Hot answers tagged website-analytics-tools
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You'll find that if you compare Yahoo, Bing, Google, Alexa, and anyone else counting backlinks you'll get different numbers from all of them, sometimes but large margins. They all do their own crawling and as a result see different pages and thus get different results. Google has demonstrated that it has the most sophisticated infrastructure so if you had to ...
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I think the code validator is wrong. If part of a URL is missing then the other parts are filled in from the parent page. So for example, if an image is referred to from http://example.org/page1.html with src="pic.jpg" then the browser adds http://example.org/ before the src.jpg before it fetches the file. If the http: part of the url (the protocol) is ...
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When viewing your website data, choose Visitors > Visitor Trending > Visits from the Analytics left-hand sidebar menu:
Select the date range you're interested in, and then click the clock to the right of "Graph by" in the top right of your screen:
You'll see a graph and bar chart showing visits by time for the date range you selected:
It's ...
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As long as all the secondary domains simply do a 301 Permanent Redirect to the primary domain, this will not negatively affect SEO at all. It probably wont have any positive effects either, but if you value owning those domains (even if just to ensure noone else uses them) then that may be immaterial.
Replicating the content on all the different domains ...
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Here's what I know of:
Corunet Definitive Heatmap
Sec6
Mouseflow
Seevolution
But there are also heatmap generators you can use for manual usertesting.
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Surely if it is a good-quality stats package, it would deliver accurate results regardless of whether it's JS, image-tag or log file-based?
If you're referring to the section headed "Get more accurate website statistics with log file analytics versus script-based software" then yes, it's a bit disingenuous. While you can say that a given server- or ...
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Yes it's possible
$(document).ready(function(){
ctrl = false;
document.addEventListener("keydown", function(e){
if(e.which == 17){
ctrl = true;
}
if(e.which == 70 && ctrl == true){
e.preventDefault();
}
}, true);
document.addEventListener("keyup", function(e){
if(e.which == 17){
ctrl = false;
}
...
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Most analytics providers offer benchmarking tools which allow you to compare your own analytics with those of other sites in the same market sector.
Google offer a free service (in the form of an email since it's restoration in mid 2011, and webtrends and omniture offer paid services.
This is about as close as you can get to predicting traffic, even then ...
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You can actually get the data you want out of Google Analytics but you either need to use an Advanced Segment or a Custom Report.
With an Advanced Segment you can set up a filter for "New York" and most of the reports will just contain this data.
You can create a Custom Report that shows you visits to each page split down by region.
If you want to ...
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Google Analytics has a document with server-side code snippets in several languages. It says it's for mobile use, but the actually important bit is that it's for situations where the browser may not support Javascript.
As for other services, a lot of their code comes in this general format:
<script type="text/javascript" src="[Javascript ...
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Check into UptimeRobot http://www.uptimerobot.com It's free, offers HTTP and ping monitoring every 5 minutes with email, text and RSS notifications. To my soon to be former webhost's chagrin, it's very reliable with uptime monitoring logs and past event tracking.
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You could just use Google Analytics to log the data, then pull the data out of the reporting api; this would save you a lot of hassle as most of the logging and data processing will be done for you by Google.
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If you're using wordpress then there is the 'Google Analytics Popular Posts', which pretty much does what it says on the tin. 'SubZane Google Analytics Plugin' does the same thing, there is also a decent tutorial if you'd like to get your hands dirty.
Afraid I can't help with ROR, but this functionality should be available in one or more of the popular Ruby ...
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If you want capture the event keyboard Ctrl + F and continue with the opening of the standard searchbox of the browser, you could do this:
var KEY_CTRL = 17;
var KEY_f = 70;
var isReserved = false;
var useExclusiveKeyEvent = false;
var isNewSearchEvent = false;
/*THIS VARIABLE IS RENDERED BY SERVER SIDE*/
var clientRandomKey = ...
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There is bound to be some small differences between numbers on two different analytics packages. I would start by looking to see:
Am I tracking every page on both packages?
Are the tracking scripts in different places? (ie top of page and bottom)
I don't know how Squarespace runs their analytics. However, do a little bit of research on it. If they use ...
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Answer is every "few seconds" -- which comes from their site...
"Near the top of the page, the number of people currently on the site that these stats are for is displayed, updated every few seconds. Below that, a timeline shows visitor trends for the previous 24 hours. You can click on it to view specific ranges in history. Under the timeline, in the left ...
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Google have just released a new Links to your site feature that includes a bunch of enhancements. Most noticeably it will now show which websites link the most to your site. This should enable you to cross reference the data from Alexa. As noted in the other answer the Alexa data is pretty unreliable so maybe the Google enhancements would give better ...
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Clicktale, Mouseflow, Clickdensity, Foresee, CrazyEgg, and Silverback (Mac app) all offer heatmap and/or cursor tracking.
Heat maps of the sort that CrazyEgg provide tend to be more useful than cursor tracking, particularly when split testing two alternative designs, because they provide an at-a-glance comparison of a design's effectiveness.
Cursor ...
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Great question. It has been a longstanding issue on Google that it defaults to 'last touch attribution', meaning the conversion is attributed to the last channel a visitor arrives from.
In the new version of Google Analytics, Google introduced Multi-Channel Funnels, to show you "how your marketing channels (i.e. sources of traffic to your website) work ...
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Here's an answer to that question from the Google forums
The way that Google Analytics calculates average time on site is by
subtracting the timestamps between the first and the last pageview of
a visit. ... There is no way for Google Analytics to know exactly
when a visitor left the site since no information is sent back to GA
when the visitor ...
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http://aremysitesup.com/ offers a free plan with 15 minute interval checking, or a paid plan (from $5.42/month) for 5 minute interval checking.
If you're just monitoring one site, pingdom's free account offers 1-minute interval checking -- you just need to login once every 90 days to keep it alive: https://www.pingdom.com/signup/free/ (If you're monitoring ...
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Google Analytics can be used with single page applications. You can either use Events to track user behaviour, or you can register "virtual" page views in the same way that real pages get recorded in a multi-page site.
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Splunk can import Apache logs
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.2/Data/Apachelogslocal
Or review this answer on Stack Overflow
A relatively recent option is to use Flume to collect the logs
and use the MongoDB sink plugin for Flume to write the events to
MongoDB.
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Unique visitors are identified by GA using the __utma cookie set by analytics. Here is a official article on Cookies used by GA. You could refer to these cookies by reading them using your server side script.
If you have a login system in your app, you could try setting a customvariable as the user id (which would be unique). Here is the document on Custom ...
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One option would be to customise your tracking code to replace the URL with the part of the site that the user is using:
// Replace this with what you want to use instead of the URL
var applicationArea = "/login-area";
// GA Tracking Code
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', ...
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As far as I know of, there is no tool to predict traffic rates, nor is there any formula. It depends on a lot of factors;
First and foremost, quality content. If the information you're posting is already out there, well known or presented in a bad way, no one will come to your site.
SEO, if you're site is undiscoverable, no matter how good your information ...
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You need to have the Advanced Analysis version to do custom reports. In addition you need to have the administrator enable the privileges for you to do it. If you have the proper permissions checked (Custom Reports in Advanced), you should see the menu options below. If you have the Standard Analysis version, you will see the Report Configuration options ...
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If you have not modified the tracking snippet, this traffic will typically end up on your client's Traffic Sources > Referrals report - unless the widget is embedded in a document served over SSL or the user-agent is configured not to send the referrer header. (change the embed code to src="//example.com/whatever.php" if possible)
This may be acceptable ...
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Hopefully this will help, detailed explanation here:-
CLOSED Indicates that the server has received an ACK signal (to
acknowledge receipt of a packet) from the client and the connection
is closed.
CLOSE_WAIT Indicates that the server has received the first FIN
signal (to acknowledge there is no more data to be sent) from the
client and the connection is ...
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I'm not sure how things work behind the scene, but as a user you should consider each profile to have a separate copy of the data: If you delete a profile then recreate it, then you'll loose the data in the original; if you filter data out of a profile, then you won't be able to get it back.
For this reason, Google recommends you keep at least one profile ...
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