We are unable to use the In-Page Analytics report in Google Analytics because our site now redirects to a URL which is different from what is in our Account setting. Are there any workarounds which will give us the In-Page Analytics and not impact our history data?
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Is the site being redirected to, a different design/layout than the old one because if so, what's the use of In Page analytics in GA going to be? – zigojacko Feb 13 '14 at 8:45
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Hi Geoff. The site itself did not change. we just changed the url so the business name could be seen. Before we had an abbreviation so it was not helping branding. – kathy Feb 13 '14 at 20:54
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So when you switched to a new domain, didn't you create a new property for it in Google Analytics? So that you'd have data for the new domain and data for the old domain... – zigojacko Feb 14 '14 at 9:10
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we actually did create a new property but the site redirects to a different dommain – kathy Feb 26 '14 at 18:54
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If in-page analytics is going to follow the redirect then this is a limitation of GA unfortantely - I do have one possible workaround which is a bit of work and untested though. I'll post my answer. (Although if the website design/layout is the same, I don't see why you can't still just use the in-page analytics it shows you as it matches this against URL paths so if these haven't changed, it should still work and be accurate for what you want). – zigojacko Feb 27 '14 at 9:08
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All I can really suggest is duplicating the website at another location but minus the domain redirect so that you can use this to view past in-page analytics on the old website.
- Purchase a new domain and set up the web hosting.
- Duplicate the website on this new domain and database.
- Make sure you NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW the duplicated website.
- Stop the redirect on this duplicated website so it does not redirect to your other domain.
- Password protect the domain with
.htaccess. (Learn how here). - Create
- Modify your GA property to track with the same UA on both domains. (Learn how here).
Come to think of it actually, I'm not even sure in-page analytics in GA will give you an option to show for different domains (even though GA supports cross-domain tracking). Hmm.
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Short Answer is no. The answer provided by @zigojack will work.
Thing is, is it worth going through all the trouble? In-Page analytics is there for convenience and at times can be misleading.
You have a wealth of information inside your GA account so I would just use that.
