Questions tagged [analytics]
For questions related to analytics methods and tools.
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Missing Google Shopping Clicks in Analytics
I want to get the click cost data from Google Shopping into Analytics but isn't working the way I want.
The clicks from Google Shopping are not coming through. I am filtering on the keyword but ...
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How get download stats in Matomo analytics for static content that's served by my CDN (Cloudflare)?
I'm considering enabling Cloudflare for my site, which will make it so that static content is loaded from their servers instead of mine. If that's the case, how can I tally the request in our ...
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If you change Webalizer settings, will those new settings only apply to future months?
I am considering using Webalizer for my sites, but I'd like to verify something I am reading in the configuration/readme files first. Any help is appreciated...
If default configuration file is used, ...
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Can I track visits to a Google Drive file with Google Analytics?
My university's website profile of me has a link to my CV, which is hosted on Google Drive (on my personal account, over which I have ownership).
I would like to track visits to my CV with Google ...
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GTM how to set up a trigger when message pushed to Data Layer doesn't contain Event variable?
When user clicks on a button a message is sent to the Data Layer, with the relevant information, however it doesn't contain Event
To set up a GTM trigger to fire on custom events I need to specify an ...
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how do i search for certain word in a website? [closed]
Is there any way to search within a website without manually checking out every link?
Suppose there is some website www.somewebsite.com and I want to search for a word in all of the pages www....
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Is there a way to track internet connection speeds with Google Analytics?
We have a client who says their website is slow on 3g. We want to compile a report about his users connection speeds through analytics which can show him if optimizing for 3g is worth the cost. Is ...
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What should be the checkpoints if the bounce rate drops below 40%?
We did quite a few changes on the website over the last 2 months and apart from the events triggered what else should I be looking at to investigate the dropped bounce rate?
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Google Analytics behaviour flows multple interactions same page
I am looking at Google Analytics behaviour flows report and can see multiple interactions for the same page name some are on the same column and some are on different columns but with traffic flowing ...
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Will creating a new Google analytics ID for my website give me access to historical data
I do not have access to the original gmail account associated with a GA Account ID, so I can't access the existing analytics that have been collected for a website that I am currently maintaining.
I ...
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Which one to consider for accurate traffic Google Analytics or AWStats
I have been using Google Analytics for long but i am still not convinced why Google Analytics reports less traffic than AWStats, even though i know AWStats reports traffic from bots, spiders etc..
My ...
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Why do my web logs not correspond with the number of clicks from adwords?
I set up a small site a while back and I've never used Adwords before so I thought I'd give it a spin. Basically the problem is that on a given day Google might report that I have had my ad clicked 50 ...
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analytics attribution first vs. last click
Suppose the following scenario:
User visits a blog
User goes to my domain via blog, with a specifically tagged link (source/medium) for that blog only
Session cookie expires
A week later, the same ...
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What information is available about a Domain Name [closed]
What information is available about a domain name (one that is registered) such as the owner. the company, industry, location, context it is used in, or other metadata about the domain name.
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Page Rank: Is it okay for /general-content/ to also have all the content that is on /general-content/specific-content/?
I'm building some pages with before-and-after photo galleries on them, and I'm trying to figure out the best site structure that would yield the highest ranked pages.
There is a page called /before-...
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Free domain redirect with simple statistics? [closed]
I wish to redirect my domain to a social media site.
Until now it's been a 301 redirect provided by the domain registrar.
Domain -> Social media site
But what if I want to collect some simple ...
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Most active hours per day in Firebase Analytics
How can one find in which hours user are most active? There are charts that show daily users, but I need a chart to show for example "active hours" or "traffic per hour in 24 hour" per last week or ...
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View Creation not showing data
I have three views in one of my account. The All data view shows what I assume is all traffic to the website. The second view is the test view. the only filter on that view is "Lowercase". But for ...
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How to filter Google Analytics to see page stats by categories?
A website is available in several languages and has several URL categories. I'd like to know the exact number of sessions per category per language.
Site structure:
www.site.com/en/category1/
www....
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Google adwords app install campaign: UTM parameter tracking [duplicate]
I am running an Universal app install campaign through google adwords.
In ads setting, I couldn't find a manual URL option as it directly associates your app install campaign to the app listed in ...
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Legal Ramifications Of Constantly Checking A Website
Lets say you write a script that checks a URL every few seconds, but on the website there is a counter for how many times a person visits the site.
As a side effect of you checking the site, this ...
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Is it ok to filter sensitive user information from GA hits in GTM (rather than in app)?
I'm using GTM to filter out PII in the data sent to Google Analytics. I do this by only letting GTM send non-PII values to GA.
So the data flow is the following :
app ->(sends full payload)-> GTM ->...
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How can I leave a “footprint” in my access logs for my own visits?
When I analyze my Apache access logs, I want to exclude my own visits from that analysis.
The problem with that is, that I have a dynamic IP, and I don't want to have to watch and note down my IP ...
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Google Analytics property report has different fields for different sites within the same account seemingly based on the age of the site
I have several sites in my google analytics. Taking a specific report: Audience > Overview
I've noticed that there is a different set of metrics below the main graph. Below are two screen captures ...
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Google Analytics unable to filter for_domain/hostname from traffic on specific set of pages report
I am trying to create a custom report in Google Analytics to see the traffic on a specific set of pages. Unfortunately for reasons we cannot ascertain, sometimes the hostname is appended like in the ...
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URL query removal in Google Analytics tracking
We are trying to track all of the page views to certain sites. We ONLY need to know how many folks visit each page. Unfortunately what is happening is Google Analytics (GA) is not aggregating the ...
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How do we track customer lifetime value (LTV) through Google Analytics or our own database?
We operate a cashback site with clients from all over the world. Our business model is pretty simple.
A client registers to us and finds products or services he/she likes.
The client goes to our ...
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Content Groups in Google Analytics/Data Studio - how to drill down to individual page data?
I've set up Content Groups in GA to be able to break down web stats by different areas of the business (we are a law firm). For example - I've set up a Content Group to show me blog pages tagged to ...
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Estimate the number of users that give up before page fully loads using Google Analytics
I work for a company that has a website with incredibly slow page load speed. (The average for the site is around 8 seconds). We use GA for our analytics so for a person to register as a bounce the ...
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Using Google Analytics Behavior to create funnel
I have an AB test running on Instapage that drives traffic to two different checkout process. The flow of the pages is the following:
Landing Page -> Waiting -> First Checkout Step
Landing Page -> ...
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Google Analytics - How to get rid of “Pageviews” in a segment?
How do I get rid of this pageviews line? The other lines are comparing the pageviews of various "pages", but the blue line is the total overall from things not in my segment, and it's making it ...
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Referral traffic from googleasdservices.com in Analytics
I am seeing referral traffic (not a great volume) in GA coming from googleadservices.com - I suspect that this is actually traffic coming from paid remarketing ads so why would this be logged as ...
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How to filter google analytics events flow by event category
I am trying to view the events flow for events only in a single category.
I have read the answer here but this is not exactly right as it suggests filtering by sessions which triggered events in the ...
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How to calculate average daily / monthly pageviews in Google Analytics?
Is it possible to calculate the average daily pageviews or the average monthly pageviews for my website using Google Analytics?
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Google Analytics: Event funnel with multiple events per session
How can we track bounce rates for event funnels with Google Analytics if multiple events occur per session?
As we don’t have an ecommerce app (Web, iPad and Android), but an app where users follow ...
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Tracking where users originally arrived from, across two Google Analytics properties?
I have a marketing site (site A), and an application site (site B). The sole purpose of site A is to encourage users to register on site B, via various marketing content.
The sites run different ...
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Google Analytics: in which channel are the visits from the unpaid custom campaigns included?
If I'd want to present the data using the existing Google Analytics channels, like Paid Search, Social, Referrals, where would the visits coming from unpaid custom campaigns be aggregated?
For ...
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GTM is not triggering custom javascript variable value
I am trying to add a meta tag to website using Google tag manager. But GTM is not triggering the custom javascript variable value. (trigger is happening, but value is missing)
My Custom HTML tag in ...
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95% of visits in Hostname report are from my sites domain, not the IP addresses and host names of clients
Taking a look at the hostname report in Google Analytics more than 95% of the traffic is my sites domain. I'm wondering if this is correct or if something is misconfigured.
When I log into my ...
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Does adobe analytics decrease website performance?
We currently use Adobe analytics for online forms to measure completion rates and field drop-offs. I recently discovered a form that had not been tagged and put in a request for it to be tagged. The ...
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AWStats Screen Sizes not showing in statistics
Awstats 7.6 or 7.7 is not showing the screen sizes and the miscellaneous stats on the statistics page.
I'm using IIS 7.5 on a Windows Server.
All the parameters in the .conf file are correctly set:
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How to keep a list of channels in user's cookie and pass to Google Analytics?
How, if possible, can a list of channels be set to a user's cookie and passed as a custom variable in Google Analytics?
For example, a user clicks on a paid ad on 1/1/2018 and the cookie sets ...
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Use Adobe Analytics to check the number of user paths between pages
How can I check the number of user paths from the one page to the thank you page and error pages in Adobe Analytics?
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How do you explore the reasons of losing traffic with Google Analytics?
Let's say:
you had 10k visitors per month on average in the year 2014,
you have only 5k visitors per month on average in the year 2017
i.e. the traffic has suffered a -50%.
What tools does Google ...
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How to process gtag events in Google Analytics interface?
I am developing a landing page for a chrome extension. So I'd like to set some goals to track clicks to installation button, installation events, etc.
According to the docs, I created few events
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Google Analytics ranking-(loss) because of domain suffix? [duplicate]
I have a general question about Google Analytics. Unfortunately I have not found a satisfactory answer to this on the internet.
My main domain looks like this: www.maindomain.de/de
Can it basically ...
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How To Track Outbound Clicks On Banner Ads Without GA
I cannot use Google Analytics or other premium analytics tools. I can only use AWStats or internal tracking with a PHP script or something like that.
First attempt:
I have already read about how to ...
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Tracking alternatives withing goal funnels
I honestly have no idea how to phrase this better.
I need to take a regular goal funnel tracking and make it report on a few alternatives within one of the steps.
Here's an example: back button ...
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Google Analytics direct traffic dropped by 50% after switching to https
everyone, have a little dilemma and was hoping to get some advice here. I recently installed a new SSL (3 months ago) to force our URL to start with https://. The site was earlier accessible through ...
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Google Analytics combine statistics from different URLs
I am working as a student assistent for a University on a Wordpress website that contains courses.
They want for each course a overview of pageviews. The problem I am facing is that the course ...
