Questions tagged [analytics]
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Is www required in front of a domain name, in Google Analytics?
I have a website (let's call it example.com). It can be accessed as example.com and also as www.example.com. I just added example.com in Google Search Console as property (it appears as example.com, ...
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Command line filtering log by date and legitimate requests in Analog
Is there any way to get Analog to report the number of hits per day and the number of different IP addresses that are from legitimate readers? I define "legitimate" readers as accesses that (1) not ...
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How to Identify a websites audience
I'm trying to identify web traffic based on the country the person is from.
Obviously I can do this if they are searching my website from their own country.
But what if they are visiting another ...
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Why am I getting requests for /js/comm.js for my website?
I've been checking the error 404 (or "Page not found") logs for my website and there's a bunch of entries for the /js/comm.js script with the user agent set to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:...
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Google Analytics: How to find the URLs accesed through organic traffic?
I'm trying to analyze the traffic through the organic searches in order to determine which URLs are the most "popular" through search engines. And would like to find such URLs.
In my Google Analytics ...
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Thousands of page views but none are unique
I have a page that is getting thousands of page views, but very few are unique. Looking more closely, the ones that are not unique have the 'Previous page path' as itself. The page does not link to ...
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How to filter an IPv6 traffic from Google Analytics data?
I need to filter my local IP address out of my Google Analytics data.
I'm following this tutorial on how to do it:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034840?hl=en
If your network is IPv6 ...
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Multiple Data Layers
We are inheriting a couple sites which each have existing UA codes. One site has a data layer that we are assuming is from GTM. Is that correct? Will multiple accounts affect future tracking and/or ...
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Custom event table report with custom event parameter in Google Analytics? Is this possible?
I'm sending the following custom event from my web app.
gtag("event", "amazon_click", {
"event_category": "engagement",
"event_label": "User clicked on Amazon link",
"asin": asin
});
You can ...
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What happens if Analytics gtag.js cookie for the user ID expires? Does it keep the same user unique ID for the next cookie?
From:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/cookies-user-id#cookie_update
Cookie update
When cookie_update is set to true (the default value), gtag.js will ...
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In Google Analytics, what is the Medium and Source for a page view that was originated from an internal link?
In Google Analytics, whenever we log a page_view event it will also log the "Medium" and the "Source" for that page view.
For example, if a user came through Organic search from Google, you would see ...
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Multiple URL's in Google Analytics Goals Funnel Step
Have a landing page with 3 packages: 1 of the product, 3 of the product, 6 of the product, each option has their own checkout URL but all will have /thank-you in the URL once purchased.
So they all ...
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Google Analytics Content Group, do I use gtag set or gtag config?
I am trying to separate my site pages using "content group" in google analytics.
So that I track how different page titles perform.
I don't know which of these two is the right way to modify html ...
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Possibility to make website analytics public?
let's say I wanted to make a google analytics report public (for example to include it through in iframe in an existing website) -- is there any way to do this?
ga would be my first choice, but I ...
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In Google Analytics can the URL path of the page be used for the “medium” of direct traffic?
In Google Analytics I have a lot of source:direct medium:none in Traffic Sources. Is it possible to have the page's URL in "medium" instead of none?
In other words, if someone enters my website ...
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Difference between Landing Page and Starting Page [duplicate]
This question is regarding Google Analytics Behavior Flow.
What is the difference between a landing page and a starting page?
I can't find a definite answer anywhere. Some people have suggested the ...
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How to prevent from fbclid (facebook click ID) from polluting google analytics?
Whenever someone from Facebook clicks on my site's link. fbclid is appended to the actual link which pollutes the entire thing in google analytics.
For example say I have a page domain.com/contact ...
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How can I track which links are clicked on which pages in Google Analytics?
Consider a website with these three pages:
<!-- example.com/shirts -->
<body>
<a href="amazon.com/red-shirt">
<a href="amazon.com/blue-shirt">
<a href="amazon.com/fabric-...
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Google Analytics reports all real-time views, but doesn't reflect in overview fully
My analytics was working normally, when suddenly in the middle of the day it stopped recording almost all pageviews/sessions in the overview and general views. Tracking works normally, everything ...
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How to use utm_source with Github analytics
I have a resource hosted in a public Github repository. I am using Github Analytics to estimate the traffic coming to the resource. Since Github also shows referring sites on the traffic page, I'd ...
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How to add site speed over the users chart in Google Analytics?
I am looking at a default "audience" chart, it shows total users per day, how can I add data over that chart in order to see average page speed ?
So that I can see total users per day vs average ...
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How is it possible that Google Analytics is showing a high bounce rate (50%) on a cart and checkout page?
The cart and checkout pages are not landing pages so it isn't possible for that to be the first page in their session. The exit rate is way too low (approximately 15%) which signals to me that the ...
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Why does my Facebook Analytics have so many unknown values?
I've checked whether I install the code correctly and it seems fine. Do you know why is that?
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See Google Analytics tracking stats from short cross domain redirect URL used in print media
I am using a different domain for some ads to track how many people access the main site through this domain.
How can I see this in Google Analytics?
I have DOMAIN A (on the ad) redirecting to ...
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Neil Patel's ubersuggest report showing that I have duplicate title tags
I am not sure if anyone on here has used Ubersuggest to help with their SEO efforts? I am currently using this tool and have conducted a website report. However one of the concerns from the report ...
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In Google Tag Manager I have two Google Analytic tags, and want to know if my setup is correct
Google analytics beginner here.
I'm developing a new way to capture custom dimensions for my team's site, and I want to know if there's anything that looks wrong with my setup.
In Google Tag Manager,...
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Can Google Analytics be configured to merge keywords that differ only in capitalization / case sensitivity?
I'm looking at my company's paid keywords under Acquisition > Google Ads > Keywords in Analytics, and I notice that I have two separate results for my brand keyword, e.g.
example ... (not the real ...
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How to see e-commerce data in Firebase Analytics
I'm currently in the process of setting up Firebase Analytics for my apps on iOS and Android. I already have an "old" Google Analytics property that allows me to see all the basic things that Firebase ...
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How do I unblock Google Analytics from adblockers and ublock?
I want an accurate picture of all the visitors landing on the website and converting. Unfortunately, the adblocker tools also block Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, I am using the newer script
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Why is the http version of my website still receiving the most search traffic?
I am trying to identify sources of unattributable, "direct" traffic to my website. One source is http links from https websites - e.g. Google search results - because the referrer is stripped when ...
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Proven ways to run on-page SEO experiments at scale?
What techniques do you use to run on-page SEO experiments at scale?
Let's say we want to measure the impact of a <title> change.
We currently handpick a set of pages, monitor the SEO KPIs such ...
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Set User-ID tracking on website and make User-ID View on GA
I'd like to set User-ID tracking on my website and make User-ID View on GA.
For my goal, I'd like to use Attribution Analytics(※) based on User-ID.
But, Analytics Help writes only that User-ID View ...
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How to use User Ids in Firebase analytics?
We have been using firebase for months now. But we started putting user_id via setUserId() in android application as follow:
firebaseAnalytics.setUserId(viewModel.userInfo.id)
I can see these user-...
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Facebook Analytics - Breakdown table “Value” column
I have a simple question - in the below picture, what does the "Value" column mean? I can't find any documentation on it, and I don't know enough about the metrics to derive it from context here. ...
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Has Google Analytics started bumping up the Time to Interactive on your site?
I've noticed that since the 13th of May, the Time to Interactive metric reported by Lighthouse on my website has increased quite dramatically. After a bit of investigation, I found this in the ...
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Is Google's new vs. returning users metric reliable? How do I gauge user loyalty? [duplicate]
I have a quick question regarding new vs. returning users -
I know that new and returning users usually don't add up to users because of duplications, and "users" could be considered as the de-duped ...
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Can using same tracking number trigger two instances of Google Analytics page view count?
If you write the same Gtag code with the same ID twice, can it trigger 2 page views in Google Analytics, or does Google filter for these double cases?
So would it be possible to artificially increase ...
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Is bounce rate of a website a ranking factor? [duplicate]
I have heard this from many SEO experts that a website with less bounce rate will rank well on Google. But what if the website does not use any analytics tools to calculate bounce rate, how will then ...
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Google Analytics - Conversion count assigned to channels
In the Google Analytics Channel Report i can see how many conversions where made through this channel. Now i wonder is it the first or the last interaction in the conversion-path which assigns a ...
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Google analytics: Exclude users who leave landing page immediately?
My company used to sell some old tablets that were programmed to enter a specific landing page for their device - For example a Samsung Tab S would enter www.mycompany.com/Samsung-tabs.
After a ...
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How to calculate estimate MAU using Similarweb data?
If we have AWS with ~52M monthly visitors can we decide what MAU it has?
Let's pretend, one user goes to the AWS website every working day:
52M/20 = 2,6M users. Is that close to the truth?
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Safari in app browser huge bounce rate in Google Analytics?
For the past 7 days I ran a Facebook ad.
Today I decided to track how users behave and I noticed a huge bounce rate coming from Safari In App browser and Android webview. It was 91% as compared to ...
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Bad robots kill my SEO with high bounce rate on certain pages [duplicate]
They open a page and then leave immediately. What's the best practice to fight it? Time 1-2 s, bounce rate = 100%
I googled several services, for example this one shows this IPs like spam, but they ...
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Do Google Analytics filters accept regex for IP address rules?
I usually use regular expressions a lot in GA filters, but I'm also usually adding "custom" filters.
The IP address predefined filter accepts values per the screenshot below
Usually I'd expect this ...
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GA - Days since last session - when there are multiple sessions in a time frame
What about if the time frame I am looking at is 7 days and some users return more than once?
If a user visits monday, than returns wednesday, and then again thursday, that would count 1, 2 or 3 days?
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How to measure purchases on a site when traffic is coming from a particular source?
We have a website which sells products. Soon we are launching some new featured products and have created a microsite on a subdomain to advertise these products and to push customers to the main site ...
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Google Search Console reports almost no impressions or clicks after migrating to HTTPS
One of our website has ranked well on Google and showed good Google Impression & Clicks etc.. Around July we implemented SSL for our website and website was now only available over https://www....
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Goal isn't triggered when visitors come to the homepage from inner page. Why?
Here's the situation.
On the homepage, there's a CTA that has a goal on it in Analytics.
I have a blog for my website. Lots of links inside the blog to the homepage. Lots of visits on the blog ...
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Track a user over multiple sessions in analytics
I have a site that is sending me visitors with a referrer in the query string (example.com/refer=bob for example). I do not have control over the string sent, but it's always the same.
If the ...
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How do I set up Google Analytics for two domains that share the same source code and content?
I have 2 different domains - say - abc.example & xyz.example.
Both domains point to the same server (same A record, same shared hosting account).
Now if I want to setup google analytics for both ...
