Questions tagged [analytics]
For questions related to analytics methods and tools.
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On Google Analytics 4, can I create Custom Dimensions & Metris at the account level?
I have an account with 3 properties. They all will use the same custom dimensions & custom metrics.
Can I set those at the account level? Or will I have to replicate the same settings for each one ...
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In Google Analytics, when sending an event, do I need to send “page_path” or does it automatically get it from the last “page_view”?
When I send an even through Google Analytics, more specifically GA4, is that event automatically "linked" to a page_path?
I mean, if I send 2 events on /page-a and 4 events from /page-b, I ...
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Can I use Google Analytics 4 custom dimensions in the Analysis Hub?
In the Analysis Hub:
Can I use a custom dimension I've previously added?
For example:
I'll send the following events and I would like to do analysis based on one of its parameters:
gtag("event&...
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Google Analytics: why are the # of unique page views different from # of sessions of a segment on page level?
I have a page abc123.
Google Analytics tells me that this page abc123 has 1000 unique page views.
I create a segment on session-level with the condition: page==abc123.
Google Analytics tells me that ...
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Can I use Google Analytics 4 to track purchases made from a mobile app to a user who downloads a mobile app from our site?
I have a website and a mobile app (Android and iOS). Say the user visits our website https://example.com/app-xy, clicks on a link to the Play Store, and downloads the app from there. Then inside the ...
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How to export full list of outbound clicks in GA4?
I have Google Analytics 4 with "Outbound click" enhanced measurement enabled.
In my Events tab, I can see that clicks are being tracked and it has a counter for each unique outbound link.
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How to separate 2 different types of search events in my Google Analytics data?
I've got two kinds of searches in my website:
/blog/search?q=some-blogpost
/products/search?q=some-product
I want to be able to analyze the searches my users are making on both of those channels ...
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How to send data to multiple tracking ID's using gtag.js?
I have a website that is present in multiple countries.
It's a single page app, and the country-specific information and translation is handled by the domain. My code detects if it's on a es domain ...
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How to add multiple properties to Cloudflare Web Analytics?
I start using Cloudflare Web Analytics and I would like to add multiple properties in order to have analytics on multiple website but I couldn't find how.
Is there any limitation, or is that reserved ...
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How to add a goal in Google Analytics based on the fragment identifier?
I want to add Goal in Google Analytics with the same URL twice with a different values such as
www.example.com/checkout#shipping
www.example.com/checkout#payment
these are on the same page with ...
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Can I use scripts to block other script or block/rewrite HTTP requests?
I'm building a personal website using this premade Enterprise-class CMS because it has both the blogging and wiki/docs parts in one package, it's not as gorgeous as a Wordpress site can get but it's ...
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Cross Domain Tracking with Multiple GA UA Properties, Single GTM Container
I have a client who wants to route page views into separate GA Properties based off a returnUrl UTM. I am trying to configure this in one tag using one GTM container. I know that using cookies for ...
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Hour of day of a pageview/event/purchase, but in the visitor's timezone?
Note: this is totally different to Visits Time-of-day Histogram for last week in Google Analytics, for the reason explained below.
It's possible to view the "hour of day" of pageviews/...
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Does bit.ly pass info about referrer? [duplicate]
So that I will be able to see where people that used my bit.ly link come from?
I already checked it with Chrome dev tool in Network tab but there is no info.
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What are Weiterleitungshinweis Backlinks in the Ubersuggest SEO tool?
Today I was checking my old backlinks and I saw my competitor making backlinks exactly where I have created it, so I tried to check his backlinks using the Ubersuggest tool (by Neil Patel) and I saw ...
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How can I access data from before the last 30 days on Google Analytics?
Google Analytics' maximum date range seems to be last 30 days. There is 0 chance this is actually the maximum viewable age of data, given how crucial it is for webmasters to compare current data to ...
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Exit “Events” on one site drastically differ from the corresponding “Acquisition” data on another site
I have a site (mysite) that refers users to another (othersite). Tracking how many referrers mysite sends to the othersite is crucial. I have access to analytics for both.
On mysite, when a user ...
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Clarity Errors: CORS Policy Violations and HTTP 503
I followed the official setup guide to add Microsoft Clarity on my website using Google Tag Manager. I am getting CORS policy violation errors and 503 errors on my website. Some outbound requests to ...
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Consolidate Analytics accounts — or not
I am IT for a company who hosts 600+ websites for individual businesses. So with that said, we manage analytics for these accounts as well. And for all but about 50, they only care about the basics, ...
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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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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 ...
