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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Track link clicks to external website sent via SMS
I have a website created in Webflow. My company (let's call it myco.example) sends out texts to customers with a link to our client's scheduling page on their website. We created a shorter vanity URL ...
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Expand Behavior's Grouped pages in Google Analytics
Google Analytics groups multiple pages together under the Behavior section making it difficult to trace a user's flow from page to page. For instance, at the bottom of Behavior Flow, there's usually ...
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Google Search Console not showing proper other pages results (they are indexed)
i have a website and than i have a wordpress blog in /blog route of that site they are kind of independent for now since i havent done any internal linking on them so i created this new post n my blog ...
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How do I manually calculate average session duration?
can anyone help me tell the exact formula of the average session duration where to get from? I'm having trouble finding a manual calculation of the average session duration
For example, from the ...
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Google Analytics setup for a site with many subdomains
I'm looking for best practice solutions for Google Analytics for a site which has many (1000s) of subdomains as part of a WP multisite network. Each subdomain is independent of each other (i.e. there ...
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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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How to measure number and rate of users, who performed ANY of conversions from set?
I have 2 conversion events, let's say A and B.
How do I find number of users, who performed any of them. It means A, B, (A & B) all counts as 1.
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Find external site which sends 404 URL to my website
For almost an year I have been getting users to a particular page which does not exist in my website. This page for sure is not an internal link and my website runs on WordPress.
My site is almost ...
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Does Google Analytics track 404 page responses as valid page views?
I'm interested to know what counts as a valid page view. I would assume a server status code in the 200 range would be valid. And anything 300, 400, 500 related would not be counted.
Can anyone ...
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Unable to track pop up pages using google analytics
I am trying to track a pop up page using google analytics js. But on load the javascript always seems to be undefined or uncaught reference error as below.
Can any one guide me if any thing I am ...
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Google Analytics page for getting my site's tracking code is stuck loading
I have just made a google analytics account. When I get on and go to the tracking code tab my website is stuck loading.
I have tried the following:
Restarting my computer
Clearing my cache and ...
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Robots visitors to my home page inflating Google Analytics stats
1 to 4 visitors seems to be visiting my site and then returning every few minutes. They are fake (seem like robots). I'm not sure how to get rid of them or filter them out because they are not coming ...
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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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Can I give a third party access to Google Analyticis for a specific page and/or subdomain without disclosing other information
Working with several agencies who might need access to google analytics, we are wondering whether it is possible to give only access to specific pages or subdomains.
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Seeing numbers for domain redirects on Google Analytics
My friend maintains a website with the domain example.com. She also owns the domains example.org and example.net, which both do a 301 redirect to example.com. She uses Google Analytics on example.com.
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Do I require GDPR user consent for Google Analytics if “anonymizeIp” is enabled?
I can't seem to find a reliable answer to this question. As IP addresses are considered PII under the EU's GDPR, it seems important that Google Analytics tracking is placed behind a cookie consent ...
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Can you reuse Measurement Protocol parameters across analytics events of the same session?
We would like to extend our existing event tracing backend with Google Analytics. Our first call of the session sends some e.g. sr (screen resolution). Subsequent calls of the same session don't send ...
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Invalid traffic data in GA
Judging by GA statistics, my young site is visited by 20 people a day. At the same time, Hotjar recorded 100 visitors in just 2 hours. These are really unique visitors with long sessions.
How is this ...
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How to filter (not set) country in Google Analytics?
I'm currently getting tens of thousands of hits from bots on my site and I'd like to filter that traffic from my Google Analytics reports.
The traffic comes without geo information, has 0:00 session ...
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Best practice for GA goals and cleaner completion URLs?
Not sure how to look this up but some of what I've come across doesn't seem to answer what I'm looking for.
So two things:
Is there a method to clear or track the URLs with ad parameters? (I still ...
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Google tag assistant reports: “Same web property ID is tracked twice”when trying to install google analytics code
I was trying to install google analytics code into our google tag manager at first I installed the GTM and add a tag which I grabbed from tracking ID and after all that it doesn't seem to appear an ...
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Google analytics how to find Active Users by host name
We've got an web based enterprise application which has GA hooked into it. Previously i've just been viewing the active user count to see what our count is across the board. Im wanting to get the ...
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Google Analytics events not working
I'm trying to send an analytics event on a button click and it's not working. When I look in Analytics reports in Realtime > Events section, I can see one active user (the site isn't public yet, so ...
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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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I have a youtube video on my page - how can I see play events on Google Analytics?
I have a youtube video embedded on my website. How do I see how many play events happened on each day, from which sources etc?
I use Wix, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager.
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How can I tweak the Google Analytics tag via Google Tag Manager to enable Enhanced Link Attribution
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/enhanced-link-attribution after reading the docs I'd like to edit the UA tag in GTM to add this line:
ga('require', 'linkid');
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High GA Bounce Rate Issue
Enormously high bounce rate on our blog & individual blog posts as well. We use Yoast SEO premium plugin on our blog. Some changes went live on the website on 1st May and we are not able to ...
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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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Why i get less visitors in google analytics? [duplicate]
I started having fewer organic visitors in the Google Analytics report, but when I check the search console, I always get the same number of clicks, for example, I get 1400 clicks in the search ...
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How to track from which area of the website does the users enter a specific page?
I would like to see from which area of my web site does the users enter a specific page.
For instance, I have this category page: /Nike-Shoes. There are many places that the users can enter to this ...
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Google Analytics: Need to understand some data in user flow
I just started using Google Analytics, for learning purpose, I'm a little obsessed with some data discrepancy, hope someone can explain to me.
I was checking user flow by landing page
Here it shows ...
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Why is my All Accounts > All Web site Data empty in Google Analytics, but specific accounts are nonempty?
I'm trying to consolidate a Google Data Studio report with traffic from all my client's sites. However, when I go to Google Analytics, and select "All accounts" on Analytics accounts, again ...
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How to view events per user/session in Google Analytics dashboard?
I've added custom segments of the users that did the specified event category. However, I can't view simultaneously number of users and number of events on the same dashboard, which should have been ...
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Google analytics embed API limits
If I use google Embed APIs to build a custom dashboard in my website, how does the limits work ? I understand it internally uses the google core reporting APIs.
Is there any limits to this API ?
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Tracking if event “B” fires after event “A”?
I've been trying to figure this out with the Event Flow report but my issue is that I don't care if event "A" is the first event fired in the session. I just need a way to count how many times event "...
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Why events are not showing in custom table although events are seen in the real time report of Google Analytics 360 property
Events are coming in the real time report of Google Analytics but these events are not populating in the custom table.
Considering thousands of events are being fired per second. Is it possible that ...
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Website rebuilt, google analytics only getting old URLs
I recreated my website on a new server and create a brand new Google Analytics property for it. It's been running for a week, the problem is literally all my pageviews recorded are pointing to old ...
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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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Track visitors across different domains using Google Analytics even when they don't click between the sites
Apparently there are ways to track visitors across different domain using google analytics as described in documentation here and here.
It follows the principle where a visitor click on a link on ...
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How do I create/modify/delete custom segments within the Google Analytics mobile app?
Within the Google Analytics Android app I am able to select the 'Segments' option and see a list of Custom and System segments. I think I may have created these custom ones at some point, although so ...
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Why is the Google Analytics keyword report showing items that start with “cache:”?
When I check Google Analytics, I see some keywords like cache:2933b974en0J:https://example.com/subservice/well-digging
Why is this showing in google analytics?
What is the problem? How can I solve it?...
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Malicious bot - mulitple cities and browsers
I have a very small website, in a very competitive niche, that may receive a 100 hits a day, mostly for long tail keywords in blog posts. Yesterday and today I have been receiving dozens of hits per ...
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Google Analytics - Filter query - include subfolder / subdirectory
I am using CYFE app to view my Google Analytics.
I'd like to filter only traffic coming to my 'blog' subfolder. So I need to filter only traffic that comes to domain.com/blog
CYFE is asking to ...
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Using data-analytics-action within Analytics
I was going through stripe.com's source code and noticed pretty much all their links have these attibutes:
data-analytics-action=""
data-analytics-source=""
data-convert-cta=""
Obviously these are ...
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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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Google analytics setup convention followed
We have to setup google analytics to different environments - stage and production for now.
Just wondering what is the right convention to follow. I am using google tag manager.
Use tag manager and ...
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Should the Google Analytics utm_medium from Facebook Ads be cpc or display?
Facebook Ads: cpc vs. display?
What is the optimal way to set up UTM tracking from Facebook Ads for maximum benefit in Google Analytics in 2020?
Typically you see everyone recommending to set the ...
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Could these URL tracking parameters be causing data discrepency between Facebook Ads and Google Analytics?
Problem:
We're seeing a lot of traffic from (direct) / (none) in GA whenever a Facebook Ads campaign is launched — it's always the top source/medium pair.
In second place, there's some fb / ...
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Google Analytics and Tag manager to track multiple subdomains
I am trying to track multiple subdomains on my site. Eg: I have example.com as the main domain, abc.example.com, xyz.example.com as the subdomains.
I am using google tag manager and installed the ...
