Trying to set up Google analytics tracking on my site. Right now it's in QA phase, site is not officially launched with vanity URL yet. So we are using Site IP address to enter in web property URL.
However, we do not get any data in GA, I wonder if it';s because we are using IP rather than url.
I see a post asking the same question but no answers yet: Google Analytics - IP Address as Website URL
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I rebranded my website and changed the domain name, I setup a forward at my web host.
So for example www.myoldsite.com forwards to www.mynewsite.com
In Google Analytics www.myoldsite.com is still getting lots of sessions, and www.mynewsite.com isn't, I don't understand why!
I have a share point website running on a server, and have a asp.net website that that is configured to run attached to the share point site. This this not exposed as a domain site( i.e. with .com or .in or .nl etc), i access this site in my development and test environment using a URL something like
https://www-dev-myname.domainname.local/
In google analytic i am not able to add this as default URL for an account, it does not allow me to save it.
Is there a way i can create a account with a URL of this type and setup analytic for my site.
You can simply enter a valid url - it does not need to be that actual url of your website, the only consequence is that you cannot user inpage analyses (that and the little icon in the page content report that allows you to launch a url in a new window).
Wrong domain name nonwithstanding Google Analytics will work on any domain where it can set a cookie (and if it can't you can set the cookie domain to none, in that case you need to provide a client id yourself to maintain session tracking).
We have Urchin installed for the server statitics. Our server has an intranet subdomain (of course, banned to the outer access). When I look for the referal of any intranet page, I found that almost half of the access are from "direct[(none)]" and "google[organic]":
"direct[(none)]" access includes bots, direct keyboard access,
pdf/documents links... and all of these have the acces banned, and
"google[organic]" access are done through the serach engine
that can't acces to index the page nor redirect to that
So, I must conclude that the statistics of Urchin are not faithful.
Can anybody confirm that terrible conclusion? Or can anybody explain and correct it?
There are several ways to install Urchin. In this response I assume you use the tag method.
Urchin will create traffic sources based on document.referrer, it doesn't guess, it uses real data.
When you install Urchin one of the options you need to set is the domain name. This setting is used to store a first party cookie that will hold session information including referral info.
Let's say your intranet site is intranet.mycompany.com, this subdomain is private to your network but maybe the cookie setting in Urchin is set to mycompany.com, this will create a cookie in that domain and this cookie will apply to all subdomains.
Maybe this hostname has other subdomains, some that might be accessible outside your corporation and since they share the same cookie, they will share the same traffic source as well.
google/(organic)
Imagine this scenario:
User Looks for Company in Google
User arrives at the main public site at www.mycompany.com. Urchin registers this as a new visit from google/(organic).
User opens the intranet website
Urchin uses the same cookie and this is seen as a continuation of the visit that already has a traffic source
Urchin just reuses the google/(organic) traffic source defined in the cookie.
Also Urchin can share cookies with Google Analytics, so if you are not using Urchin, but instead Google Analytics the scenario above is also possible.
direct(none)
Now about direct/(none). This is used everytime urchin can't determine a better traffic source. In other words when the javascript variable document.referrer is empty.
This can happen in a variety of moments, including but not limited to:
Clicks on a pdf document
Clicks in a Microsoft Office document
Directly typing the url in the browser navigation bar
Clicking in a bookmark
Going from an HTTPS to an HTTP webpage
I have a website subdomain.domain.com. I created an analytics account for this and included the tracking code. Later I registered a new domain xyz.com and pointed to the same website subdomain.domain.com. In Google analytics report, will the analytics display the traffic from both domains or do I need to make some alterations?
Google Analytics tracks website traffic no matter what hostname is specified in the page URL. You can use the Hostname dimension in the content report to find out.
In your case, depending on the type of hostname redirection you may or may not see the xyz.com in your reports. When you navigate to the xyz.com in browser, pick any page and can see in your browser xyz.com - it will be tracked. If you can see subdomain.domain.com - the last will be tracked.
If you website is accessible via subdomain.domain.com and xyz.com - you may have an issue with cross-domain users and duplicated (inflated count of) users since GA cookie in a browser is set per hostname
I have the same situation where our URL has changed and we are now in a crossover period while both URLs are active.
Without changing the tracking code I am getting our stats as before but I cannot tell in the analytics reports which URL the visitor used to access the site. If that is not of concern to you then you don't need to update your tracking code.
There is a secondary dimension under Content called "Hostname", this will break out your traffic by whether or not it was visited from subdomain.domain.com or xyz.com
Anybody ever successfully used an IP address as the website URL for a profile in Google Analytics?
See my post in the Google Analytics Forum also:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=4551af07a8fce6ac&hl=en
You can track the data in Google by adding the ip address along with the port number as website url.