Questions tagged [universal-analytics]
Universal Analytics was the default version of the Google Analytics code for properties created between 2012 and 2020.
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Google Analytics structure for 8 related websites
I'm a little confused about the structure that I need to use in google analytics.
I'm working for a group that has 8 websites (domains), that are all centralized.
Do I need to use 8 properties (...
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Is it OK to have two "_ga" cookies in universal analytics, one for domain and one for subdomain
Our website has a number of sub-domains and we are in the process of migrating from classical analytics to universal analytics. When we migrated one of our domain from classical to universal analytics,...
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How to correct false referral traffic from tpc.googlesyndication in Google Analytics?
In Google Analytics under Acquisition -> Channels -> Referrals I observe tpc.googlesyndication popping up as a referrer.
Googles documentation suggests that clicks on doubleclick ads cause this ...
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Consolidate URLs in Google Analytics
I have a website with the following URL structure:
/[country]/city/[cityname]/
/[country]/city/[cityname]/events/[eventname]/
/[country]/city/[cityname]/sights/[sightname]/
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Google Analytics events not registering
I am trying to track clicks on my site using the analytics.js script for tracking events. I implement the snippet and test using the "Real Time" view and nothing shows up. Here is the snippet I am ...
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Why does Google Universal Analytics show more sessions but less pageviews than Classic Analytics?
I'm migrating a high-traffic site from Classic Analytics (ga.js) to Universal Analytics (analytics.js). Both setups have been running in parallel for the past few days: ga.js is hard-coded on the ...
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What Are 20 Common Reasons for Incorrect Pageviews
Having gone through a large number of unanswered questions on here as well as going through some new questions asked I have come across the fact that there are a surprisingly large number of questions ...
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Missing Product Category data post migration to Universal Analytics
We recently upgraded a site from Google Analytics classic to Universal Analytics.
In classic the Product Performance report had a dimension for "Product Category" in Universal the Product ...
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Does changing campaign names in AdWords mess up "Clicks to Sessions - rate" in Google Analytics
Does Google Analytics import AdWords data from connected accounts for every querried report anew?
The reason I'm asking is, that I get a Clicks and Sessions Discrepancy warning in Google Analytics ...
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Where do I find missing query string paramters for Google Analytics in Chrome Dev Tools?
I can't find standard Google Analytics paramters in the query string of the collect image that sends the param-value-pairs to my Google Analytics account.
In the network tab of Chrome Dev Tools I ...
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Analytics Clicks and Sessions Discrepancy warning
I'm getting the "Clicks and Sessions Discrepancy" warning in Google analytics.
So I've read that this happens and GA only reports this if there's a significant discrepancy.
My warning says "accrued ...
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Universal Analytics: Traffic source from target A in target B reports
I have a few targets: registration, success payment, discard payment, etc. And I need to see traffic source, that was on registration target achieved on all other reports. Is there any way to make ...
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Can I track referral traffic in Google Analytics from a domain that is redirecting to my site?
We have two domains such that www.example.org is redirecting to www.example.com. We want to track how many times someone gets to example.com from the example.org redirect. How can do do this in ...
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What do you have to be careful about when migrating a UA account to the same URL but a new website?
Off the top of my head I can think of:
301 Redirects (some pages are the same pages, but they might have a different URL)
Should I use a new UA account and import the data into it, or use the same ...
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Get Google Analytics to report goal conversion by scroll depth
I've been using http://scrolldepth.parsnip.io/ to track scroll depth as an event in Google Analytics. I now want to compare that with a goal conversion to be able to track the conversion rate of users ...
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Single or multiprofile implementation of Google analytics for a webview app and website?
I have Googled around quite a bit, but didn't find any good resources to figure out the best way to implement Google analytics to track web application which has webview based mobile apps in addition ...
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Can I track form submissions through Google Tag Manager?
I want to track form submissions on the website in Google analytics.
I was considering to add the following code to the SUBMIT button,
<input id=”contact-submit” class=”button” type=”submit” value=...
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How to get a report that has all utm_campaign parameters in it?
When I go to create a segment in Google Analytics I do the following:
Click New Segment
Click Traffic Sources
Then in the Campaign box, I start typing a parameter name, and it starts displaying ...
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Implications of using same Google Analytics for desktop site, mobile site, and native apps
I'm running an e-commerce site, let's say in www.example.com. I'm planning to create a mobile optimized site m.example.com and both Android and iOS app.
I'm planning to track all of them using a ...
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Does the new Analytics.js have a queue for posting events?
ga.js has a queue for posting events asynchronously (see below).
Does the new analytics.js have something similar? It looks like there simply is no need for a queue (presumably the new analytics ...
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Exclude All International Traffic from Google Analytics [duplicate]
How do you exclude any & all traffic that isn't from USA & Canada in Google Analytics?
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Google Analytics Filters: Hide Multiple Subdomains
So I have several views for the subdomains I want to track and the site as a whole. What I would really like is to create a view where it excludes all subdomains - the problem being I don't have a ...
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Chinese site: Google Analytics "Tracking Not Installed" issue
We have Chinese site "site.cn" which is hosted in Hong Kong and have Chinese cCTLD domain .cn.
There is Universal Analytics tracking code installed. It is installed correctly, but there is the status ...
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How does Google Analytics define "new users"?
I've created custom report to track some params of new visitors from Google organic search. When I choose "landing page", the report returns pages like /orders/ or /order?id=xxxxx etc.
The reality is ...
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ROI Web Analytics from a paper ad?
We live in a not real tech-savy town here, people have cellphones but don't appear to use social media much. In order to advertise we decided to put up flyers with pull tabs containing contact ...
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Event Tracking in Universal Analytics
I'm using Universal Analytics tracking code and would like to start tracking click events for one of the buttons. I added the ga('send'...) on click event via jQuery. Do I need to make any changes to ...
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Google Analytics ecommerce tracking referral issue with paypal payment gateway
I having a problem on ecommerce tracking.
The current shopping flow:
User clicked the ads from social media -facebook and directed to our site.
User make order on our site.
User make payment:-
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WHY must Universal Analytics code go immediately before the closing head tag?
The official Google documentation says to:
Paste your snippet (unaltered, in its entirety) into every web page you want to track. Paste it immediately before the closing </head> tag.
Surely ...
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Google Analytics - Create custom report based on 2 events
I am trying to create a report based on 2 events in Google Analytics. Event A is triggered when a user views a contact form and Event B is triggered when the user submits the form.
What would be the ...
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How can i check the query string parameters for Internet Explorer in Google Analytics?
I am testing Google Analytics query string parameters in Internet Explorer 10.
I am unable to find the required attributes in Network Tab.
Any help?
Would any add-ons help me?
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Error Code: 50005- Google Analytics
There terribly slow performance of GA recently, this was the error returned after waiting for several minutes for a custom report to load.
Facing an error code: 50005
Checked in google for the ...
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How to test Google Analytics in firefox browser?
As a part of Google analytics testing i need to check the events triggered, hit types, conversions, custom dimensions etc..
So i need to check the above mentioned attributes in Firefox browser.
I ...
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Google Analytics tracking across multiple domains - not showing domain, not tracking
I have been trying to get Google Analytics (Universal) working across two related domains, say www.foo.com and app.foo.com.
According to the Google Docs, I should be able to use the Universal code ...
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Create Custom Report - for what these Site Search Goals appears in metrics?
What does it mean - Goal 10 (Site Search Goal 1...) - about 20 items, Goal 2... - about 20 items, etc.?
Ok, I understand what is Site Search mean.
I couldnt understand, for what these Goals are if I ...
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Self-referrals on cross-domain analytics
I have a hotel site which links out to Synxis for our booking engine and then once the booking is complete, passes the user back to our hotel domain to continue browsing. I have got ecommerce data ...
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How to use segments in google analytics API
In google analytics, We are able to create segments like below:
From the Google analytics API explorer, we can pull the segment information be it by segment id or by its code:
I would assume we can ...
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Analytics Reporting Using Custom Dimensions With Changing Values
I'm looking to segment users on my website by those who are logged in and those who are not, and I'm a bit confused as to how it will work out implementation-wise.
So my plan is:
Create a user-level ...
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How to modify the source/medium in google analytics?
I have a webpage, say xyz.com. and it has a product say cake and a dedicated page for that "xyz.com/cake.html". Whenever i navigate to the cake page from the homme page, it shows "direct" as source. ...
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How to exclude personal traffic without IP in Google Analytics?
How to exclude my personal traffic from Google Analytics without IP? I am working on site regularly from many browser's but on one computer and just from home.
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Will assigning a separate UA tracking ID make Google Analytics NOT exclude subdomain as referral source?
I (might) want to treat shop.example.com as a separate tracking entity from www.example.com with Universal Analytics. Here, Google says
Google Analytics automatically excludes the domain ...
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Switching to Universal Analytics in Tag Manager
My Google Analytics codes are implemented via Google Tag Manager. However, I'm trying to upgrade to Universal Analytics.
According to Google's guide on switching from Classic to Universal via Tag ...
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Google Universal Analytics - force new session count same goal multiple times
I believe I am not the only one having this issue and I was wondering if anyone has a way around it.
As Google states one goal can be only counted once per session.
Unfortunately this is not good ...
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How to understand the categorization of traffic from utm parameter values from externally clicked URLs in Google Universal Analytics?
This page features the six utm parameters you can send from an external link to a page via Google Universal Analytics.
And I'm still a little bit confused on the relations between these parameters ...
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How to test a campaign in universal analytics?
How does one test a campaign (rather than release it to production) in Google Universal Analytics?
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Can you use the same property with Google Classic Analytics (ga.js) and Universal Analytics (analytics.js)?
Is it possible to use both Google Classic Analytics (ga.js) and Universal Analytics (analytics.js) with a single Google Analytics property?
I have a few related sites that share a Google Analytics ...
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how to translate Google Analytics from marketing-speak to tech-speak? [closed]
Back in the dinosaur days, I was the sole Webmaster for my organization (dev, admin, templates, etc) and I monitored usage stats with Analog. As we grew larger I focused on more dev stuff, and handed ...
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Switching To Google Universal Analytics - Data Loss?
We currently have a marketing site that still has the old, classic version of Analytics installed on it.
We also have a subdomain of that main site that contains the new, universal analytics ...
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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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Track clicks on Flash button in Google Analytics
Client is having a GoogleVoice's "Call me" button on their website and I'm trying to figure out how to set up a tracking for clicks on it as it's not standard link but Flash.
Button (for those not ...
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Excluding events from Universal Analytics (opt_noninteraction)
Our website tracks clicks out to App Stores as custom events as a means of tracking conversions. However these external clicks are counted as bounces in GA, which we don't want as these are acceptable ...
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