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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do we really need Google Analytics for better SERP positions?
We have been using Google Analytics on our main website for years, but recently we have tried another local stats system (Yandex.Metrica) and we are very happy with it - more than with the Google one. ...
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Does Google Analytic count mismatching/unconfigured URLs?
Say url www.mysite.com is registered in Google Analytics and the tracking ID is UA-12345678-90.
What happens if another site with URL www.anothersite.com uses this ID too? Does analytic count visits ...
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Difference between Alexa, Google Analytics, Quantcast and Compete website statistics
I am getting confused by the following traffic metric systems: Google Analytics, Alexa, Quantcast and Compete metrics because they each show different values. ie. unique traffic, visits, pageviews, ...
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How much traffic isn't reported by Google Analytics?
We keep finding inconsistencies between data in Analytics and the reports we get from other sources. In general, we notice about 40% less pageviews in Analytics than elsewhere:
Correlating number of ...
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Merge database statistics into google analytics
A couple of sites I administer have this situation:
Google Analytics is set up for regular traffic reporting
I have some sort of cron tab emailing/logging weekly/monthly statistics like number of new ...
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Simple count visitors for front page for Joomla
We have a website with Joomla and we want to put a simple counter for visitors in front page of website, just the number of visitors. I use stat counter but the problem is that I can’t see all the ...
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Alternative to Google Analytics with A/B testing and PDF scheduling
Is there a hosted solution that competes with Google Analytics and has some of the heavy hitting features:
A/B testing with regression analysis
Conversion tracking
Funnels
Schedulable reports that ...
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Google Analytics + External Site Statistics Tracking in one application?
My company is a broker in the real estate industry. As such, we send a lot of our listings to sites like Trulia.com and Zillow.com, among others. These sites direct leads to our realtors, and provide ...
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How to track a site-search with lots of options?
Our website has two search forms. One of them includes no text input, but a lot of checkboxes, dropdown boxes and radio buttons for narrowing down our product catalogue.
Is there a good way to track ...
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I have a video streaming site with a paywall. How do I track users that have been referred by an affiliate?
What I would like to do is track if a user has been referred to my website. If the incoming user purchases something I would like to share revenue with the affiliate. I'm not sure what the common ways ...
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Sample size and statistical significance in Google Analytics
I have been asked to compile a report into dropout rates during checkout for a global webstore
I have used a sample size over one month as my sample because:
google analytics slows to a crawl over ...
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Why are Awstats, Webalizer, and Google Analytics results so different?
I realize that comparing Awstats and Webalizer to Google Analytics is like comparing apples to oranges, but each of them track at least basic statistics about visitors and pages.
So why are there ...
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Sudden drop of pageviews/visit and increase of bounce rate in Analytics
Google analytics stats:
04 june 2012
Visits: 4.423
Unique visitors: 3.558
Pageviews: 77.352
Pageviews / visit: 17,49
Visit length: 00:06:26
Bounce rate: 1,09%
05 june 2012
Visits: 4.652
Unique ...
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Why does StatCounter show less unique visitors than my Apache access log?
StatCounter shows yesterday as seeing 10,611 unique visitors to my site.
I wrote a script that counted the number of unique IP addresses in yesterday's Apache access log. It counted 14,190 unique IP ...
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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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How can I track the "Traffic Sources" of "Unique Visitors" by Google Analytics?
Now I can only see the "Traffic Sources" of "Visits". But what I would like to know is the number of "Unique Visitors" from each referrals. But when I go to "Traffic Sources" -"Referrals" from the ...
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Is Google Analytics safe for websites that deal with sensitive information?
I work for a company that writes several webapps that deal with a lot of sensitive information, such as full name, date of birth, address, and SSNs. Currently we don't have anything to measure site ...
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How can I get stats for what 3rd-party sites have embedded our iframe widget?
Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so:
<iframe src="http://example.com/whatever.php" frameBorder="0" width="200px" height="300px" scrolling="no"></iframe>
The ...
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Why don't my Google Analytics traffic statistics match my webserver logs?
For a couple of months I've got a Wordpress website (http://www.tricky-design.com) online. I was curious how many visitor do visit my website therefore I'd setup a statistics counter Statpress (plugin ...
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Google Analytics: What to feed back to clients?
We have several successful websites all of which have Google Analytics. A few clients like to see some of the stats on the website and kind of like to have a "feedback" session.
I usually go through ...
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How to correctly count pageviews?
I've been using a free 3rd party sitestats counter for years, and I would like to get rid of the external party.
For this simple thing I'm only interested in pageviews (other stats I use google ...
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What are you using for getting stats about your web app? G. Analytics or other solution? [closed]
if you are building your own web application, what are you using for monitoring of visitors. Are you getting this information from Google Analytics? Or do you prefer your own solution?
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Find out where the user has come from -- previous page URL within the same site
Is it possible to use Google Analytics or a similar tool to track the users' inter-site click behaviour?
I'd like to know how many users clicked on certain links on a particular page which lead them ...
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What is the best browser usage statistics source?
I wonder about what source of browser usage statistics is most reliable and updated.
I've been using
Google Analytics (with use of my analytics enabled pages)
W3 Counter
Stat Counter
but they are ...
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Google Analytics: Find external sites which referred most visitors to a Goal
I have a goal setup in Google Analytics, I would like to track the number of visits that come from external sources.
e.g. I would like to see how many visits come from google.co.uk vs google.ie
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How do I show visitor count in my page?
I am using Google Analytics for tracking the visitors on my website. I can view all the stat reports from my Google login.
I am wondering if I could place the visitor summary stat in my home page of ...
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Does placing Google Analytics code in an external file affect statistics?
I'm working with an outside software vendor to add Google Analytics code to their web app, so that we can track its usage. Their developer suggested that we place the code in an external ".js" file, ...
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Can I use Google Analytics with commercials from other networks?
Does Google Analytics allow me to configure and evaluate statistics like CTR etc. for commercials from networks other than Google Adsense?
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