Questions tagged [analytics]
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Best Way To Implement Site Analytics in WordPress [closed]
I ran an SEO audit on my WP site and one of the recommendations was to "Implement an analytics tracking tool" so I figure instead of just adding any old plugin or adding the code to the page ...
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How do you group a large amount of specific URLs together in Google Analytics?
How do you group a large amount of specific URLs together in Google Analytics?
Each URL is specific and doesn't have a similar URL structure.
I tried content grouping but it only allows (I believe 20-...
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Google Analytics is not tracking properly. I need help diagnosing the issue
About two weeks ago, the bounce rate for pages on my sight dropped drastically. We went from an average of 70%-80% bounce a page to 2%-20%. It's an absolutely drastic change overnight. While I'd love ...
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Google Analytics - exclude outliers days in sessions graph
How can I exclude outliers days (spikes) in a Google analytics graph (sessions from organic search per day) ? I've had 2 very good days but those spikes make the graph very hard to read. See the graph ...
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Website Funnel Tracking with Google Analytics Goals
I'm really struggling to find a solution for what seems to be a basic tracking setup in Google Analytics.
So the main target objective (Goal?) of the following Website is to generate Newsletter ...
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How to exclude URL parameters from Google Analytics reports?
The number of unique URLs on our site exceeds the limit in our Google Analytics. We tried to exclude URL Query Parameters in the View Settings but it doesn't work, GA continue to record all of them as ...
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How to track site search without query parameters in the URL?
I want to be able to track the site searches, but the site search on my site is not a dynamic search. Users can’t just type and enter the search button. They have to click on a pre-set result that ...
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From Analytics data, easy way to get % of visitors with a screen resolution of X or larger
Is there any easy way to use the Analytics data of a website, for example on google analytics, and query it to get the % of users with a browser resolution of X or larger?
It's good to know the top ...
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What is the exact difference between Google Analytics Sessions by Type and Top Channels, why am I getting different results on my reports?
In Google Analytics -> Acquisition -> Overview you can get a month to month comparison of Top Channels which shows incoming traffic for direct, organic, etc. In my Customization -> Dashboards ...
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Is Google Analytics considered a tracker that violates user privacy?
I like having Analytics on my site for all the great stats it provides, but I am aware that my customers don't necessarily want to be tracked.
But my understanding is that GA isn't a "tracker&...
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What is parameter ?fbclid on Google Analytics?
If I check my google anaytics I see this :
/xxxxxxxxxx-step is the number of people accessing this page
But I find /xxxxxxxxxx-step?fbclid=xxxxxxxxxx too. What is that? Is that the number of people ...
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Can Google Analytics track visitor behavior?
I read this reference https://www.codehousegroup.com/insight-and-inspiration/digital-strategy/sitecore-analytics-vs-google-analytics
There said that what makes sitecore analytics different from ...
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Why does Google Optimize experiment segment show error message while trying to access behaviour flow?
I have a simple question whenever I try accessing behaviour flow with an Experiment ID with variant segment it gives me this error message - This segment contains constraints that cannot be applied to ...
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Do I need to add the Google Tag Manager if I already have Google Analytics?
I have google analytics in my website like this :
<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-xxxxxxxx-1"></...
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Google Analytics: Embedded Contact Forms Are Being Counted as Referral Sources
We use iframe contact forms from a marketing software provider. When someone lands on our site and fills out a form, they are redirected to a thank you page.
However, the domain of these iframes is ...
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How do you calculate Monthly churn from Google Analytics?
Since cohort analysis is in beta, It does not show the monthly retention for more than 3 months from today's date.(Since for a given month 100-retention% is that month's churn%)
I searched for a ...
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How do I deal with false data sent to the analytics server I'm building?
I want to add analytics to my website but I do not want to use google analytics. My idea was to create an express server and expose a public analytics endpoint where I send my requests to.
This is ...
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Is it possible to amalgamate analytics from Facebook, Instagram, et cetera into Google Analytics
I would like to have a single source of truth for my company's analytics tracking.
The company is a start-up Martial Arts Online Academy focusing (now) on exercise-at-home.
Currently I've set up ...
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Find users of a specific page with visit time in google analytics
I need to find users of a specific page with visit time in google analytics.
like this report
example.com/example
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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 update ...
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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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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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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. ...
