tools such as Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools that allow you to collect data about your site
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Understanding alexa rank
When I check Alexa rankings for my site it says that one site is linking to my site. Is this only back links?
If it is then why are other website traffic checking tools like Google etc showing ...
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2answers
171 views
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:
...
8
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4answers
3k views
Alternative to Pingdom website monitoring service
I need a website monitoring service to make sure my app is not only up but also responsive. Pingdom is great, but just so expensive. Is there anything like it but more affordable?
UPDATE: I'd like ...
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1answer
74 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
96 views
Any other services like MouseTrace? How useful is it?
I just need to know if there are any alternatives to mousetrace - http://www.mousetrace.com
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4answers
504 views
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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2answers
2k views
Using Google Analytics to establish busiest time of day
I am trying to find a way to establish my sites busiest hour, but when using the "hour of the day" metric, each seems to have a date specific code, rather than just a number from 0-23, as I would ...
5
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1answer
669 views
Meaning of 'UsageValue' in Amazon EC2 Reports
I've recently downloaded my usage reports from my EC2 account, but I don't understand the 'UsageValue' data since there is no indication of what unit the numbers are measured in.
I have a similar ...
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1answer
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What's the deal with URLs for Yandex.Metrica not prepended with “http”?
The description of Yandex.Metrica explicitly says that URLs like //mc.yandex.ru/metrika/watch.js (no http: in front) that the web site owner has to insert into his pages are not erroneous. So for ...
4
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2answers
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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 ...
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3answers
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How can I determine the trending pages on my site?
I'm looking to see what the "hot" pages are on one of my sites. I want to see for various timeframes, what the top-50 pages are. I'm only concerned with the current month's data.
I'm going to create ...
4
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2answers
426 views
Looking for non-paid heat map tools for website analytics
I'm looking for a heat map solution to track my users' behavior on my website, preferably free of charge. I've already googled a little bit and here is what I found so far.
Still I would like to ask ...
4
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1answer
210 views
Web analytics accuracy - log files vs JavaScript
I've just read a claim on a web stats package site that suggests that log files generate more accurate stats than their JavaScript-based counterparts. This seems to be an over-simplification at best; ...
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2answers
654 views
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 ...
4
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2answers
180 views
Analyze Drupal and Wordpress sites CPU load in shared server
Our hosting company is complaining that both our Drupal and Wordpress websites running in a shared server are consuming too many CPU resources. The traffic for each site is not more than 100 users ...
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5answers
251 views
Self hosted Web Analytics like urchin
I would like some cheap/free web analytic software to be used on my windows server (Server 2008). urchin seems to be way expensive. please provide me some good recommendations.
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3answers
279 views
can we predict website traffic?
Can we predict website site traffic ?
For Example, I have the blog about web development, Means I need to find How many web developers in the world.How many of them working on my hot tag in my ...
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1answer
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How do I track a goal path over multiple visits?
My sales cycle is measured in weeks. A typical user behavior pattern looks like this:
Finds the site via organic, cpc, or referral
Browses the content for awhile.
Returns a few days later, browses ...
3
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3answers
148 views
desktop software for web analytics
I am not a webmaster nor a programmer. I am asking this in order to aid in my research for my Master's dissertation where I have to analyze a website's traffic from a file containing activity on the ...
3
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2answers
156 views
Best in-depth analytics or stats tools? (preferrably server-side)
I know there's been questions about this before, but mine is a little more specific. I work for a high traffic website and we want to start tracking our visitors better. Unfortunately, Google ...
3
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1answer
240 views
What sense can be made out of TIME_WAIT, CLOSE_WAIT, ESTABLISHED
Using netstat command, I got the number of couple of TCP states of connections.
But for running websites, how to make meaningful connections between these numbers and the bottleneck/performance of ...
3
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2answers
363 views
Do multiple Google Analytics profiles share the same raw data?
I have two profiles under one web site in Google Analytics. The two profiles are essentially the same except one has defined parameters to exclude (e.g. id, page... etc) so that I could aggregate the ...
3
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1answer
124 views
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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2answers
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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
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Infrastructure to effectively set up experiements and learn from them
My website is in the early stages of creating our first product, a place on the web, where one can ask lawyers questions at a fraction of their normal costs.
I got inspired by this video, which is ...
2
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2answers
367 views
Is there a modern (eg NoSQL) web analytics solution based on log files?
I have been using Awstats for many years to process my log files. But I am missing many possibilities (like cross-domain reports) and I hate being stuck with extra fields I created years ago. ...
2
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2answers
1k views
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 ...
2
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1answer
165 views
How to correctly track the analytics when using iframe
In our main aspx page we have this analytics code
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1301114-2']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', ...
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1answer
125 views
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 ...
2
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1answer
324 views
How can I make Google Analytics understand URL encoding?
I have a page on my site that has the following URL:
solr?filters=type%3Aphoto (let's call this URL A)
Any link to this page on my site reads:
solr?filters=type%3Aphoto
The "%3A" is a URL encoded ...
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2answers
392 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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1answer
84 views
Is it a good idea to register multiple domains pointing to a single website
We have a main domain or primary domain (say xyz.com) on which we have our website hosted. For the sake of business/trademark we would like to book other domain with the same name but different tlds ...
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5answers
357 views
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 ...
1
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1answer
81 views
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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1answer
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What does the keyword 'impression' mean or constitute in web analytics
I would like to understand what does the keyword 'clicks' mean or constitute in web analytics. I have asked a similar question for clicks since the keywords individually mean 2 different things.
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1answer
227 views
Google Analytics: Tracking page time on site
Does anyone know how Google Analytics tracks how long a user has been on the site? When the user leaves the page that has analytic tracking code, won't the sending/receiving link be broken? How are ...
1
vote
1answer
94 views
Reviewing a website
I'm looking for a tool (free/paid) like a program that help me in reviewing my website style and interface such as explain the content of the home page (footer, header ..... ) taking snapshots and ...
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1answer
306 views
How do I reconcile my Google Analytics numbers with my Squarespace analytics?
According to Squarespace, in the last month I got Page Views 259, Unique Visitors 172, and Robot Hits 1,965. According to Google Analytics it was more like 346 page views, and 97 Uniques (no data on ...
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1answer
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How do I get the time (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) of my KissMetrics events?
Do I need to make my own tool to get that from s3 json dumps of the raw event data, or can I magick the Reports view to show it somehow instead of just filtering on it?
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1answer
156 views
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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3answers
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Creating an online community - use templates or self-develop?
PHPMotion, Joomla or develop my own?
I'm thinking of developing a common interest online community. It will be have UGC, stats, etc.. functionality, and perhaps an online store. Though cost is an ...
1
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2answers
122 views
Are there any web log analyzers that produce something like Visitors Flow?
We currently run AWStats and Google Analytics. I've recently looked into several other options including Piwik, Open Web Analytics, and Webalizer.
One thing that I'd like to track, and haven't found ...
1
vote
1answer
98 views
How can I track hits to areas of my web application?
We have a growing web application, and we currently use Google Analytics and Chartbeat to track usage and engagement (although we're open to alternatives). Unfortunately, both are geared towards ...
1
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1answer
101 views
Desktop Software to monitor online status of web site and web-based application [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down?
I'm basically looking for a desktop-based software which can monitor my company's website and the web ...
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1answer
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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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vote
1answer
125 views
Are WebTrends query Dimensions & Measures fixed for a report?
In viewing a report in WebTrends, I am limited to one dimension if I try to write a query. When looking at the Countries report, I see the geographical data I want, but I also want to look at what ...
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1answer
68 views
Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup
I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I ...
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0answers
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
189 views
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 ...
