google-analytics

Custom Tracking with Google Analytics

I am trying to figure out how to use my google analytics account, and do custom tracking on certain links and such, but following the technical information on the help site on google isn't getting me anywhere. Has anyone done something like this? Point me in the right direction. UPDATE This is the code, I am not seeing the results in m...

Do I need to use the google analytics _linkByPost() method in this case?

I have a product website on the domain: http://www.example.com and I have my secure shopping cart on https://secure.example.com/checkout I have used the pageTracker._setDomainName(".example.com") method on both sites to set the main domain the same on both sides. Using firecookie I can see that the cookies are all set to .example.co...

In Google Analytics how do you track if people complete more than one goal?

Is there any way in Google Analytics to track whether somebody who completes Goal 2 has, on a previous visit, completed Goal 1? It looks like custom segments allows you to see people who have completed them in the same session, but not if they're completed on separate visits. ...

Best way to generate an automated report in Google Analytics for a specific collection of URLs

Currently using Google Analytics as a supplement to our paid tracking software, but neither of them are giving us exactly what we need. I have a list of about 60 or so urls (out of about 1500) on the site that I wish to setup a monthly report for that can be emailed to multiple recipients. I can't seem to figure out how to create a repo...

how to define the _udn in the GA?

the domain name in _udn should be with dot in front or not? Examples: _udn = ".site.com" _udn = "site.com" Thanks guys! ...

Using google analytics to track hits on an XML web service

I have a xml web service which I would like to track using Google Analytics. Since it uses a small client side javascript to do the tracking, this is a problem. Is it possible to workaround this without running a javascript client server side? ...

can i make my google analytics result public ?

Hi everyone, I work in a small company and we - as many others = use google analytics to monitor how well/bad our site is doing. To access this information we put the google account's details (username and pwd) and off we go. I now want to share this information with one of my clients but I don't want to give him my google account. ...

Integrating Google Analytics into GWT application

This should be totally simple but I can't get it working no matter what I try. I'm trying to use Google Analytics with GWT application. From what I understood, there are two way to do it: First is synchronous, by inserting tracking code at the end of <head> section HTML page and then calling this method: public static native void recor...

how to use google analytics to count clicks on a button

Hi everyone, I have google analytics on my site. One page has a button which when pressed executes some javascript. It would be nice to monitor the number of hits the button receives when people come to this page. Can anybody suggest the easiest way to achieve this with google analytics ? Are there any best practices to do this ? th...

Google analytics and dynamic pages

I have a (Symfony based) website. I would LIKE to analyize the site traffic using Google Analytics. My site is divided into several (i.e. N) categories, each of which may have 0 to M sub categories. Schematically, the taxonomy of the site breaks down into something like this: N major categories Each major category may have 0 to M sub ...

Google Analytics Event Tracking and Variable visibility.

Hi guys, I have added to my html page the standard latest snippet to get google analytics to work: ... ... var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-15080849-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga....

How to capture if a visitor is from an google adwords click.

When a user signs up on my site I want to be able to store whether or not they came to my site via an Adwords campaign. I know google uses javascript to track conversions based on a cookie that is created on the users machine. Is there a way I can check this cookie so I can store the source against the user account? ...

Combining Content Data in Google Analytics

When I first start one of my Wordpress blogs, I had the permanent URL for each post include the date of posting. The slug format looked like this: /blog/2010/01/25/this-is-my-article/ Later on, I changed it so that the date was not included in the permanent URL, like this: /blog/this-is-my-article/ and setup a redirect plugin to make ...

Google Analytics: Spider Image

i'd like to have google analytics also spider images (eg. livecams) - i mean it should directly spider how much a certain .jpg was loaded. is this possible? ...

Show Google Analytics dashboard on my site

I have an ASP.NET website set up, and I'm using Google Analytics for page tracking. The only thing I don't like is that I have to go away from my site (to the Google Analytics site) to see the report. Is there any way to show the Google Analytics data on my own site with all the AJAX that they have? ...

Google Analytics testing/sandbox environment?

Is there any Google Analytics testing/sandbox environment for testing your JS custom code before putting it to live system? I don't want to use my real tracking ID to see if everything is correct on my dev. environment, neither I want to put my code untested live... Is there any techniques or maybe some fake Analytics tracking lib I ...

Google analytics and asp.net wizard control

Hi! I want to use Google Analytics on my asp.net website and I need to track conversion for a goal that I have setup in GA. I need to see the funnel, the pages leading to the goal. The problem is that these pages are actually the steps of a asp.net wizard control. What is the best way to track each step of the wizard control as individu...

Regular expression to validate a Google Analytics UA Number

It's not 100 percent clear to me that the Google Analytics UA Numbers are always 6 digits, a dash, and 2 digits as Google often mentions in their documentation. There are frequent counter-examples that use fewer than 6 for the account portion and 1-4 for the profile. All of the examples always show numbers but it's not even clear that th...

Problem with Google Analytics for Android : "Dispatcher thinks it finished, but there were 543 failed events"

Anyone know how to solve this problem? 03-23 13:03:20.585: WARN/googleanalytics(3430): Problem with socket or streams. 03-23 13:03:20.585: WARN/googleanalytics(3430): java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe 03-23 13:03:20.585: WARN/googleanalytics(3430): at org.apache.harmony.luni.platform.OSNetworkSystem.sendStreamImpl(Native Met...

Basic site analytics doesn't tally with Google data

After being stumped by an earlier quesiton: SO google-analytics-domain-data-without-filtering I've been experimenting with a very basic analytics system of my own. MySQL table: hit_id, subsite_id, timestamp, ip, url The subsite_id let's me drill down to a folder (as explained in the previous question). I can now get the following ...