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Tagged with website-analytics-tools or analytics
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Download tracking by IP
Is it possible to track downloads from a website by IP address?
Ideally, I would like to see a log file with possibly time stamps, occurrences, and who (IP address, and/or country of origin).
If ...
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Best way to track multiple sites with Google Analytics
I currently have 63 websites (and counting) that I'm tracking on one Google Analytics account, and I'm starting to realize... this is becoming a bit cumbersome.
What's the best way to collect traffic ...
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How to prevent stat sites from getting/publishing my traffic and hosting information?
When I recently googled my website, stat sites came up that had more info on my website than I even knew off the top of my head! Daily traffic, Nameservers, analytics id, etc.
I removed google ...
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How do you get new sites into your Quantcast network?
Over a month ago, we added some of the new Stack Exchange sites to the "Stack Overflow Network" on Quantcast, but to date, they haven't showed up:
http://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc#subdomain
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Does CloudFlare's analytics support download statistics on individual files?
I'm planning on using CloudFlare with our website but I need to make sure that I can still provide download statistics for some of the files which will inevitably be cached.
I couldn't find anything ...
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Tracking a 301 redirect for a campaign onto a 3rd party server
So we are running a campaign with a qr code that has some google analytics query strings embedded. We've setup our IIS to do a 301 redirect on the folder that sends the user off to a 3rd party CRM.
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Run Google Analytics reports across multiple accounts / properties
So I have a single login for Google Analytics that tracks multiple accounts with multiple properties as so.
Account 1
Property A
Property B
Property C
Property D
Account 2
Property E
Property F
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WordPress multisite and Google Analytics in subfolders with mapped domains
I have a WordPress multisite with sub folders. The site's subfolders are mapped to domains, which are set to primary.
I'm using the Google Analytics Multisite Async' code to track things.
From ...
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Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup
I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I couldn'...
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Track actions of paying customers
I'm looking for software that can analyze my Apache log files (or some other source) and tell me, from the visitors that actually bought something from my site, some profiling information; like time ...
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Abandoment to blame for the last JavaScript file not always being loaded?
I have a code snippet for an app that users are loading as a 3rd party script on their site. The general sequence is as follows:
Site loads http://www.example.com/foo.js
foo.js does stuff
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Google Analytics: Tracking multiple domain names of one website
Suppose I have the website www.example.com and www.example2.com. I redirect all page requests from www.example2.com to their corresponding pages at www.example.com. Is there a way for Google Analytics ...
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Data sources for Alexa and Compete rankings
How do Alexa and Compete get their data? which one is better?
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100% bounce rate on page that doesn't bounce
I have a page /blah/ that has a very high bounce rate – often it's up to 100%.
Thing is, people are 100% without question clicking links on this page such as /blah/shirley.htm i.e users aren't ...
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Social media measurement with Google Analytics
I work for a non profit and we are currently trying to develop a system to measure and evaluate our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter).
We would like to track a variety of social metrics, ...
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Google Analytics - comparing metrics for different cities approach
I receive traffic from a number of different cities across the world, these being: Washington, Bratislava and Belfast.
In Google Analytics, I would like to be able to compare a variety of metrics (...
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Analyze Drupal and Wordpress sites CPU load in shared server
Our hosting company is complaining that both our Drupal and Wordpress websites running in a shared server are consuming too many CPU resources. The traffic for each site is not more than 100 users ...
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Self hosted Web Analytics like urchin
I would like some cheap/free web analytic software to be used on my windows server (Server 2008). urchin seems to be way expensive. please provide me some good recommendations.
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Setup Google Analytics 4 property from 2 different tags
To measure my top-level domain and my subdomain I have installed 2 different Google tags in each of them and use 2 Google Analytics properties (Say Site & App). I am looking to setup a 3rd Google ...
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Google AdWords "gclid" and Matomo [Offline Conversion Upload]
I recently set up a a Google AdWords campaign for a site. I've enable auto tagging so that Google could append it's "gclid" to the URL. All of the conversions happen offline, so I need the ...
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Do I need to add the Google Tag Manager if I already have Google Analytics?
I have google analytics in my website like this :
<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-xxxxxxxx-1"></...
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How can I safely analyze users' password quality?
Given a registration service website with rather lax password requirements for the users (6-12 characters with no special requirements), how can I safely analyze what quality of passwords users pick ...
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Does watching a long video affect bounce rate?
I'm assuming the following things are a "bounce":
Clicking on a link to a page on a different web site
Closing an open window or tab
Typing a new URL
Clicking the "Back" button to leave the site
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Can I use Google Analytics to count QuickTime installations?
By default, Google Analytics produces reports on which versions of Flash and Java my users have. Is it possible to set up a report on which versions of QuickTime (if any)
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What is the target time to have visitors spend per visit?
Looking at Google Analytics, It seems that people spend approximately 3.5 minutes per average on my web site, per visit. That's approximately enough time to read one article and perhaps leave a ...
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Why is the http version of my website still receiving the most search traffic?
I am trying to identify sources of unattributable, "direct" traffic to my website. One source is http links from https websites - e.g. Google search results - because the referrer is stripped when ...
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How to decide which browsers to support?
I have to make recommendations to a team of engineers about which (IE) browsers to support and which to drop.
Analytics shows that over one year, IE6 is used in 0.0004% of unique pageviews (2/247K) ...
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In Webtrends, what browser is "Mozilla <Version Unknown>"?
I am getting a ton of visits from a browser that is showing up in my Webtrends stats as "Mozilla" with version listed as "Version Unknown." It's almost 14% of my page views. This is separate from ...
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A lot of "(direct) / (none)" traffic in Google Analytics
my web site has a lot of "(direct) / (none)" traffic (over 50%) in Google Analytics, but under the "Audience", 100% are new visitors, why is that?
I am quite sure most of the Audience should be new ...
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How to reverse engineer the SEO on a website?
I have read this question. My question is a bit different from it. I want to know how can I reverse engineer another website that is ranking the best for some keywords. For example some website called ...
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Does using web analytics tools other than Google Analytics put my sites at a disadvantage in Google SEO?
I've been opting for an open source lightweight alternative to Google Analytics on my websites lately. Could this hurt my rankings or 'click-through-rate' on Google search results, even if I register ...
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Is bounce rate of a website a ranking factor? [duplicate]
I have heard this from many SEO experts that a website with less bounce rate will rank well on Google. But what if the website does not use any analytics tools to calculate bounce rate, how will then ...
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What is _ga in url path?
I just opened a link which leaded me to a root (main) page of www of some Organization (let's call it XXXXXXX). It was opened from 3rd party www, not from with XXXXXXX's www.
The url in web browser ...
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Does viewing PDF pages in a browser send multiple HTTP requests to the server?
The person in charge of the metrics analysis in our organization has told me she has to do some filtering on requests for PDFs to separate views of pages in the PDF (in the browser I assume) and the ...
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Is it possible to track redirects to external sites from our subdomains?
I have a handful of subdomains set up as redirects because we are using them for QR codes.
I want to be able to track the QR code redirects (which are already set up and printed so no changing them ...
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Google Analytics API: return data on HTTP status codes?
I'd like to get information out of the Google Analytics API about the HTTP status codes returned by my application.
For example:
For a given date range, I'd like to know how many 404 responses were ...
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Tracking visitors: is it possible to know what site you visited next?
Let's say you visit my website johndoe.com you read one or two articles and then you type directly in your browser's address bar "www.google.fr" thus exiting my website. Conversely you were on ...
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How to keep track of a unique and an existing visitor
I am creating an app that requires to know if the visitor visiting the app is a unique visitor or an already visited visitor. I know we could persist a cookie on the visitor's computer to know ...
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Setting up funnel URLs with regular expressions
I'm trying to set up Google Analytics to track my e-commerce checkout page. The URLs in the process are as follows:
/checkout/[order number]
/checkout/[order number]/your_details
/checkout/[order ...
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Google Analytics direct traffic dropped by 50% after switching to https
everyone, have a little dilemma and was hoping to get some advice here. I recently installed a new SSL (3 months ago) to force our URL to start with https://. The site was earlier accessible through ...
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Can Google track the referring URL from their Google Maps URL Scheme on Android and iOS devices?
If you click on a Google Maps URL link (comgooglemaps://) on a website in Safari or Chrome on an Android or iOS device that opens up the native Google Maps App, can/does Google track the referring ...
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Why is the bounce rate high and how do I improve it? [closed]
I recently launched a site for reviews on mobile application games and after a couple weeks of running it I have a really high bounce rate 92%. I was just wondering if anyone could have a look at my ...
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Clarity around Advanced Segment defintion
I am hoping to get some clarity around an advanced segment I created. For context, our website spans multiple domains.
For reasons I wont get into, I created an advanced segment that looks for ...
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How do I track multiple domain in Google Analytics?
I have 2 unrelated websites with different content.
mydomain1.com
mydomain2.com
I already have a Google Analytics account for http://mydomain1.com. Now I want to add my second domain http://...
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Google Analytics: Enabled 'Track site search results' , where do I see list with search queries
I enabled 'Track site search results' on Google Analytics and put also the queryparameter. Now my question is, where can I simply look at the list that is gathered with all the searches that are done ...
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Handling Page View for Images Site
I want to know how sites like stackoverflow.com or imgur.com manage the page views of their article.
i.e. once i view it and then no matter how many times i refresh it.. the page view count won't ...
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Implementing Google Analytics through GoDaddy/Website Tonight
Is there a way to implement Analytics with GoDaddy's "Website Tonight?" Obviously GoDaddy wants you to sell you their analytics package, but this is what the client wants. I don't see any way to ...
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How do I have a page depth > 1 on a single page website?
One of my sites is a single page that focuses on getting the user to call a phone number.
In GA, I've set up a Goal for when visitors spend more than 1 minute on the site. I realized much later that ...
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Track page size of web app for performance
I'm about to start trialling optimisations on my web application (apache & tomcat). My main interest right now is:
The total page size (including external js files such as jquery)
The number of ...
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Yahoo Site Explorer API replacement?
Since the Yahoo Site Explorer Web Services API is going away at the end of 2010, are there any other web search APIs that offer similar information?
In particular, I'm interested in services similar ...
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