traffic their individual posts receive, to encourage them to promote their posts on the internet. Is there a platform ...
3
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2answers
731 views
Google Analytics: Tracking multiple domain names of one website
Suppose I have the website www.example.com and www.example2.com. I redirect all page requests from www.example2.com to their corresponding pages at www.example.com. Is there a way for Google Analytics ...
3
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3answers
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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 ...
3
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1answer
211 views
Track a Adobe Flash app hosted on multiple domains with Google Analytics
I'm working on a flash app that's gonna be distributed to more and more partners (and obviously domains). It needs to be tracked aggregated and also separately.
I implemented Google Analytics using ...
3
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5answers
260 views
Variable IPs: How variable are they? Best practices for tracking
There are a lot of questions on StackOverflow relating to session security / session hijacking, but there doesn't seem to be a really good solution to the problem. The three most common suggestions ...
3
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2answers
715 views
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/...'] ...
3
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1answer
187 views
Track Promotional Code Sales
Is there a way I can track actual sales on purchases utilizing Promo or Discount Codes obtained through my site? My site will link to e-commerce sites where users can use those promo codes on their ...
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3answers
928 views
Proper way to move Google Analytics code from one site to another one
Currently, I use Google Analytics for www.example.com. example.com is also added to GA and shows "Tracking not installed".
Recently I added rewrite rule (301 redirect) to redirect all requests from ...
2
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1answer
1k views
How do you track a website using multiple Google Analytics accounts?
Suppose you have two distinct Google Analytic accounts. How are you able to send request data to both accounts on a single page load? For example, on a normal account you'd include code such as:
var ...
2
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2answers
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How to keep track of websites updates?
I visit a good number of websites - around 100-200 - that don't offer RSS resources. I'm going to check through that list from time to time anyway but I could avoid wasting time in sites that weren't ...
2
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2answers
78 views
How to keep track of a unique and an existing visitor
I am creating an app that requires to know if the visitor visiting the app is a unique visitor or an already visited visitor. I know we could persist a cookie on the visitor's computer to know ...
2
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1answer
82 views
Google Analytics: Disable tracking for country/region
I'm using google analytics on a small business website from germany. Today i noticed 86 visitors from Palo Alto on a Sunday. No matter where they come from and why there are visiting the site, they ...
2
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1answer
70 views
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, ...
2
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2answers
131 views
Sites & Tools for comparing domains
What are some good tools or websites for comparing websites traffic, SEO, and other factors site owners might want to know about their competition.
2
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1answer
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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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1answer
536 views
How to measure the conversion rate of your Amazon affiliate program?
I plan on selling products through the Amazon affiliate program. What I know I can track is:
-what products people view on my website (default Google Analytics pageview behaviour).
-what affiliate ...
2
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2answers
595 views
Google Analytics Subdomain Tracking for WordPress
I'm looking for the best solution to track my website's traffic using Google Analytics. I have a website that (currently) has two subdomains. The subdomains are about very different content, the TLD ...
2
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2answers
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Do you know a good html mailing list management software with admin levels? [closed]
I'm basically looking for a program/app/script (can be commercial) which I can ideally install on a windows server (we can run asp, asp.net php mssql)
we have different groups of people who send ...
2
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1answer
542 views
Setting google analytics cross-domain tracking without the javascript
I sell a windows software through a third party company (FastSpring) and would like to track those sales with GA.
The problem is that all my "buy links" on my site (www.easyjob.net) don't point ...
2
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1answer
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What are the pros of installing multiple user behavior tracking frameworks on the same website?
What are the pros of installing G
Google Analytics
Webtrends
Quantcast
.. and several other user behavior tracking frameworks all in same website? Don't they give same set of results?
I just know ...
2
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1answer
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What does the Quantcast __qca cookie do?
I'm reviewing the cookies served up from my website and one of them is a first-party cookie __qca which seems to be set by Quantcast.
I'm sure this is just used for tracking, but I can't find this ...
2
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3answers
757 views
Can I use UTM urls in Google Analytics to track the performance of different *sections* of my site?
If I start using the UTM links in Google Analytics to try and track the conversion rate on for instance, search results, or product recommendations, will I be getting an accurate representation of ...
2
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0answers
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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 ...
2
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1answer
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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%\');
...
2
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2answers
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How do I keep track of multiple websites?
As an owner of multiple websites I sometimes find it difficult to remember when each site needs renewing. Another problem is that I have to log into every single site to check the site traffic ...
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5answers
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Determine what percentage of visitors to my site leave without taking a certain on-page action
On Rap Genius you can click the orange lyrics to read pop-up explanations:
However, I'm sure some visitors don't know that the orange lyrics are clickable. I'd like to figure out what percentage of ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
407 views
Any free web analytics/tracking services without JavaScript?
Is there any free web analytics/tracking service that can work without JavaScript on client side?
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2answers
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How do sites like alexarank and w3spy.net work?
I am curious as to how companies are able to track the number of unique visitors to other people's sites. Seems like an impossible task to me. Any ideas?
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5answers
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Is there a good tool or service for tracking and analyzing website response/download time?
I am looking for a simple tool or service to track the server-side performance of a website over time.
It would be nice to have the possibility to register a set of URLs for different page types and ...
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4answers
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how to check that Google Analytics Tracking Code is firing on an iPad
I am used to using the Firebug extension "Omnibug" with Firefox to check that Google Analytics Tracking Code is firing on my website. This application works very well and has minimal overhead.
I am ...
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2answers
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Error when setting Piwik analytics
I've uploaded the latest version of Piwik unto my web server, which is hosted by go daddy.com, on a linux hosting plan.
I'm setting it up (accessing it from my browser as instructed) and I have the ...
