Questions tagged [google-analytics]
Google Analytics is a free web analytics solution provided by Google, featuring several client-side APIs, as well as REST APIs for Data Export and for Management.
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How to fight off Google Analytics referrer spammers?
Last months I have lots of referrer spammers in my GA statistics. Their count is ~10x higher than count of legit visitors (my site is not very popular yet). I've turned on an option to hide known ...
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Huge drop [50%] in traffic after HTTPS move
Currently look after 3 websites. I changed one of them to be HTTPS as it's ecommerce, however have seen a huge drop in organic traffic since this was implemented. Went from around 800 impressions to ...
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Could somebody hijack my Google Analytics for a site?
I track many websites in Google Analytics. Recently I accidentally added tracking code for site A to site B, which I noticed a couple of weeks later. By then, one website had two weeks of no visitors, ...
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When using Google and Facebook for social login, how to prevent misattributed session referrers and goal conversions in Google Analytics?
I am seeing quite a few conversions which have as source accounts.google.com (almost 40%).
AFAIK, in the new Universal Analytics as soon as a user has a Referrer set a new session is started. So if a ...
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Google Search Console domain property not in the list of properties I can add to Google Analytics
I'm trying to connect a domain property to a google analytics domain. But when the property I added is not in the list of properties where I can choose from.
All the other properties are. The big ...
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Is traffic coming from URL shorteners treated as direct?
Traffic coming form shortened URLs like bit.ly, do they show up in Google Analytics as direct or do they keep their real referrer?
Ex.: if someone types in a bit.ly link it counts as direct, but if ...
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How can I find the IP address for my visitors in Google Analytics Universal reports?
Does anyone know if/where I can find IP addresses of my visitors in Google Analytics Universal reports?
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How does google calculate bounce rate?
We run a website where we sell access to a member area.
We use Google analytics to optimize the site but i have a bounce rate in about 85%. The problem is that I'm not sure what count as a bounce ...
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How do you exclude yourself from Google Analytics on your website using cookies?
I'm trying to set up an exclusion filter with a browser cookie, so that my own visits to my don't show up in my Google Analytics. I tried 3 different methods and none of them have worked so far. I ...
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Problem integrating Adsense with Google Analytics
(Cross-posted to Web Applications)
I've posted it once to the adsense ad forum, but as usual Google does not respond to help requests, and I got no real answers.
I am having issues integrating my ...
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How do I add the an expires header for external URL components as suggested by GTmetrix and YSlow?
I am trying to decrease the loading time of my website which is hosted in Bluehost. So when I check the performance scores via GTmetrix under YSlow section it mention to "Add expire headers" for four ...
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Site too large to officially use Google Analytics?
We just got this email from the Google Analytics team:
We love that you love our product and use it as much as you do. We have observed however, that a website you are tracking with Google Analytics ...
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Is there a better analytics package than Google Analytics? [closed]
I've used Google Analytics for a while now, and it's pretty good for a high level view. But when I want to dig into the numbers a bit more, everything gets kind of vague. I also don't like that it ...
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Someone else is using our Google Analytics Tracking code number. What do we do?
After looking over our Analytics today, I realized that another website is also using our same tracking code #, which is cause quite a few incorrect hits to our Analytics.
Are there any ways to ...
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One multi-domain analytics profile, or one analytics profiles per domain?
I currently run a small web-app that connects local businesses with new customers in a very specific niche. In the past few months this model has worked very well and the growth is excellent, so much ...
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Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the law? Google or the developer?
So Google uses cookies when performing its usual duties of tracking users on a website. That is just it though; Google are setting the cookies and not your website as such. This is by virtue of the ...
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Why might Google Analytics report a sudden, but persistent, drop in bounce rate (70% to 12%)
I was tracking data for a site and realize that there is a sudden drop in bounce rate in Google Analytics. The sudden drop happened across 2 days and remained consistent after.
The bounce rate in ...
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Less than half of Facebook ad clicks are visible in Google Analytics
We have a website that we advertise via Facebook, but in Google Analytics only 30-50% of the clicks appear. (The page is not really public yet, so I cannot post a link here)
We already did several ...
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Google Analytics: How can I track between http:// and https:// profiles for a domain?
I'm trying to set up tracking on a project that I'm working on.
The main site is at http://www.example.com/
The order page is at https://www.example.com/index.php
Currently they have two different ...
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Huge drop off in Google "indexed" pages after switching to HTTPS, should I switch back to HTTP?
I did a full redesign of my website to make it responsive (bootstrap), added localization, and also switched the whole website to use HTTPS.
My website use to default to http://www.domain.com/ and ...
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Does Google Analytics data affect SEO?
I have several pages on my site that I did not include the Google Analytics code. Will it improve my site's Google ranking if I include the GA on all of my pages and increase the number of visits on ...
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What can I do if someone else used my Google Analytics tracking code to spam me?
Today when I'm checking my Google Analytics report, I got the warning:
Google Search Quality has detected that one or more sites associated with the property ****** likely has been compromised.
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Google Search Console vs. Google Analytics Data Difference
I manage a number of sites for an Agency, and in pretty much all of them I see huge differences in the Search Queries data that you get from Search Console, vs. the integrated one you get in Analytics,...
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How can I block traffic from this referrer?
I'm getting a lot of spam referral traffic from semalt.semalt.com/referral on my website. I took a look at the link and there’s very little information about this.
The number of website visits is ...
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Google Analytics: How to remove unwanted entries
It's been a couple of days and I am seeing entries like this on GA. How can I avoid such entries beside analytics_test?
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Google Analytics - Traffic Source - Search engine - (Not Provided)
I am using Google Analytics, now here when I go to "Traffic Source Overview" under that it shows Keyword as "(Not provided)" which is almost 40% of my traffic source. Now more than 90% of search ...
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How to track a download with Google Analytics?
I have a download file that is protected with a reCAPTCHA. Is there a way to track the downloads (both attempts and completed) with Google Analytics?
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Finding the email/account associated with a Google Analytics "UA-XXXXXX-X" id?
I set up Google Analytics for a client some time ago, so the tracking code is installed. I can't for the life of me find which email account I used to set it up, so now I can't access the stats. We ...
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Changing default date range in Google Analyics?
Is there a way to change the default date range of 31 days in GA? After changing it and clicking apply, only the current report changes? Next time I use GA, 31 days again???
Here is documentation on ...
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How to excludes my visits from Google Analytics?
I have integrated Google Sites website with Google Analytics and I access the website frequently to add more content. I want Google Analytics to track visits from real visitors only. How can I ...
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Block social-buttons.com / simple-share-buttons.com Referral Spam
How to remove social-buttons.com / simple-share-buttons.com this type of lots of Referral Spam link they increase 100% bounce rate
How to remove this type of referral spam link in via .htaccess or ...
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Why does Google Analytics show more users than sessions?
My Google Analytics page shows almost twice as many Users than Sessions. It really doesn't make sense to me, does anybody know what's the reason for this?
Here is a snapshot from my GA dashboard:
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How can I tell Google Analytics to not use cookies for my sub domain?
I have my web site at example.com, and i have also setup a sub domain for serving static content at static.example.com.
On my web pages I'm using Google Analytics, so it will attach its cookies to all ...
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Google Analytics: How can I exclude a country from reports?
Hi is it possible to exclude traffic from a certain country in google analytics?
If yes, how do I do it?
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Is there any benefit of Google Analytics asynchronous tracking code if it isn't placed in the <head>?
I'd like to go to the asynchronous Google Analytics script, but I'd rather not have it in the head (even though I know this is best practice).
So, is there any benefit of using the async code if it ...
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Huge difference in visits/hits between IIS logs and google analytics
I use google analytics to monitor visitors access, and I am very happy with it, easy to use blabla, you name it :)
Few days ago I copied IIS logs from website and used free/evaluation commercial log ...
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Very few visitors on Analytics: incorrect setting?
it's quite a long time Analytics is making me crazy: I have a 2 years old website, started with Aruba (an Italian provider) and then transfered on Hostgator. It's a blog Wordpress + MyBB forum, and on ...
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Filter to show complete URL (including subdomain) in Google Analytics reports
I have a subdomain on my website and am unable to get some data individually for the main domain and subdomain. For example, both the homepages are counted as one with the "/".
I have seen some ...
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Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup
I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I couldn'...
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Google PageSpeed, optimizing Google's own elements
I'm trying Google's PageSpeed online service
Ironically, it's primarily highlighting Google's own services as something that needs improvement on my site
1) jQuery from Google: blocking. So I moved ...
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How does duplicate Google Analytics tracking code affect a site?
I have a site where I can see that the tracking code has been added twice (once in the Drupal GA module, and once added manually in the template file).
Both scripts are pointing to the exact same ...
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Can organic traffic be spoofed in Google Analytics the same way as 'Refer spam'
Ive recently seen a large spike in organic traffic to a website in Google Analytics, to diagnose the spike ive done / will do (will do becuase some of the data is not available yet) the following :
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A lot of "(direct) / (none)" traffic in Google Analytics
my web site has a lot of "(direct) / (none)" traffic (over 50%) in Google Analytics, but under the "Audience", 100% are new visitors, why is that?
I am quite sure most of the Audience should be new ...
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View referrals from one part of my site to another in Google Analytics
I have an online shop with a blog structured this way:
Shop: example.com
Blog: example.com/blog
Both index have the same Google Analytic Code (UA).
In the blog I write articles about some products ...
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Google Analytics, how to show behavior flow for specific path?
Using Google Analytics, my website has 1000's of visits across a few hundred URLs.
I'm trying to see how users accessed specific paths and where they went to afterwards. Like in behavior flow where ...
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Can Google Analytics be linked to a Search Console property set?
My site is available as either:
http://example.com/
https://example.com/
Users can choose which to use. I have both added as properties in Google Search Console and the two show different data in ...
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Tracking subdomains in Google Analytics
I set up a subdomain and Google Analytics is showing traffic for the subdomain.
However, going into Content section, GA is not showing pageviews of the pages of the subdomain. Instead, GA lumps all ...
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When reversing a Google Analytics e-commerce transaction is the per-unit price positive or negative?
Google's own instructions for reversing an e-commerce transaction seem to contradict themselves regarding the unit price.
In the instructions it states
The item field has a positive per-unit ...
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Google analytics - drop in traffic
Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones.
The problem we are getting, and sorry for being so general here, is we ...
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How can I find page views for root of web site in Google Analytics?
Most of our traffic doesn't come to the root of our web site.
But I would like to know just how much does? It seems like an easy thing to do, and an easy thing to search for, but so far I haven't ...
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