There are often cases where there is a need to add on the site the second counter of Google Analytics (usually from another account). Often seen cases where after installing a second counter first, worked before without problems, began to fail.
In this post I'll show you some things in the code, which can bring you many problems.
Not so long ago employees of SUP enabled Livejournal bloggers use their blog counter Google Analytics.
Blogger must perform two simple steps:
Create an account , indicating the address of your blog username.livejournal.com, get an ID UA-XXXXXXX-YY
Enter the journal and enter your ID in a special field
Customize Livejournal settings to work with Google Analytics
After that, each page of the journal will contain a standard counter code Google Analytics. More information .
Actually now the owners of blogs get from Google Analytics the same functionality as regular bloggers and site owners. Yet there are limits. On them will be discussed below.
I am not an active user of Twitter. In recent years begun to leave its reference to the positions for promotion.
I tag links to twitter by tags of Google Analytics to see in the report how many visitors come from it.
Anyone who has worked with Google Analytics, may ask: why tag links, if traffic from twitter will be seen as a referral.
A: I mark not just a particular site, I mark distribution channel links. Link in twitter can be copied and posted on other sites. But visitors from other resources I have to see how visitors from twitter - so I can assess more efficiently twitter as a channel to promote your site.
Now I'll share my approach to the automatic creation of short-tagged links.
Google Analytics is very pleased me, because almost all of my latest blog post about it. The interest I have not just a consumer - looking for bugs, errors, the possibility astute use..
Today I want to share found pitfall. This stone - the event onClick, which is used to tracking events, hits on external links.
A potential problem - using this event in the links you may lose some data about clicks.
Thanks to a recent study of asynchronous counter code Google Analytics, studying the instructions and manuals, I found a function to track events that I missed.
I am ashamed to admit - by the history of changes, events have been introduced long ago. But it's better to know about it late than never
Google Analytics by default sends the page's title in the performance of the counter code.
If you have the page title (the contents of the tag <title> </ title>) is too big, Google Analytics will not be able to count correctly shows of the page.
Recently asked me to help with Google Analytics'om. We have (as an example I will provide links to the example of my blog):
the site with counter Google Analytics (for example http://chenado.net)
tagged link to page on a subdomain, which is used in the context advertising system (for example - http://micro.chenado.net/files/test.php?utm_source=test)
And: the page on which visitors will go from the ad - makes a redirect to the main page of the site with the main advertising content. Problem: with a redirect tag Google Analytics disappear. Task: to help good people to count visits from the ad.