Questions tagged [statistics]
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Why are not relevant search queries in local search capitalized?
I found an interesting relationship between relevant and not relevant search queries and the way they are written.
Let's say I have a website about fruit and vegetables. When I look in my statistics, ...
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What would be the reasons for not using UTM parameters?
Note: by UTM parameters I mean any kind of parameters is used to track website traffic. One can have their own set of parameters and I still count them as using. Or they can use a link shortener to ...
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Is Google Analytics being too conservative?
I wrote my own statistics logging script. It excludes a lot of bots - ie any user-agent that contains any of the following is excluded:
bot
spider
crawl
saashub
owler
researchscan
go-http-client
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What happens if I install 2 plugins for the same Google Analytics tracking code? [duplicate]
If I install (on WordPress) 2 plugins for the same Google Analytics tracking code, is it possible that views, etc. are counted 2 times?
I am asking it because on the exact day where I have changed ...
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Ratio of real visitors to search engine views
I know it is highly website-dependent, but is there any statistics/study/report on the ratio of real visitors websites get and the visits made by the search engine crawler?
Services like Alexa reports ...
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Do "web" stats in Google Search Console include Google shopping queries?
Does search type 'Web' in Google Search Console (screenshot 1) include free traffic from Shopping tab (screenshot 2)?
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Huge number of requests for recently online website
I recently put a new website online on a .com domain. It is not advertised, and the number of "real" users is basically zero. It is secured via cloudflare. Since linked with the .com domain, ...
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Why does CPanel show I/O faults when the site has low utilization?
I'm on a shared host and according to stats I'm not close to the limits, yet the resource usage stats show I/O faults:
Why are those fault lines there when the usage is well below the red limit?
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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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Can I access the old version of Google Search Console to see crawling and indexing?
I remember google webmaster console had a crawl and indexing, But in new version, I couldn't find crawling or indexing. Everything is different.
Can I access to old style of google console?
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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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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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For Google Search Console, Will data still be intact when using a different domain verification?
Per what's discussed in this article:
https://saradoesseo.com/seo-basics/set-up-google-search-console/
I'd like to switch the sites we set up with the URL prefix verifcation over to the Domain ...
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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 can I calculate max and min monthly budget on AdWords?
Lets say that I have the average monthly searches, competition, top of page bid (low range) and top of page bid (high range) and also 10% CTR for a keyword.
How can I calculate the maximum and the ...
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Number of unique visitors staying 30 seconds or more + visiting 2 or more pages
I've been asked to report a number based on the number of unique visitors that stay more than 30 seconds AND visit two or more pages.
My plan was to create a custom report or a segment based on these ...
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How to label and track 2 different page types (with vs without ads) in analytics?
Using Google Analytics, how could I label pages in my site so I can then see individual stats in Google Analytics.
For example, I have over 500 000 pages in the site, and I want to compare the site ...
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Get a pie chart of latest custom variable (software version) from each user using Google Analytics
I'm trying to use custom variables to track client side software version number. It working great so far: the value of the user scoped custom variable is being sent to GA and I'm able to see the ...
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Google Search Console reports almost no impressions or clicks after migrating to HTTPS
One of our website has ranked well on Google and showed good Google Impression & Clicks etc.. Around July we implemented SSL for our website and website was now only available over https://www....
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Google Analytics reports more new users than new visitor sessions
Look at the screenshot:
Do you see, that the amount of sessions, generated by new users, is lesser then the amount of new users?
How can it be? Are there new users, who don't created sessions? If ...
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Google Analytics is showing no visitors to website after website has been redesigned
We have recently had a website redesign, still with the same web address and host. Since launching the redesign Google Analytics has shown a huge drop in visitors, first to half and in the last three ...
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Are my website statistics more indicative than Google Trends?
I run a medium pop culture website (ranked 52 thousand and something), and have noticed in the last few years that certain keywords generate a lot of traffic for me.
The keywords I use were very ...
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How can there be fewer sessions than visitors in Google Analytics? [duplicate]
I found here a great explanation regarding the difference between users and visitors in GA, but somehow my stats (image attached) show 7330 New Visitors had 7312 Sessions (visits). How can there be ...
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Free domain redirect with simple statistics? [closed]
I wish to redirect my domain to a social media site.
Until now it's been a 301 redirect provided by the domain registrar.
Domain -> Social media site
But what if I want to collect some simple ...
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Are resized browser windows a real-world use case?
I'm working on the styling of a site that uses bootstrap 3. The front-end is not my strong suit, and my role is cleaning up small issues.
I develop my work on a desktop at full-width. We're using the ...
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Understanding of reCaptcha statistics
I am using "Invisible Recaptcha" and in recaptcha Admin console, I can download a CSV file with stats on recaptcha usage. I have difficulties understanding what each column means:
This is my ...
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Google Analytics: what does XX.XX% of total sessions means?
I opened Google Analytics website->Demographics->Overview and got following data of my android app:
There is a line at top right corner
71.12% of Total sessions
What does above line means to the ...
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Google Analytics combine statistics from different URLs
I am working as a student assistent for a University on a Wordpress website that contains courses.
They want for each course a overview of pageviews. The problem I am facing is that the course ...
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Google Analytics vs. Wordpress Statistics
I am currently working on a WordPress website, having installed Google Analytics. GA is running well, but especially with regard Facebook traffic, it shows completely other figures. After publishing a ...
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Conversion Rate Calculation - Industry Standard
This may come as an overly simplistic question.
We are trying to calculate the total conversion rate for all of our forms. We have setup event tracking in GA and we are pretty confident in the counts ...
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Structured data disappeared from google console
I have two websites which are twin, both using schema.org microdata format to construct structured data.
Both websites had their data visible in google webmaster console. But i noticed a sudden drop ...
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Does Google offer any data about search queries languages per country?
For example I need to see what percent of searches originated from Iraq is in English vs Arabic vs Kurdish.
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Why is session count shown rather than using count when requesting ga:users through the Google Analytics API?
I requested data thru the Google Analytics API with the following parameters:
start date: 2016-06-14
end date: 2016-06-14
metrics: ga:users
dimensions: ga:dateHour
But looks like the result I get ...
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How to prevent page counts by search indexers
On a page I manage I store information about the most read pages and last read pages in the database.
How can I manage to prevent taking into account accesses from search indexers?
Note that I still ...
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In Google Analytics how do I determine which pages are losing page views month over month?
How do I show and order the pages which lost views (popularity) in Google Analytics?
e.g. page A lost 350 unique visitors this month and page B lost 300, etc.
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automatically detect browser specific issues from usage statistics
Suppose you have a website that sells dog food (why not?) to people using a variety of browsers.
Is there some way to automatically be notified if sales (or some other activity) suddenly stops for a ...
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How to store daily snapshot of site statistics in MediaWiki?
I'd like to chart daily page views/edits/numbers of pages in existence on a site with MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki installed. I have shell access to the site.
How can you automate the storage of ...
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Announcing new website with a countdown: What load peak I have to deal with?
My corporate website is going to change: the new one is ready on a different server. I have to put a countdown of 24 hours on the current site home page, at "hour 0" I will switch to the new website (...
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A large percentage of my traffic originates from my own website's IP address [closed]
I've been going through my webalizer stats for the past few months, and on a month to month basis I have noticed this trend.
A very high percentage (usually around 20% of traffic by KBytes) belongs ...
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Browser Language Preference Statistics by Country
I'm wondering which languages are most popular with internet users in countries around the world.
My initial research found browser usage statistics by country, but nothing about proportional ...
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Does "unique visitors" in Google Analytics mean "number of different people"?
My website's Google Analytics shows me 100,000 unique visitors for a time period of 12 full months. Does that means that these are actually 100,000 different people that visited my website in a year?
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Best way to find out how many hits a site gets, without slow load times
I am building a translation website. One of my priorites is load times.
Recently I added a Google Analytics tracking script, which provides exceptionally complex information about the site, but also ...
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Values for saved data and saved requests much lower in CloudFlare analytics for several months
For several months now the pie charts in my CloudFlare analytics show a much smaller value for the saved data and saved requests (around 5%).
Before this the pie charts showed a saving of around 50% ...
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Do server stat tools work with CDNs?
If I pick a hosting package that offers CDN support, then how do server stat tools work, since web pages are served by different servers from all over the world?
Can I rely on them in that case?
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How to track Google Analytics from a specific page on my website
I have a website that has a sign up form and login form (besides other pages, obviously).
The sign up flow for goes as this:
Landing page > SignUp Form > Thank you Page (Button click) > Login Page
I ...
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Does Google Analytics not track data accurately when reporting the same pages to multiple accounts?
I am reporting my traffic to 2 different Google Analytics accounts.
Using Universal Analytics, I am doing something like:
ga('create', 'UA-XXXX', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
ga('create', 'UA-...
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Does Google Analytics influence Alexa rank?
Do the statistics seen in Google Analytics influence how Alexa ranks a site? Or does each service have its own rankings?
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Find 4chan post linking to your website?
I looked in my visitor statistics and saw that some people were coming from boards.4chan.org. Hmm, interesting. I'd like to see that post... Is there any way to find it?
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Google Webmaster Crawl Stats Missing
I added my website in Google Webmaster Tools two months ago and in "Crawl Stats" section I am seeing the following data.
Pages crawled per day - Missing graph data for some specific date
And the same ...
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How to view Web Server Activity via a command line or terminal
Is there a way to monitor the activity of a web server via the command line.
I have seen in many movies webmasters watching a command line screen in which data is continuously moving up, seems to me ...
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