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What is the difference between average daily sessions vs average daily hits for website traffic?
I am referring a link
https://www.eurovps.com/blog/how-much-ram-cpu-storage-iops-vps-needs/
to come up with a rough estimate on sizing.
For bandwidth consumption, the example used there is
Page Size ± ...
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How is it possible that Google Analytics is showing a high bounce rate (50%) on a cart and checkout page?
The cart and checkout pages are not landing pages so it isn't possible for that to be the first page in their session. The exit rate is way too low (approximately 15%) which signals to me that the ...
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Can Google Analytics be configured to merge keywords that differ only in capitalization / case sensitivity?
I'm looking at my company's paid keywords under Acquisition > Google Ads > Keywords in Analytics, and I notice that I have two separate results for my brand keyword, e.g.
example ... (not the real ...
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Is it ok to filter sensitive user information from GA hits in GTM (rather than in app)?
I'm using GTM to filter out PII in the data sent to Google Analytics. I do this by only letting GTM send non-PII values to GA.
So the data flow is the following :
app ->(sends full payload)-> GTM ->...
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Is it possible to trigger a virtual pageview on a site tracking stats with awstats?
What I'm Doing
I have a multi-step form (7 steps) where users make a choice on each form part and submit them on the 7th part of the form. It's a contest entry form.
The problem
There is only one ...
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Are website analytics available from Bing?
Google provided a script for its analytics, using http://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js and a bunch of code they provided.
I can't seem to find something similar for Bing. I found Google ...
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Google Analytics payment gateways are tracking referrals
Google Analytics is tracking my payment gateway conversion as a referral.
This is because we take the user to the payment gateway, eg PayPal, but bring them back to the site for the order ...
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How to redirect keeping the referral without server-side redirects?
I have an HTML page hosted in Dropbox that some external websites link to. I want to redirect to a different page using only HTML or Javascript, since I can't use any server-side redirects.
My goal ...
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Slot matrix - Google Analytics _setCustomVar
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingCustomVariables
"...Use a slot matrix to track large numbers of custom variables..."
How to implement it?
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Get aggregated view of data for entire website with Google Analytics
I have a website (www.ayrshireminis.com), which has three main sections under different directories, these are:
/forum
/galleries
/contact
I would like to have an aggregated view of the data for the ...
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clicktale.com alternative that works with https and ajax
I need to record user's actions on site for analytics purposes. The way clicktale.com doing it is just fine. But unfortunately it have problems with working over https and recording ajax events.
Is ...
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How do I track a goal path over multiple visits?
My sales cycle is measured in weeks. A typical user behavior pattern looks like this:
Finds the site via organic, cpc, or referral
Browses the content for awhile.
Returns a few days later, browses ...
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Is there a blogging platform that allows me to give traffic related bonuses to writers?
I would like to be able to reward writers with bonuses based upon the amount of traffic their individual posts receive, to encourage them to promote their posts on the internet. Is there a platform ...
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desktop software for web analytics
I am not a webmaster nor a programmer. I am asking this in order to aid in my research for my Master's dissertation where I have to analyze a website's traffic from a file containing activity on the ...
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Best in-depth analytics or stats tools? (preferrably server-side)
I know there's been questions about this before, but mine is a little more specific. I work for a high traffic website and we want to start tracking our visitors better. Unfortunately, Google ...
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Ignore "HTTP 1.0 OPTIONS" request in GoAccess?
We are analyzing website access with GoAccess web log analyzer. Here's what we see under Requested Files (URLs):
> 2 - Requested Files (URLs) Total: 366/66721
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Why would a redirected site accrue sessions in Google Analytics?
A site I have is set up to redirect (301) to another site. But strangely the redirected site is accruing sessions in Google Analytics. The session numbers for each site (the redirected one and the one ...
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Google Analytics view with no filters shows fewer real-time visitors than a view with filters
I just finished the Google Analytics courses, and the company I work for wants me to be in charge of supervising our clients' reports, since no one's doing it at the time.
We have had the accounts ...
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Can mouse location be used to know if the user is going to leave a web page?
I was checkout out an ecommerce site. I scrolled down on a product page then moved my mouse towards the top of the screen as if I am leaving the web site then suddenly I got a popup promotion "Wait ...
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In Google analytics, how do I see the paths through my site that users took to get to a page?
On my site I'm currently trying to work out the typical paths that users follow within my site in order to get to an end result of a certain page.
I have discovered how to use landing page- to see ...
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How to track conversion funnels across multiple domains with Google Analytics, getClicky, and CloudFlare
What we need: We need to implement funnel and conversion tracking across multiple domains. Currently, we have funnels that start in one domain but end in another domain. We have full control and ...
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How do you track display impressions in Google Analytics on non Google networks?
Google Analytics has a Multi-Channel funnel analysis feature that we’d like to use to understand assisted conversions and how each channel has impacted on conversion beyond just last interaction ...
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URLs appended with a fullstop (period)
When I log into to my hosting provider to view my website stats I have noticed that there are a few repeated page URLs with a full stop on the end. I have hunted for this additional page on my FTP but ...
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Google non-SSL search not passing the "q" parameter with keyword
I am building a web analytics application for search engine traffic only and right now I am looking into providing some information about keywords that Google does not show. Like not provided keyword.
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Analytics - Total events divided by number of unique pages?
I am using Google Analytics events to track keywords on my articles - not necessarily the best system I know but there are too many for variables I can't easily change it right now - and I would like ...
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Analytics reports multiple different screen resolutions for (apparently) a single visitor
I have a site with only a small number of visitors. Using the "days since last visit" dimension in Google Analytics I thought I could work out a flow of individual visitors from day to day:
Date ...
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How do clicks from Google Places show up in Analytics?
We've just implemented Google Places for our business and are getting a few hits through the mini-analytics that places have. But those are just a hybrid impressions, CTR chart.
Is there a way to ...
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Google Analytics - how to track multiple sections of a site at once?
I need to track the pageviews and goal completions for the Blogs section of my website, and I used to do this simply by searching the word "/blog/" under Content, which would pull all of our Blog ...
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Using RegEx's in Multi-Channel Funnels in Google Analytics
For some reason, I can't get my multichannel funnel which utilizes RegEx's in the path steps to function -- it keeps coming back with no data. There are a few variables which may be holding things up, ...
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How to track conversion from “new visitor” to “returning visitor” in Google Analytics?
I own a site, and I want to know how many of my "new visitors" are being converted into "returning visitors" after visiting my site.
Not how often users visit my site, recency or anything like that, ...
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How can I make Google Analytics understand URL encoding?
I have a page on my site that has the following URL:
solr?filters=type%3Aphoto (let's call this URL A)
Any link to this page on my site reads:
solr?filters=type%3Aphoto
The "%3A" is a URL encoded ...
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Will adding "www." to my domain setting in Google Analytics impact already collected data?
I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is "http://example.com". The site, however, will redirect any non-www request, to www....
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Do multiple Google Analytics profiles share the same raw data?
I have two profiles under one web site in Google Analytics. The two profiles are essentially the same except one has defined parameters to exclude (e.g. id, page... etc) so that I could aggregate the ...
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Track a Adobe Flash app hosted on multiple domains with Google Analytics
I'm working on a flash app that's gonna be distributed to more and more partners (and obviously domains). It needs to be tracked aggregated and also separately.
I implemented Google Analytics using ...
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How I quantify the success of a folksonomy?
CONCEPTS: completeness, accuracy, consistency, stability, relevancy
SEMI-RELATE-SUBJECTS: taxonomy, data quality, indexes, keywords, SEO, SEM
FORMULAS: ? ? ?
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Why transaction revenue from google search result go to Direct not Organic Search?
I'm little confused in google analytics channel.
I'm trying to check out a product on my website but why is the revenue going to Direct instead of Organic Search?
The way I check out the product is as ...
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How to export full list of outbound clicks in GA4?
I have Google Analytics 4 with "Outbound click" enhanced measurement enabled.
In my Events tab, I can see that clicks are being tracked and it has a counter for each unique outbound link.
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Google Analytics: How to get WeChat traffic to show as a social network
One of our clients is doing a lot of advertising on WeChat, the leading social network in China (800M+ active users). As it's an international client, we're using Google Analytics as main platform for ...
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How to link a signup with a utm source across multiple steps with google analytics and mixpanel?
Currently I am running an ad champaign to get users to click on a link to my wordpress site. The link uses utm_source code google-ads.
Once the user is on the wordpress landing pages, they can click ...
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After changing Google Analytics Custom Dimensions from user id to user name, some ids are still showing up in reports
I have a WordPress website and I setup a custom dimension in Google Analytics to log, as a custom dimension, the blog post authors user ID. This worked fine.
I have since changed this to now log the ...
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Connecting different goal types to see correlations in Google Analytics
I am looking for a way to connect asset download goals early in the buying cycle with signups at the end of the cycle.
My website has complex buying cycle that happens over the course of months, for ...
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Users who receive email/bot notifications considered "active"?
I consider a user to be "active" whenever they sign into my web app. I recently introduced daily emails & bot notifications that include summarized user data.
In theory, I think the notifications ...
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Changes made in Google Analytics Dashboard Not Reflected in Weekly Scheduled Dashboard Reports
I have more than 20 websites for which I have setup Google Analytics and for all those I have created a Dashboard Report, lets say Report A. I have also setup weekly scheduled emails for that ...
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How to apply filters for more than one domain (Google Analytics)
I have about 20 filters for my website to avoid referal spam such as site8.free-floating-buttons.com.
I have more than one website though.
Do I really have to create all these filters for every ...
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What is the correlation between Drop Off, Exits, and Bounces?
I am running through my analytics and noticed that my drop off in the behavior chart is always 100%. Which does not necessarily surprise me except neither bounce rate, or % Exits are 100%.
I ...
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Is it a good idea to register multiple domains pointing to a single website
We have a main domain or primary domain (say xyz.com) on which we have our website hosted. For the sake of business/trademark we would like to book other domain with the same name but different tlds (...
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What are some advantages of using Analytics like Urchin?
I'm interested in utilizing urchin.
What are some advantages of self hosted analytics software like urchin over Google analytics?
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Change to www from naked domain impact on seo
I have set up my website from the beginning to be used without the www, ie 'naked', with the following command at .htaccess and everything is working fine.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.soeezauto\....
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How do I unblock Google Analytics from adblockers and ublock?
I want an accurate picture of all the visitors landing on the website and converting. Unfortunately, the adblocker tools also block Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, I am using the newer script
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Avg. Visit Duration 00:00:00 conclusion
What can I predict when I see in Google Analytics that total visits by search for some day are 93 visits while 70 visits of them have the value 00:00:00 for Avg. Visit Duration?
Did those visits made ...
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