google-analytics

in google analytics, what is 'ga:accountName' for ?

In google analytics, what is 'ga:accountName' for ? it might seem like a straightforward question but I can't find anywhere some documentation which tells me what ga:accountName is supposed to return. if I run the google's code from the java example: private static void getAccountFeed(AnalyticsService analyticsService) thr...

How to track different button clicks with Google Analytics and AJAX?

I have several pages, let's call them A, B and C. Each of these pages has a form where the user can type in some information and click a button to send those information to the server. This button click is performed in an UpdatePanel to prevent a full postback. A customer of ours now wants to know how many % of the using visiting each s...

Is Google Analytics for Mobile available for Windows Mobile / Compact Framework

Recently Google introduced an SDK for application usage tracking on mobile devices (Google Analytics for Mobile Apps). Unfortunately, it seems that it only supports IPhone and Android devices. Do you have any idea if this framework can somehow be used from Windows Mobile / Compact Framework applications or if Google is planning to rele...

how to Google Analytic dat through YQL or Yahoo pipes??

I use Google analytic, i want to retrieve the last 100 search string from my Google analytic account using YQL or Yahoo pipes, how can i do it?? Please help.. ...

google analytics with SWFAddress

How do I incorporate Google Analytics into a Flash AS2 site that uses SWFAddress please? What code do I need and where does it go? Many thanks for your help. ...

Use analytics tool to tie browser behavior to back end transactions

Can I use an analytics tool like Google Analytics to tie user behavior to back end (Java) transactions? I know I can use the analytics API to store custom data, like an account number or something that I can tie to the log/database created from the Java classes, but is this the best way? What I want to do is see how many users access e...

Google Website Optimizer not tracking conversions

In a nutshell my split tests aren't tracking conversions at all. My A/B pages are on http://www.mydomain.com, and my conversion page is the last stage of my shopping cart on https://secure.mydomain.com. I thought the most concise way of explaining this would be to post my page source code: http://pastebin.com/ru7dCDqD To summarize, ...

Google Analytics - async tracking with two accounts

I'm currently testing GAs new async code snippet using two different tracking codes on the same page; _gaq.push( ['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1'], ['_trackPageview'], ['b._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-2'], ['b._trackPageview'] ); Although both codes work, I've noticed that they present inconsistent results. Now, we aren'...

how to best track page metadata along with URL in Google Analytics

I have an analytics web service that provides pageview statistics for several separate websites that are all serving up press releases. The analytics service pulls data for each of its client sites from Google Analytics and then answers API calls like "give me the 10 most viewed press releases for the past week." I want each of the pres...

Using GData and the Google Analytics on Android

I am wondering what my options are for using GData and specifically the analytics api on android to build a small widget. After searching around for a while I couldnt come up with any libraries with decent examples. Are there any dedicated libraries with some decent examples / doco to do this sort of thing? I would like to target 1.5 bu...

Looking for a service that lets me easily track phone call #'s and just forward the calls elsewhere

Want something inexpensive that just tells me how many calls a number gets, id like a different # for different sources of users and want to track volume from each source Any ideas? Thanks Aaron ...

Google Analytics without ga.js

I can't find anything recent on this. Is there any documentation on how to track with Google Analytics without using ga.js? I want a JS implementation on mobile devices but I don't want to load up 9KB of local memory or use server-side GA. I'm primarily interested only in tracking page views and uniques. Has anyone rolled their own GA im...

Google Analytics - Goals - Advanced Segments - Does it keep cookies for tracking visitors?

Hi there, I am working with Google Analytics - Goals and Funnels for quite sometime, but one thing is is not clear for me. I would very much appreciate if you could help me. We are advertising on several sites rotating several different ads. Our main goal is to collect as many sign-ups (new users) as possible for as low price as possib...

Avoid Google Analytics from categorizing pop-up as entrance

hey there, in my google analytics account there is a page tracked usually opened as a javascript window.open() pop-up (same domain as referring page). unfortunately, g.a. categorizes the pop-up page as entrance, although it is just a step in the whole navigation flow. how can i avoid this? thanks for your help! ...

How does google-analytics guarantees that the tracking record is coming from the real site

When you sign up to google analytics it instructs you to use a javascript snippet on every page you want to track. This code includes an API key, which is visible to everyone who views your source code. How does it guarantees that the request is coming from the real site, and not from a third-party who wants to mess with your statistics...

How does Google Analytics save data to a database

Hello everyone, I am making a Google Analytics like project for my school assignment. I have two questions primarily: 1) Exactly when does Google store the data to the database? When it does it use XHR with some server side scripting language to store it to the database or is there a way to do it using plain javascript? 2) How do I get...

Managing multiple apps with one Google Analytics account?

I've just setup a Google Analytics for Mobile Apps account and I've implemented the SDK in my iPhone app with no trouble at all. However, I haven't figured out how to manage multiple apps with one account. It seems fairly easy to setup multiple subdomains when dealing with websites and I've noticed the javascript code has a setSubdomain ...

Google Analytics - Goal Funnel Steps

Is there a way to test the url you're entering in a step, to see if Google Analytics will recognize it? What I'd like to do is provide some web page or some web service with a URL, and get a pass or fail. It passes if Google Analytics recognizes a page hit to the url. Let me give some context. We've been having issues with our goal f...

The distance between any two pages in Google Analytics

With a Funnel you can determine whether users navigated a certain path to some destination page. Is there a way to determine if users ever got from page A to page B regardless of which and how many pages they hit in between? ...

Google Analytics Widget Tracking

Hello, I have a form that is generated on a customer's website (lets say customer.com) with javascript that a user fills out and it sends to my site (app.com). I would like to be able to provide information to the customer such as how effective their AdWords campaign was and what search engines users used to end up filling out the form....