google-analytics

Create google analytics profile by filtering using a custom variable

I have 10 servers (will eventually be hundreds) that I need to profile using google analytics. On each of these servers I have plain vanilla tracking code with custom variables as follows: <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'cloud.nimbo...

Does google analytics slow down my website?

I am at the final stages of my website, and currently I need to find a suitable statistics application/tool. I have looked into webalizer, but it seems outdated. Also, I have looked into Google analytics, but I am afraid that if I implement it, my website will go slow. It is already pretty heavy with database material being displayed w...

google analytics creates broken links for IE8

We have been successfully running a Django site for a couple of years. We use the following (standard) google analytics code for most of our pages. <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga...

Explaining Google Analytics async tracker

I have a as to how google's async analytics tracker works. The following code is used to init a command array: <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push( ['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxxx-x'], ['_trackPageview'] ); </script> Now, this is a standard array that gets replaced once the GA's code is loaded ...

Auto Add Google Analytics Code to a HTML page each time the page is rendered

I have a web site hosted on an a Apache web server. Another person uploads static html files to a folder each week via an ftp generated from third party software. I am looking to insert Goggle Analytics code to each page as it is rendered while preserving the URL's, original HTML and process of uploading. I do not know when the files ar...

using google analytics to track user-wise information

What is the best option to track user wise analytics? I am looking for google analytics along with per-user reports. some questions: 1) was using custom variables to track the userId and was able to see the report in Visitors -> 'Custom Variable', any way to see the same on the content report. There is an option for 'user defined variab...

Changing domain url in google analytics

Is it possible to change the website url in google analytics to a new domain and still keep old statistics. I tried changing it using "Edit" link below "Check Status" on the profile settings page, it changed on the settings page but it still appears with old domain to the left of UA Identifier on home page. ...

Google analytics; Short setup Q

I have just added the code to my index.html and uploaded the file. But Google Analytics Status says the code is not installed (not found). I have a VPS (own server) which I manage myself. Thing is, in my case, I have a setup like this: IP adress at a VPS provider Domain name at an ISP A-Pointer to point my domain to my IP adress...

Google Analytics Android SDK: Tracking My App Version & Device Model Name

I'd like to be able to track the Version number of my application using Google Analytics Android SDK, and the Device Model name for people connecting to my application; What is the best way of achieving this? I'm assuming that I might be able to do something like: Device Model Name: tracker.trackPageView("/testApplicationHomeScreen...

Programatically track conversions with/whithout Google Analytics - SpringMVC

I need to track conversions from a banner ad which will be displayed on different affiliate websites. This is not via AdWords. Now, I read about Campaigns and Goals in Google Analytics, and I think this approach could work. But, I'm trying to find a more automatic solution, if such exists, to ease the work load on the marketing people. ...

Have you done interesting things with the Google Analytics API?

I haven't heard many stories about cool things built with the Google Analytics API. Care to share your stories? ...

google analytics can not see the code on the site

GA code is placed just before </head> tag, but for more than 3 days i still get "code is not installed" here is the code <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-18367XXX-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'tex...

does requesting an rss feed count as hits to a site?

I have an iphone app which streams in a website/blogs rss feed. Will each request from an app count as a hit to the website, or how can the users be counted, other than downloads? Thanks ...

Google Analytics tracking not working in OOB SL4 app using Microsoft Silverlight Analytical Framework

Hi, I am using the MSAF library for my Silverlight Google action tracking, however I cannot get it to work out of browser/offline and there is very little info about it in the wild. I run fiddler and can see the hits being logged on the live site, however, when my app is offline or running OOB, actions never show up in fiddler or the G...

Google Analytics question - tracking somePage.exe pages

If I have my server setup to serve up pages with .exe extension as html content, and I put standard GA tracking code (javascript) onto my page, will GA reject hits to that page, since it's a .exe extension? I am asking because .exe files are traditionally tracked as downloads by tracking tools... ...so has anybody had experience with...

google-analytics iOS SDK or serverside: completely bogus timestamps?

http://code.google.com/intl/en/mobile/analytics/docs/iphone/ Known Issues * Possible inaccurate timestamps: timestamps are recorded at the time the application dispatches to Google Analytics, so if a user experiences long periods of offline use, the timestamps may not be 100% accurate. That seems to be putting it mildly -- if you hav...

Get Android Google Analytics referrer tag

We're planning to use Google Analytics to track ad click-through referrals, through the Android Market, to our application. According to the Google Documentation the referrer tag comes through via an intent, and is automatically recorded by the Google Analytics library. That's great, but we need to extract that referral tag for our own...

How to track clicks of ads in email using google analytics?

Hi everyone. I have this problem and really don't know how to solve this. I'm having this newsletter using phplist system and I have to include some ads in emails. Now that's all fine but my client wants to track the number of clicks on those ads using google analytics. Is there any way to do that? Thanks in advance for any hints. ...

How does google analytics track events when user navigates to other page inside one domain.

In Google's documentation it is said that an event can be tracked in the following way: <a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'category', 'action', 'opt_label', opt_value]);">click me</a> or older version: <a onclick="pageTracker._trackEvent('category', 'action', 'opt_label', opt_value);">click me</a> I was looking with Firebug to...

How to track file downloads

I am running a Image gallery website which can be used to download images... say if you call somedomain.com/flowers it will return a zip file containing top 10 flower images.... Now my requirement is to track these downloads.. how can I implement this.. any possibility to use Google Analytics. Update: I forgot to add another importan...