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Domain name appended to the end of every URL as tracked in Google Analytics
I've encountered the same situation.
It appears that this behaviour is affected by settings in:
Admin -> View Settings -> Default site (optional)
You've probably placed there your site name, and now ...
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Tradeoffs of including alt attribute in tracking pixel
The answer from the HTML perspective
Almost every img element must have an alt attribute.
Almost, because there are two exceptions: under certain conditions, if figure is involved, and if a markup ...
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What is _ga in url path?
This is needed for cross-domain-tracking, and yes, it stands for google analytics.
You can't stop Google from adding the tag, but you can tell Analytics to ignore it in your reports.
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Is it possible to track google analytics conversions on a shopify buy button?
As you noted, the Shopify -> Settings -> Checkout field called 'additional scripts' will only load on the actual status page after checkout is complete.
In order to add your Buy Button event ...
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Google Analytics Content Group, do I use gtag set or gtag config?
Content group passed with set command will be added to the next hit, like:
gtag('set', {'content_group1': 'My Group Name'}); \\ No data sent
gtag('event', <action>, { \\ Now ...
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unexpected url parameters added by 3rd party browsers
I know this is old, but after going through some server logs, I came across the same parameters and I was curious where they were from.
I have found
from=groupmessage,
from=timeline,
from=...
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Google Analytics - exclude from stats if user clicks on a particular link when visiting home page
You could create a custom dimension at session level scope, set its value to Logged In (or something similar). Then create an onclick event for the link https://app.example.com/login.php and send the ...
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What is the `#` symbol in a link with Google Analytics campaign tracking parameters?
If you have checked the option Set the campaign parameters in the fragment portion of the URL (not recommended) immediately under the field that gives you the completed URL, then the URL builder will ...
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Could these URL tracking parameters be causing data discrepency between Facebook Ads and Google Analytics?
To answer your question: no, looks like that's not the cause.
It wouldn't be the tracking parameters because you mentioned that some conversions are being picked up, and others not. If it was the ...
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Duplicate Google Analytics tracking happening with iFrame
There are ways around this. You can use JavaScript to tell if a site is being loaded in an iframe. There is a good thread on this here. You can use that to determine if your subdomain is loaded in an ...
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Reliably track a visitor's time spent playing music
I know this question is really old ... but for anyone stumbling across this:
Google has a limit as to how many hits per session they allow. As of today (march 2021) the limit is still 500 hits per ...
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Is tracking pageviews on a PDF possible with UTM tags?
I wouldn't use campaign tracking for this (campaign tracking is for use on external links for attribution, not internal links).
What you want is Event Tracking.
It's pretty straight-forward, ...
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Histogram view of event value distribution
I know this is an old question but I was looking for something similar and my solution was to use a hit-level custom dimension to collect the numeric value. This allows you to assign a value to each ...
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Domain name appended to the end of every URL as tracked in Google Analytics
It looks like misconfigured custom filter for the profile. In standard setup, the home page is normally just /. It is a common practice to create a filter that adds the domain to the beginning to ...
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What is adding p, subid, and uid variables to the query string of a site url?
These are all used in tracking URLs.
A SubID is a string of alphanumeric characters generated at the end of a redirect URL, which records a user-defined variable. uid is Unique Identifier. Check if ...
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Tracking users between sites using contact forms
You can use Google Analytics to do cross-domain tracking:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034342?hl=en
The problem with using cookies is they are assigned to a particular domain and
a ...
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Do URL Tracking parameters used on internal links override the inital Google Analytics traffic sources?
Using GA Campaign tagging on internal links is not recommended as they will override the original source/medium of the visitor.
There are so many ways this can be done.
The quickest/easiest to get up ...
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Google Analytics - exclude from stats if user clicks on a particular link when visiting home page
Yes you can. Create a Event Category for External Links, Event Action : Href URL, Event Label : Label of link
Then create a Custom Report with Page Dimension with User Metrics (or what ever Metrics ...
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Google Analytics: Internal tracking
You need to do both.
Via GTM -
Create a -
Event Category : Click Links (whatever name you want)
Event Action : href url of that link
Event label : Label of the Link
Under Behavior in GA > Events ...
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Google Analytics to only track specific events
Yes, you can track only events and not pageviews. The easiest way to add any tracking is to have the clients use Google Tag Manager and give you access there. You can then track just events to your ...
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Measure and Track Value of Website(s) Improvements
You can and should set goals for each website. These vary widely - for an ecommerce site, obviously a purchase is one goal; for a content site, perhaps time on page is a better indicator of whether ...
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Do I have to add Google Analytics events if I have Javacsript buttons on a page or can Analytics track time on page without them by itself?
Google Analytics by default only measures time on page between page views. All in-page interactions such as button presses, mouse movement, and scrolling do not cause any data to be sent to Google ...
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Track user from adwords in my own community
Google Analytics can identify traffic source by UTM parameters, referrals, and by GCLID. This latter is related to Google Ads, and if set up correctly, you'll automatically see the campaign data in ...
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Does the position of Google Analytics snippet within the document head (before or after scripts and css) affect tracking data?
Probably not.
Providing you don't have anything that is causing long page load times loading before the Google tracking code is fired, then there shouldn't be a problem. If you do have something that ...
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How is it possible that Google Analytics is showing a high bounce rate (50%) on a cart and checkout page?
[Edited a few times per comments]
Bounce rate and exit rate aren't comparable values. For Page A, the bounce rate is
(sessions where the only hit was a Page A PV) / (sessions that landed on Page A)
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What is "fourth-party" in advertisement?
Fourth party refers to any number of script/pixel chains beyond your 3rd party pixel/scripts. In practice, anytime you add a third party script, that script can then load a another party's script or ...
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How to track from which area of the website does the users enter a specific page?
You may try Google Analytics, link here
Under Behaviour → Behaviour Flow
You may try Mouseflow, try this
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Do websites have the choice to block 3rd party trackers?
I am not sure that this question belongs here, as it would not seem related to being a webmaster. For future reference, maybe Superuser.com would be more appropriate.
In answer to your question - ...
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Google Analytics reporting all traffic as organic
You didn't do enough debugging. A switch in attribution like that is only possible with complete session breakage. It's common when you either have checkout on a different TLD (top-level-domain) so ...
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Should I avoid tracking parameters completely for optimal SEO?
Query params of the backlinks aren't harming anything SEO-wise as long as they're not edge cases, so like not too many parameters or banned keywords in them.
Query parameters inside a site aren't ...
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