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Google Analytics API and Internal Search question

I'm trying to use Google Analytics API to query internal searches that happen on my site. I'd like to be able to query the keywords and the number of times that keyword was used in internal search, based on URL of a page on the site. The idea is to find out which keywords direct the user to a particular page. Does anyone know which di...

Auto login to Google Analytics??

Hello I have tried following similar steps as mentioned on this Auto login to Google Analytic to impress clients page <form id="googleanalyticslogin" action="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginBoxAuth" method="post"> <input type="text" name="Email" class="gaia le val" id="Email" size="18" value="[email protected]" /> <input type="p...

Trying to link http://www.example.com to my shopping cart on https://secure.example.com

Heres my saga - I'm trying to link http://www.example.com to my shopping cart on https://secure.example.com, but it doesnt seem to be linking correctly. Heres my code: <!--Google Analytics --> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unesc...

Goal in google analytics for wizards - repeated steps

My goal consist of 5 steps. Everithing works fine when user completes wizard without validation error, but if he returns to same step twice, goal don't get completed and google analytics registers that as exit from wizard. How can I fix this? ...

Form Journey Tracking using google analytics

Hi there, Is there anyway, using google analytics, to track a user's journey/selections through a long form so I can see where they drop off? I've created a 'contact us' form which starts with drop down menu which requires the user to make a choice i.e. apply for job, apply for funding etc. and then each option requires the user to fil...

Google Website Optimizer: track AJAX

I am tracking AJAX goals in Google Analytics with no problems. But I would like to use Google Website Optimizer to see what buttons or headlines get the most leads in our newsletter subscription form. Since a new subscription only triggers AJAX/Javascript, I cannot add a separate success/thankyou.html page to track in Google Website Ana...

Some Good Web Analytics Tools

Hi, I'm looking for a good analytics system which tracks what links a user has clicked on, how long he's stayed on the page, etc. Does anyone have any recommendations on programs to use? Not sure if Google Analytics does this Thanks ...

Google Translation API not working for even one page long documents

I'm using Google Translation API to translate text from Chinese Simplified to English in my C# program. The problem is if the text is small (around one line) the API is able to translate it, but if the text is larger (more than 3 lines) is gives an exception saying "The remote server returned an unexpected response: (414) Request-URI Too...

Google Analytics Library for As3

I am trying to push in the Google Analytics library into my As3 widget. I plan to use the EventTracking feature in addition to the regular HTML-like pageview tracking that it provides. I plan to use the library in As3 mode (not the Bridge mode) since the widget is embedded on a lot of external domains. Using the SWC to add the component...

what's the javascript "var _gaq = _gaq || []; " for ?

The Async Tracking in google analytics looks like this: var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http...

Google Analytics - Events versus Pageviews, can you compare them?

Hi, A mortgage page on our website is accesible by multiple links on one page. In order to determine which of the links on that same page has been clicked on, I use event tracking. All events for these links are being stored under the category: "mortgage" When I look at the total number of pageviews for this mortgage page and the total ...

Best Website Statistics tool for Drupal

What is the best free Website statistics setup I can have for Drupal 6 on Apache? Particularities: 1. Multisite install. Might want to look over several sites. Should be able to restrict view for clients to their own site. Some hits are bypassing Drupal. Some urls are not public. Some sites have little traffic, it would be nice to b...

google analytics not logging refer ~ have i done something wrong?

probably something simple how do i get google analytics to detect traffic that comes from a website that redirects to another? i.e someone visits www.abc.com, and are redirected to another site <?php header("Location:www.cde.com"); ?> how do i track these hits? nothing comes up..as i guess it's not strictly a "referrer". hope thi...

First Party and Third Party Cookie

I want to create a analysis project (just like google analysis),for getting conversion rate and track visitor count.How can we create first party cookie and third party cookie using php.Actually, how can we identify our third party and first party cookie.Need to follow any type of standard for identify them?if anybody know please give me...

Google Analytics API - Tying Behavior to Specific Dates

I am using the API to understand the performance of Adwords ad campaigns. I need to know how to attribute metrics back to the date dimension. For instance, for a given date, if I have 20 clicks, 18 visits, and 3 goal completions, does it mean that: 1) All of these actions happened on the day in question and are otherwise independe...

Google and Mirror Websites

Which is the best way to manage a website with one or more mirrors so that: Google don't consider it as "dupicated content" The website is correctly indexed No inconsistencies or duplicated information are present in Google Analytics The Google webmaster guidelines in general are respected NOTE: I'm not sure if I should ask this ques...

Parameter format when tracking Google Analytics events with server side request automation

I'm currently in the process of programming an utility which generates GA tracking pixel (utm.gif) URL:s based on given parameters. For those of you who are wondering why I'm doing this on the server side, I need to do this server side since the context which I'm going to start tracking simply doesn't support JavaScript and as such ga.js...

Each request takes 25-30 sec for Google Analytics API?

I'm using GAPI library (in PHP) for querying Google Analytics API. I request 2 dimensions (pagePath, date), 2 metric (pageviews, visits), past 365 days time range, and 2 filters for pagePath. Average time to get data for one query is 25-30 sec. When I use only 1 metric (pageviews), average response time is 3 sec. Why would there be s...

Javascript inside RSS file

I've been given a requirement to impliment some google tracking on an RSS feed. Currently we track when users click the RSS link but they also seem to want to track access to the RSS feed outside of that link. I could impliment this server side but I'm just wondering whether putting google tracking code (Javascript) inside of an RSS (XM...

Google analytics with several subdomains and several tracking codes

On my site I have complicated situation and want ask for advice how to do tracking best of all. On my site I have 2 main high level domains, for example www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com. They are working with the same app code, just domain names are different. www.domain1.com is available for public as well as integrated client site...