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 do I get social engagement data in Google Analytics?
There's a Social Report under the Audience section. However it shows that none of our visitors are socially engaged. Searching the Google Analytics Help Centre for "social" or "engagement" doesn't ...
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How do you change the url that Google Analytics' In-Page Analytics displays?
In Google Analytics, from the dashboard, clicking 'Content' in the left hand pane, and then clicking 'In-Page Analytics' brings up an awesome interface for seeing where users have actually clicked in ...
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Google Analytics - tracking across sites
We have two websites, A and B. A is tracked with Google Analytics.
Users arrive at site A and log in to site B from there. We have teasers for content on site A on the log out page of site B. So:
A -...
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How can I determine if my site speed is affecting my conversions?
I need to convince my team that our load times are way too high. Load times for the /cart is around 10 seconds and load times for individual pages are around 6 seconds. I've seen all the studies about ...
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Drop in referral data due to HTTP, changed to HTTPS no recovery referral data since (in the last year)
We changed our site from HTTP to HTTPS about a year ago.
We have a static website, with no functionality for user input, so did not see it as an imperative to change to HTTPS anytime sooner, the ...
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UTM tags for transactional emails
I'd like to be able to track visitors from transactional emails in Google Analytics, but I'm not sure what values to use for the UTM tags.
utm_medium should obviously be "email", but what about ...
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multiple webmaster properties http and https to be linked with single google analytics account
We are in transition of migrating our site from http - > https
So as transition takes some time to reflect and also we are doing it in phases. We are maintaining both http and https in webmaster.
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GA ignores tags in utm tagged links
I have a problem with tagged traffic from one social network (odnoklassniki.ru).
All links in our latest posts are tagged and shortened by URL shortener of odnoklassniki (shortened link looks like ...
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80% of Website Traffic coming from Just one Town in USA - Strange?
For the last month, 80% of my total traffic was coming from just one Town in the USA. Here are the attributes:
It is one of the richest towns in California in USA which defies logic since I run a ...
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More than 5 custom variables across multiple websites using Google Analytics
We have multiple websites using the same Google Analytics account number so we can track visitors across multiple websites. One of these websites has set 5 custom variables. We want to introduce a new ...
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How to use Google Analytics to track a development and production versions of the same site on different servers?
I have a website with two versions, one for production and one for development (testing new features). All of the code is under version control and the websites are on separate servers.
Currently, I ...
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Google Analytics campaign advice
I am buying traffic from a broker not one source and sending to various landing pages.
I would like to know the best way to structure a campaign so I can find which referrering site/URL is performing ...
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Different filter settings in report tabs of Google Analytics Custom Reporting?
I'm wondering if it's possible to have different filter settings in different report tabs of custom report in Google Analytics?
It looks like the filter settings can only be set for all report tabs ...
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Display only visits referred from a Google Adwords campain
I want to only display visits to my site which were sent by my Google Adwords campain preferably in the Visitors overview page.
I've tried filtering with 'Advanced Segments' but when I select "Paid ...
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Custom Advanced Segment (based on URL) in Google Analytics not working properly?
Hoping someone can help,
I have what seems to be a very basic question regarding Google Analytics and Advanced Segments. I'm working on a University site, and attempting to add a custom segment only ...
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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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Find which Youtube video is a referral in Google Analytics
I have many new visitors today coming thanks to a Youtube video. When I choose Acquisition > All traffic > Referrals, I see Youtube, and when clicking on it, here is what I see:
Referral path ...
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Google Analytics subdomain filter is filtering out virtual page views
I have a reporting view setup with a filter to show only the traffic to the subdomain. I can see in realtime view that it is correctly showing only traffic to the subdomain. However, it seems that no ...
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Why do I get "irrelevant" URLs in the full referrer field in google analytics?
When looking in Google Analytics for referrers to a specific page, I use the following:
Navigate to Behaviour > Site Content > All Pages
Search and select the page that I need.
Secondary dimension > ...
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Google Analytics Goal funnel setup not reporting correct numbers
We have setup a completion goal in Google Analytics, that should match steps based on the beginning of the URL.
The setup screenshot:
But in the funnel visualization the "Car detail" page is not ...
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Google Analytics: How to track the amount of time a particular user has been on site in total and time per session?
I need to be able to break down how many users have viewed the site in total for different time ranges (to include recurring visits), same for per session.
In other words, I'm trying to provide a ...
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How to get rid of "Analytics Education" when logging into Google Analytics?
Each time I open Google Analytics reporting view, I am presented with their "Analytics Education" pop in:
How to have this pop in closed by default please?
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Tracking a single page on another domain in Google Analytics
I have access to edit a 'mini-site' hosted on our organisation's parent site. I'd like to track this page using Google Analytics, however I don't have access to the front page so I can't verify this ...
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How do I remove outlier data from a Google Analytics chart?
I want to display a pie chart of pageviews for my site, but there are a few outlier pages I do not want included.
Is there a way to exclude those sites from the pie chart?
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Add to vistor data in google analytics?
How can i add data to google analytics? i'd like to attach data to users such as if silverlight is installed, if i suspect the user of using an adblock etc (i would say if javascript is enabled but i ...
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Why don't my Google Analytics custom segmentation visit numbers match up?
I have three main areas of my site and want to track total usage as well as breakdowns of the three parts. I am trying to segment the "type" of use on each page using a custom variable as such:
['...
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Google Analytics and Web Optimizer Code creating double site visits
My website currently has a Google Asynchronous tracking code at the top of every page and the home page has an A/B test running on it. This is causing GA to add 2 visits for every 1 to the home page. ...
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Should I rely on Google Analytics or Alexa for stats about what countries visitors to my site come from?
I wanted to know some demographics about my website and I look at Alexa.com/siteinfo/koolbusiness.com which reports about 50% of the traffic is from India. But when I look with google analytics, 75% ...
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600 visitors per day, 20 backlinks but still not referenced by Google
i've launch a website on wednesday (9 August)
There's already in 4 days
12,000 viewed pages
1,400 visits
20 to 25 backlincks
a sitemap.xml (130 URL)
english language / french language - url like ...
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Infinite scrolling without losing "Page Views" in Google Analytics
Let's say "Page Views" is a very important metric on your website (KPI) but you want to introduce the nice looking infinity scrolling on certain heavily used pages.
What are the possibilities in ...
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Filtering your own IP's in Google Analytics, good or bad idea?
Is it a good idea to filter our own IP addresses from our own websites in Google Analytics?
On the one hand, the data is "real" but on the other are you losing browny points with Google as your ...
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Why does Google Analytics report 100% bounce rate when the page has lots of page views?
Google Analytics reports 100% bounce rate for a page which has lots of page views and an Avg Time on Page of 32 seconds. Shouldn't one of the following be true?
Either the bounce rate is less than ...
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How to tell Google Analytics to ignore case in Site Search Terms?
I currently have Google Analytics on my site, and one of it's useful functions is that it gives me a nice breakdown of all the search terms people are using to search my site (my site has it's own ...
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Is it ethical to use Google Analytics on a site crime victims use to make 'anonymous' reports?
Our local police force have a website for rape victims to use to report attacks anonymously. At the top of the page is a 'Report anonymously' link, which takes you to a page using Google Analytics as ...
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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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Problem to stop Google-Analytics from tracking my website
In June 2012 I added my website (a blog that I host on my own server) to Google-Analytics. In January 2013 I decided to use Piwik instead of Google-Analytics.
So I removed my website from the Google ...
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Using Google Analytics to establish busiest time of day
I am trying to find a way to establish my sites busiest hour, but when using the "hour of the day" metric, each seems to have a date specific code, rather than just a number from 0-23, as I would ...
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How do I view event label data in Google Analytics 4?
So, I successfully got my new GA4 tag hooked up and am reporting events with customized categories, labels, and values.
Yet in the new Google Analytics 4 reporting and data exploration views, I cannot ...
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Google Analytics - Viewing total traffic across all accounts
I have a client with 20+ GA accounts within their instance, and so far I have not been able to figure out an easy method of reporting the total, global raw number of sessions across all the accounts. ...
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Analytics for Single Page JavaScript Webapps (Google Analytics?)
Can Google Analytics be used for tracking user behavior in a single page web application? I have used Google Analytics for typical websites but haven't used it for these type of web apps.
If not ...
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What does "Other" mean for Traffic Source on Google Analytics?
I logged into Google Analytics today and under 'Traffic Sources' saw: "Referring sites", "Direct Traffic", "Search Engines" and "Other". I've never seen 'other' before, and it was small (only 0.5%), ...
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Prestashop: Number of transactions are not equals to products sold
I'm a newbie with Google Analytics and Google Data Studio and between two dates I've got a number X of transactions. Of course, in each transaction, you can buy one or more products, but we are going ...
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Why does Google Analytics end sessions at midnight?
I'm storing my own copy of Google Analytics session data and I'm trying to figure out their schema.
I'm trying to figure out why does Google Analytics end sessions at midnight?
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Suspicious Web Traffic from Amazon.com ISP
Just a few hours back I was checking my logs when I found a whole bunch of traffic from IP address 54.174.xx.xx and ISP Amazon.com (validated from Google analytics). It lasted for an hour and then ...
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How to exclude traffic based on geographical location in Google Analytics
I see a lot of traffic coming from 1 city in a country on which my site is not even focused.
I also know it's not a real user, so I want to exclude all traffic coming from that city in my reports, ...
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Frequency & Recency in Google Analytics. How to read the histogram?
I'm looking in Google Analytics at Audience > Behavior > Frequency & Recency for a property I manage. My histogram looks like this:
Something's fishy. The official docs say I should read this ...
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How to separate data from subdomains in Google Analytics?
I want to split my data from different subdomains in Google Analytics. I know it's possible to do it using different profiles + filters, but when you have a ton of subdomains, it's almost impossible ...
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Where's the Google Analytics 4.0 website traffic reports like Universal Analytics had?
I upgraded a website to the new Google Analytics 4, and it really is lacking the great reporting that the old Google Analytics (aka Universal Analytics) had. The old version had great reports for ...
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50% traffic coming from a single IP on website
We have an Indian ecommerce website, where around 85% traffic comes from India only. I was observing access logs of last 2 months and found out that nearly 50% traffic is coming from a single IP (162....
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Show events AND pageviews in Google Analytics
Each page on my site contains a file, and I have Google Analytics set up to track file download events. I would like to see what fraction of users who visit Page X download Page X's file.
I can view ...