Timeline for Huge discrepancies in analytics/traffic data between GAnalytics and BItly?
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| Jan 30, 2020 at 15:23 | answer | added | Chintak Chhapia | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 5:29 | answer | added | Derric Haynie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 10, 2015 at 9:39 | comment | added | Ryan Lue | @nyuen, Thanks for the article. Unfortunately, the solution in that article is to do UTM tagging before shortening your links, which I already did, and is the principal source of my confusion. re: w3d's point, bots and different methods of counting clicks vs. pageviews seems to be the main source of the discrepancy here, but... 4 on GA and 56 on bit.ly is the largest discrepancy (proportionally) I've seen in all my googling. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 16:38 | comment | added | MrWhite | It's possible that Twitter itself is interfering with the link, but then bit.ly wouldn't register a click. But, are we looking at the same metric... "clicks on a bitlink" (which probably does not differentiate bots and multiple clicks) vs Sessions in GA? For reference: Is traffic coming from URL shorteners treated as direct? | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 16:34 | comment | added | MrWhite | @nyuen Whilst there are striking similarities between that article's report and the data in the question and there may well be something in it, some of the claims in that article don't seem to make a whole lot of sense IMO. "redirecting the URL from the bit.ly link to the yoursite.com link, the source gets lost and is seen simply as a direct visit" - this is false. bit.ly issues a standard 301 redirect so it is up to the browser to resend the referer and make the request, not bit.ly. In fact, the target of the link (ie. GA) should not even be able to detect that bit.ly was used. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 14:06 | comment | added | nyuen | Perhaps this article may provide some insight megalytic.com/blog/dangers-of-shortened-urls-for-analytics | |
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:29 | history | asked | Ryan Lue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |