Just want to thank everyone in advance for the help and information gathered.
Here is basically what I'm trying to accomplish:
I need sub-domain visitor statistics to be tracked in a
single profile, show up as the referring site and still allow for event tracking
I have read this, http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiDomainDirectory.html#_gat.GA_Tracker_._setDomainName, but I am just unclear if what I am looking for can be done by setting the domain name to 'www.example.com'.
Again, thank you for the help.
Well, for the first part of your request the documentation nails it: "[do this...] if you want to track visitor behavior across sub-domains in the same profile"
As for storing the subdomains as a referral, it only takes a day to test. The documentation, as you said, isn't too clear on that but if they are being tracked as separate entities within the same profile I would imagine you can see the referring traffic data in the traffic sources section of GA.
Good luck!
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Pls apologize if I'm not clear enough, i'll try to be as concise as possible.
I'm working on a a company that created it's own competitors, each has it own website, all share the same GA through GTM. Cross-domain tracking is implemented and working.
I want to know if users do actually visit these different sites, which is very likely because there is a lot of research before buying what this company offers.
I understand User Id's will not do the trick because I want to track them before visitors identify themselves through a form. There's no login.
Initially I thought I'll be able to create a segment to narrow down to users with more than one of this company's domains in their history, but that is not working. Should that do the trick?
Thanks.
In the view that get all data you have to create a segment to show users that visited first and second domain. If it is greater than 0 means the cross domain is set correctly.
For good implementation see Troubleshooting Cross-Domain Tracking in Google Analytics: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.simoahava.com/amp/analytics/troubleshooting-cross-domain-tracking-in-google-analytics/
In Google Analytics, I have navigated to All Accounts-> SomeDomain.
I see a lot of traffic to that domain.
However, most pages listed there are from another domain of mine.
Real-Time for example shows this:
This is hilarious because this page doesn't exist on that domain.
I thought that it shows only traffic to the domain that I have selected above after "All accounts".
Is that not correct?
Or does anybody know any situation where this might happen?
This goes on since months already.
My GA is managed via GTM.
I don't use any CMS.
In GTM, I have a GA Page View Trigger:
I don't see where I could have made a mistake.
Does anybody do?
Thank you.
Create a custom report with dimension Hostname and metric Sessions (for example). You'll see what domains send data to your GA Property.
May be somebody stole code of your site (including trackers).
You can filter alien domains in GA settings for View.
UPD. Lookup table to push GA ID's depending on Hostname.
I am not sure if this is possible, nor that I could find any leads yet.
I want to be able to return only the total 'Page Views' number of any website URL, that uses Google Analytics. With GA API, I can use this by logging-in but only for the limited websites I am authorized to see the stats.
However, I only need to display total page views for requested page URL (not entire domain & no information is stored on the server.
Is there any way we can achieve this?
EDIT:
After answers from Tom & Blexy -- I would like to rephrase it.
What're the best ways to estimate page views of any URL example.com/this-is-url, from single/multiple sources, like Alexa?
TIA :)
I think you're asking if there's any way to see GA data for other sites - say, stackoverflow.com. If so, then no, there is no way to access GA reporting for sites your Google account does not have access to.
Take a look at Google Analytics superProxy. It will require some setup, but I believe it's one of the only ways to publish your data publicly without the use of a dashboard, etc.
Please don't kill me if I'm asking this question in the wrong place.
I have followed these instructions to exclude myself from Google Analytics. How can I verify that my filter is working?
Well, I would say to checkout Real-time reports, but they don't apply filters and will show you all traffic.
One way I check to see if they are working (and I am assuming you've applied a IP filter), is to create two Views (profiles), one that includes only your IP and one that excludes your IP. Then, go visit a bunch of pages on your site and wait a few hours (2-3 usually) and you should start seeing data in the internal only profile, and not seeing data in the external profile.
There could be another way, but this has worked for me.
I have a web app that I deployed in AppHarbor with Google Analytics. Development is still ongoing and I test it very often live to checkout for example stuffs I did with the CSS, etc.
Everything is working fine but I'd like to know how many times I am accessing the website apart from the rest of the visitors who visits it. When checking the reports in Google Analytics it only shows me the ISPs of the visitors. I'll need something more drilled down like an IP address, but this seems to go against Google Analytic's policy and I do not know if this is even possible still.
Like right now I have 72 visits. But I have been testing so a lot of those could just be me. Would be good to know the actual visitor count.
I know this is probably a little late but you can set a filter to ingore your own traffic from reports. Here is how you do it.
In addition for adding a deprecated variable and using filters, you can build the code so that it only prints the tracking code if e.g. an identifier cookie is not found. Other common option is a URL parameter.
You can then set this cookie for your browser and be excluded from traffic.