We just updated our website to the most recent WordPress version and switched hosting companies. Sometime during or after the switch over, our Google Analytics plugin was deactivated. I have since re-activated it but we are unable to see the history of the analytics prior to the switch over. Is there a way to get that history back?
In general, there is no way to get hold of Google Analytics data that you didn't track at the time. There is also no way to transfer data from one account, property or view to another.
If you had Google Analytics enabled on your site before, then the data that it gathered at that point will still be kept, so long as you remember the log-in details from the time and haven't deleted the account, removed yourself from it, or similar.
However there's no way to migrate it from an old Google Analytics account to a new one, so if the problem here is that you're not seeing your old data on the new account, then this is caused by the fact that the two trackers had different unique IDs, and there's no way to rectify this.
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We have a live google classics site that is currently tracked in google analytics. Because there is still work to be done, the team created a copy of our site for internal use, and it seems to be separate from the live site. The copied site isn't just a copied page or template. It's its own entity.
The problem is that Google Analytics combines both sites' data, so the overview data is not representative of the actual usage. I have 2 assumptions.
When the copy was made, it copied all settings including enabling analytics and the Analytics Web Property ID.
Or, someone enabled Analytics for the copy and added the same Analytics Web Property ID
All of this happened before my time, and since I am not an owner, I can't see the settings in 'Manage Site'. To my knowledge though, all the owner has to do is go to Settings -> Manage Site -> Statistics -> No Analytics for the copy site only. My fear is that in doing so, it affects the live copy as well and we disable the Analytics. But that wouldn't make sense considering they are 2 separate sites.
A side question is, when we disable Analytics, does the data already collected disappear, or if we reenable with the same tracking, then the data comes back?
So my question is, how do we get Analytics to stop combining the 2 sites' data? (Disable Analytics and remove the Analytics Web Property ID of the copy?)
Thank you so much!
Teresa
If you look at the analytics data, you can probably filter it by "hostname".
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034823?hl=en
What you would do in this case, you'd create a exclude filter, put in the hostname of the domain that you don't want and the view will prevent data coming in if it has that hostname.
The data won't disappear for the past and will reappear if you remove the filter, but the data for during the time when the filter is active won't be there. Essentially the data won't be collected.
currently we have a company blog that runs via blog.domain.com. Also we have our corporate site (domain.com) that is our "selling" site. The blog is about tutorials, open source stuff, totally non profit.
We want to examine if the blog has value to our business. Branding and so on... Will customers visit our blog, are users from our blog more likely to buy sth and so on.
Both Domains are within the same Google Analytics Account but as separate properties. Is it somehow possible?
I dont want to use something with Referal as solution since it just might be that someone visits our blog and returns after some week via an ad.
You cant analyse Google Analytics data across properties or accounts. Data can only be analyzed within the same property.
This is why its best not to split data between properties but to store everything in the same property when its the same web account. At the very least having one default property with all of the data can also be useful.
Is there a way with Google Analytics, or maybe with something else, to get the old analytics information on the wordpress website? I have not used any kind of analytics to track visitation.
So sorry if this is a stupid question or does not make sense.
Not possible to use JS(Google Analytics, etc) to access past visitors. The only thing you can possibly do, I would assume, is viewing the past server logs and seeing whos accessed the site by I.P. You could possibly parse this to show unique ones, showing unique visitors.
Though it's not at all accurate, that's the only option you have as far as I'm aware.
Go to http://www.alexa.com/ Find you user count, old your traffic
I have a client that runs a number of sites and I manage some of them. They are a large company so they have had a premium Google Analytics account for some time, likely because another project requested it and it was upgraded across the board.
Enter me, one project we are working on is improving the data we track in GA. Step one of my plan was to upgrade to analytics.js & the new universal tracking code and to add ecommerce tracking. Seemed simple enough, I've already done it for other clients.
Well I just discovered that premium account can not use the new universal tracking code. Insane move by Google IMO, I don't understand who signed off on giving free accounts a feature that premium accounts don't have access to but alas it is what it is. Source: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/upgrade/
I'm wondering what the best course of action is. Ideas:
Use the "old" method using ga.js--annoying because I'll have to rewrite everything once Google turns on support for premium accounts, I enjoy double the billable hours but would rather be more efficient
Downgrade part of the account--huge headaches here too, presumably whoever wanted premium to begin with will continue wanting it. Don't think I can seperate out only my projects without losing all past data.
Something else that will solve my problem? I'm hoping there's a plan I've overlooked.
Have you thought about implementing Google Tag Manager? By using GTM, you could
create a new universal analytics (analytics.js) account
create a google tag manager account
create a staging environment and add GTM to that
add both your ga.js and analytics.js accounts to GTM
QA and push to production
When analytics.js comes out of beta and is enabled for premium, simply do the migration and move your ga.js tracking code over to the analytic.js tags you've already setup.
I've written about the benefits of using dual-tagging using google tag manager in a blog post, but I think it's your best bet for not having to redo your implementation.
When setting up a Shopify App for presentation in the App store there is a text field for entering an Analytics account ID. I entered my old Analytics ID for an App, and then waiting some time before examining the results. When I logged into my Analytics account, sure enough there was a pretty line graph showing the visits from the App store patrons.
It showed me hundreds of people from the USA visited the App but nothing else.
Could someone with knowledge of Analytics suggest a couple of simple ways to get some value out of this feature? Perhaps some tips on how to configure Analytics to reveal something interesting about the visits?
Things you can try to “move some needles”:
Change the app name, copy or app banner on the short description. This intervention will affect the visits number you’re looking at.
Change the copy, video, or selling points on the app listing page. This intervention, combined with watching your visits:install rate tells you about conversion rate.
The most interesting thing for these types of listings is the referring sites, in my opinion. This will let you know how people are getting to your app and where you might be able to improve exposure.
Comparing referring sites to outcomes such as installs and reviews would also be useful because you can see how people who actually install the app get there, and the same thing with reviewers. Setting up goals in google analytics will help you track these things.