I've just added the Google Analytics tracking to my website (cca 350 static HTML pages).
I realized that I run Xenu's Link Sleuth to check my links pretty often, nearly after each change in my HTML files. I guess such checking will be counted as regular accesses to my website by Google Analytics. I would like to exclude the Xenu checking from the Google Analytics reports. Is this possible?
So far, I have excluded my own access by filtering out my IP address. Can I do something similar for the Xenu? I am running the Xenu application always from my own PC, does it mean that by excluding my own IP, I have also excluded the Xenu checking, which is possibly using also my IP address?
As I am writing this, I am realizing that I am using also online HTML validator at http://validator.w3.org/ and another version here http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/. Can I somehow exclude also these checks?
Does Link Sleuth run JavaScript? If not, it won't do anything to Google Analytics.
From what I can see on the FAQ, Link Sleuth will only run JavaScript if you tell it to, and then only links that match your regular expression. Just don't get it to call the GA tracker.
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I hosted a website and included a Google Analytic tag in it to count the visitors. The website itself is kinda empty and has no purpose other than trying out Google Analytics.
It seems like Google Analytics can somehow find out if i visit the website via a proxy and doesnt add this visit to the visitorcount. It doesnt matter if i use the proxy directly in the browser or via a java framework like HtmlUnit or Selenium.
The frameworks and proxys themself are working, i checked it at websites like whatismyip dot com. The Analytic tag is also working, since it correctly adds normal visitors to the visitorcount.
So my question is: how does Google Analytic find out someone is using a proxy? As far as i know the only indications someone is using a proxy are in the HTTP-Headers (X-Forwarded-For tag and so on). But the JavaScript which is included in my site shouldnt have access to the HTTP-Request, right?
I used free proxys which can be found if you google "free http proxy list" or similar keywords. Does Analytic automaticly downloads and blacklists those IP-Adresses? Because i canot imagine any other way it can find out someone is using a proxy just via Javascript.
If you tick "Exclude bot" in View settings it may be that Analytics recognizes those IPs as spam sources. Since these proxies are free services they can be used frequently for this purpose by malicious people and Google has blacklisted them.
After using Goole Tag Manager from Goole Analystics it starts to collect the visitor info from other domains that even don't have the tag. These domains share same IP address but it shouldn't be the problem I guess. Any idea?
There can be many problems. Lets look at it:
do you manage the other pages?
is it possible you accidentally deployed the tag to this domains?
is it possible that you maybe accidently didnt change the UA-ID in
the tag you deployed?
check them with Google Tag Assistant extension installed and enabled
in Google Chrome for Google Tag Manager tag, its really on the page? see 3) with what UA-ID?
is there maybe standard Google Analytics tracking left on the other
domains?
Let me know I would like to dig into your problem and help it fix it. It really looks like some previous tag was forgotten on the other domains. There is no way how domain without any tag could appear in your GA, except of course the traffic spam bots, which can be filtered.
In that case refer to this page http://help.analyticsedge.com/spam-filter/definitive-guide-to-removing-google-analytics-spam/ which is kept up to date. Especially focus on Valid Hostname filter, but be careful with the deployment. Always preview, debug and test, before putting in into your main view in GA.
I'm trying to operate a Google analytics account which has now been locked out of due to the previous operator leaving the company. So I am unable to log in. I know the email, but not the password. I've searched ways to find the UA-ID , and apparently I'm supposed to look inside the <head> of my site's homepage. However I can't find anything there that looks like it is the UA-ID. Reason I need the UA-ID is so I can verify my site to google, so I can login to it. Can somebody give me some direction?
Install the Google Tag Assistant or the Google Analytics Debugger extension in Chrome, both will give you detailed information on your GA implementation (for the debugger you have to open the browser console).
Or simply go to the browser console, look at the network tab and search for a request to google-analytics.com/collect (or stats.doubleclick.com/collect if you have enabled demographic features in GA), and search the parameters for the tracking id (starts with "UA-").
I have a website wich is registered with google analytic so I can see the statistics of it The problem is that sometime it shows me this link :
website.com/www.bndv521.cf/
or:
website.com/admin
I do not know if this is a hacker trying to hack me or something but I think nobody will try to access my admin for good
Can you help me to know what is this link refers to ?
Consider checking for a malicious code included on your pages. And yes it's likely that some one is trying to access those pages but it may not execute because it's invalid path. You should consider blocking such ip addresses after checking in logs.
Although trying to reach an admin page seems a suspicious action, in our website we come accross this issue every one in ten thousand requests.
We think that a browser extension or a virus like program tries to change URL or trying to add this keyword to URL. Not for a hacking purpose, but to redirect to their advertisement website.
Very similar issue here: Weird characters in URL
After verifying my domain through HTML file verification should I also insert analytics code into Yoast SEO plugin or within functions.php file? Similarly, Is it safe to delete the html file after the verification?
Thanks,
Tahir
I'm guessing here but it sounds like you are confusing Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics.
I which case you'll have to keep the html file AND you have to insert Google Analytics code.
Google Webmaster Tools give you information about what people see in the search result list and if your site gets crawled correctly by Google. Google Analytics tell you where your visitors come from and what they do on your site, so these are quite different things.
Plus this probably belongs to webmasters.stackexchange.com (it's not exactly a programming question).