google-analytics

Tracking image views in Fancybox (a jQuery Lightbox) using Google Analytics

I am working on this site: http://www.vomero.co.uk/Torquay.aspx and would like to track views of the images (which open in a Fancybox gallery). I know I could add an onClick event to each image, but since the gallery allows the user to view all the images using Next/Prev icons it is unlikely users will actually click each photo. Any id...

Can Google Analytics show me visits by hour?

I am interested in seeing visits on my site broken down by hour - is there any way to generate a report of this in Google Analytics? It appears that all metrics are only broken down by day. Maybe I can get this information through the GA API? ...

Web stats: Calculating/estimating unique visitors for arbitary time intervals.

Hi, I am writing an application which is recording some 'basic' stats -- page views, and unique visitors. I don't like the idea of storing every single view, so have thought about storing totals with a hour/day resolution. For example, like this: Tuesday 500 views 200 unique visitors Wednesday 400 views 210 unique visitors Thur...

Google Analtyics: Giving a third party only partial read-only report access?

I have a Google Analytics account for over a dozen web sites and I need to provide a third party access to view analytics for just one of the sites. I've figured out how to create a user (read-only) account for specific site profiles but I don't see any way to limit the kind of reports they can see. There may be sensitive info in the d...

Is there a way track the focus on tab with Javascript?

We need to track the EFFECTIVE time on site of our users Most users, when they're done, leave the tab open and move to another tab Time on site it's extremely inaccurate Is there a Javascript Event to track the "loss of focus" of the current tab ? ...

Malformed utmcc in utm.gif request

I have a page that is using Google Analytics to track page views as well as track events within the page. The initial _gat._trackPageview request works as intended (under normal circumstances, details to follow). However, on subsequent utm.gif requests, it seems there is a malformed utmcc argument in the querystring. The campaign trackin...

Is it possible to use the Google Analytics API to provide stats for customer's page views?

Let's say I run a site where customers are willing to pay for a page that shows some sort of cool info about them. The whole site is tracked using Google Analytics. To provide stat tracking for the customers, would it be possible to mine the data from Google Analytics, using the AJAX API? Are there any show-stoppers I should look out ...

What are good conventions for Google Analytics on Android?

I'm about to implement Google Analytics support in an Android app, but after some googling, the documentation seems delightfully sparse. Are there any useful conventions or advice (i.e. when not to trigger pageviews/events, or something) that a newcomer to GA should know? ...

how to interrupt a form submit to call some javascript?

Hi! I'm using a form provided to me by PayPal in order to sell something on my website. Before the user hit "checkout" via the paypal form button, though, I want to track an event in google analytics. i have found this article via google analytics http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html that explains h...

Tracking Traffic Source

Does Google Analytics store the utm_source, utm_medium paramaters in a cookie or something similar that I can access on my own site using PHP? - OR - does anyone have an example of code I could use to identify a traffic source ie. PPC, Natural etc. ...

Using Google Analytics without sending query string data

We're doing a simple implementation of Google Analytics on our ASP.NET with jQuery/AJAX web, and for most of it we just call _trackPageview and let Google do the rest. We do a lot of data transfer in query strings, and recently, management became concerned that a lot of our data (such as product numbers) would be sent to Google. Withou...

How to make Google Analytics report referrals from sites promoting our site?

My company has a new partner that is promoting us on their site. It is a much larger site than ours (much more traffic). Google Analytics doesn't report a single referral from them. We know this is not possible because we've had people tell us they found us from our parnter's site. We also tested the links and they all work correctl...

Using Google Analytics filter to get a specific search

So I'm trying to get a site to have a profile with only one group being looked at. I tried putting in a filter that only included traffic the the subdirectories containing /browse.php?CISOROOT=/wss but that removed everything from the results. When I search the top content for browse.php I can find the page, but when I add the ?CISOR...

What's absolute unique visitors in Google Analytics regarding my iPhone app?

I have an iPhone app connected with Google analytics. The mistery comes when checking absolute unique visitors in the https://www.google.com/analytics. It is not the different visitors have played with my app as I expected, cause it shows a much higher number than we are in our development team. So, What's absolute unique visitors in Goo...

Does there exist a reason to put google analytics in head and not in body?

Hi, Does exist reason to put google analytics in head and not in the end of body? (I working on big website that its works in this way) Option 1: <head> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; </head> Option 2 - in bottom of body : <body> //html code <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js...

Google Analytics on asp.net site - Syntax Error Line 1

I have placed the following snippet within my tag. When I browse to the site with Internet Explorer IE I get the following syntax error. I have tried placing within the body top, bottom etc. and I cannot avoid this syntax error. I have also tried putting in an empty page to ensure there wasn't any conflict with other js. I still hav...

Google Analytics - Filter Regexp

Will this filter for Google Analytics do what I think it's going to: /pages/(2377|2363|2365|2366|2324|2364|2751|2310).asp I need only those particular pages. Thanks ...

iPhone Google Analytics - identifying unique users

Hi there, I'm in the process of adding Google Analytics to my iPhone app, but I'm not at all experienced with Analytics. One thing I would like it to tell me is how many unique people are using the app. Suppose one user were to use her iPhone app on ten different wireless networks, would Google Analytics iOS SDK interpret this as ten d...

Google analytics filter suggestion?

I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 app that uses URLS such as: /rsvp/33c4cf68-a2fe-4c0f-9834-08838e0532c3 /rsvp/4f28dad7-b05c-4887-818f-b4ae664b7192 /rsvp/bf9b6595-171b-4f8b-821e-2d1df22440e5 /rsvp/7b5ae33a-2e79-43fc-92fb-05800c640610 /rsvp/5d56bce6-aa62-4b41-80c4-aa1dd1d2c192 where each user has their own GUID. Is it possible for me to use a f...

Google Analytics Code ONLY showing up in Chrome

I've been tasked with setting up a Google Analytics account for a potential client on their site, which unfortunately is powered by some Site Builder software. I eventually found where the template tags are located in the jumble of pages, and pasted my GA code in as you would normally. I then go to Google and check trackings been inst...