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Google Analytics: Find your Social Media Activity, a Tour

seangw — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:06:27 +0000

Google Analytics does a lot for us, and it does so much that we can’t always find some of the cooler functionality. I recently discovered some VERY useful information regarding social media linking in Google Analytics. Google Analytics will let you review the social media discussions and events (+1, Like, Bookmaarks, etc) and do the [...]

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Google Analytics: Get Your Profile ID

seangw — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:39:17 +0000

I was setting up a WordPress plugin, and it was asking me for my Google Analytics Profile ID. This shouldn’t be hard. Well, it is. Your GA Profile ID is NOT your “UA-xxxxxx-xx” number. Actually it is a 9 digit number unique to your site profile. To get it you need to: Log into Google [...]

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Google Analytics: Real Time analytics Support

seangw — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:32:04 +0000

As of this morning, Google Analytics has been updated to provide FREE real time analytics. This is the biggest thing that has happened to Google Analytics since it was released. To access the new feature, you must be using the “New Version”: Click “New Version” in the top right corner (if it says “Old Version” [...]

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Google Analytics Session Definition Changed

seangw — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:22:19 +0000

This got past me last month, and wanted to make sure all my “loyal” (hah, no offense but most of you are from India just looking for a fix to something) readers saw this. As of August 11, 2011 Google changed the way Sessions are defined. The old model ended a session when one of [...]

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Speed Up Google Analytics: Use Async

seangw — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:41:52 +0000

Saw a great post at High Performance Web Sites blog, Google Analytics goes async. The author is Steve Souders, who works at Google on web performance. So this is from the horses mouth. Think about it, why would you care when the Google Analytics code is loaded? All it does is capture data, as long [...]

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How To: Track File Downloads with Google Analytics

seangw — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:19:22 +0000

Google Analytics is what most people use nowadays for web traffic reports. It is flexible, powerful and simple. The problem with Google Analytics is that it doesn’t analyze web traffic reports, but generates data in real time. In most cases, this isn’t a problem. In fact, it is big feature. The problem is what about [...]

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