To what extent does Google Analytics impact performance? I'm looking for the following: Benchmarks (including response times/pageload times et al) Links or results to similar benchmarks One (possible) method of testing Google Analytics (GA) on your site: Serve ga.js (the Google Analytics JavaScript file) from your own server. Upda...
I'm using GA on my site and need to add tracking to a several pages. These pages are rendered by means of a master page in conjunction with a Telerik tab control. When a tab is selected, the code evaluates which tab was clicked and inserts the appropriate user control for that page and rerenders it. According to the browser, it's always ...
I send a confirmation link via e-mail (in multiple places) but it seems Analytics doesn't recognize those clicks (given URL is visited) unless the visit immediate. I am guessing the last part is about session expiration. How can I define my goal funnel so that confirmation page landings are recognized even after a day or two? My confir...
We are releasing a paid web application. We have Google Analytics and want to set up conversion goals to see who signs up on the various accounts. I.e. what demographic is buying the highest plan, etc. The problem is that Google Analytics assumes that it is tracking a single domain, and our application operates on several sub-domains (si...
Hi: I am developing a community web site targeted to Mobile devices which is developed in MVC Preview 5 (C# asp.net). Now i want to add the code for sending request to Ad-Mob. I am confused that how can I place that code at some point so when any user hits the URL a request will be sent to Ad-Mob, should i place the code on master page ...
I have my site.com and blog.mysite.com on a different IP address. Can I use the same Google analytics ID for both sites? Does Google analytics look at what IP address the recorded visitor information is from? If it doesn't, what prevents random sites from including your Google analytics tag and sending random data to your account? ...
What method would you use to associate tracking information in Google Analytics with a particular named user? I want to be able to do custom reports, and ultimately drill down on usage by user. EDIT I was thinking that perhaps the EventTracking API would be able to help somehow. Also, referring to this documentation. ...
Has anybody tried this before? How can i amend the google analytics tracking code .js into the publish.htm via visual studio? Is there an easy way? For example by using post build events or what? Any help appreciated! ...
We're about to deploy a new Django website, and we want to use Google Analytics to keep track of traffic on the site. However, we don't want all of the hits on development instances to contribute to the Google Analytics statistics. There are a few ways we could deal with this: have a configuration option in settings.py which the base...
I am using Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer together. On our development rig I suddenly realized that some cookies were set twice. The GA cookies: __utma __umtb __utmc __utmz where all set both by GWO and GA. I had only expected to see one set of these cookies. GWO set them with a dot in front of the domain name: .de...
I'm looking for a guide to interpreting results from Google Analytics. Also is there an API for accessing the data? ...
I am looking to track a Pop-Over page that appears when the forum is submitted at: http://www.xebra.com/salesAssistance.html I tried adding the urchin/google analytics code to the page that is displayed in the pop-over window, but whenever I do so the status bar displays "Read http://www.google-analytics.com/" and the entire form page...
Why does the Google Analytics script I add to my webpage need to come in two script blocks? <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/s...
We have some third parties that are sending us traffic and have asked us to put a tracking pixel on the confirmation page so they can track through the sales. We are currently using Google analytics for our own usage. Google will remember the original referral through cookies. This may be a good or bad thing. If someone purchases throu...
I've been tasked with implementing Google Analytics inside our (ASP.NET) application. Here is the scenario: A single web-site on one domain Multiple companies all use this single website Statistics need to be collected on a per company basis as well as the whole Report access needs to be allocated on a per company basis or for all (Wou...
Without using any other JS frameworks (dojo, jquery, etc), how would I dynamically load Google Analytic's javascript to be used on a web page for web-tracking? The typical appropriate to dynamically loading JS is to do the following: var gaJs = document.createElement("script"); gaJs.type = "text/javascript"; gaJs.src = "http://www.goog...
What is the best way to make a website based on JavaFX supported with ad revenue? Do you have to put the ads out side of the applet in the regular html space, or can you use JWebPane to render the add inside the applet? ...
We've got a site that shows some content in iframes loaded from another domains. What I'd like to do is setup some Goals to track if this stuff is clicked, is this possible to track these clicks? I know that this content us outside our domain but is it still in the dom? ...
I am trying to figure out just how Google Analytics logs the actual time of an event such as a visit or a click. Does it use the time being passed by the HTTP request, the date in the HTTP Header, or the date it actually receives the request ? The reason why I am asking is because I am developing an app where there MAY be some times ...
Google announced the Analytics Data Export API some days ago, thereby making it much easier to get analytics data for a site. The API debuted with Java and Javascript clients, but no direct .Net support (other than going straight for the XML). It seems the API is similar to the other Google Data APIs though, and there's a .Net client for...