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Google Analytics is a reporting platform

Google Analytics is a reporting platform that provides statistical info about applications. One can set goals and see if these goals were met after a period of time. One can also see:

  • demographics
  • users
  • content usage
  • ...

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Use Google analytics to alert on traffic spike source

I use Google Analytics today to notify me of big traffic spikes. In my case, a big traffic spike is typically due to a link from a prominent website. Google Analytics includes a new "Intelligence" feature to report on spikes. Unfortunately, today…
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How does 3G/Mobile phones get allocated an IP address? Does this mess with Google Analytics?

This question is in two parts. Q1. How does a mobile phone get an IP address over 3G? Like, would it get the same IP for a shortish period of time (Eg. 1 day, etc)? Because my phone is constantly going in and out of buildings and underground car…
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nginx connection reset

When first visiting my site after not visiting it for a few minutes, the connection is "reset" 100% of the time. I get this message when debug is turned on, along with a 400 bad request status message: client prematurely closed connection while…
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Blocking Google Analytics breaks some applications

We block Google Analytics (corporate policy). We have a few 3rd party Windows applications that ping Google Analytics when users sign-in, or when help is opened. Unfortunately since we are blocking Google Analytics these features don't…
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Stripping Google Cookies With Varnish

Im setting up varnish on my server and have been studying the VCL ( which I think is very neat ) and I have the following in the vcl_recv I am writing which I don't understand why it would be necessary. if (req.url ~…
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Using Google Analytics to track Usernames

We have a SharePoint Installation (MOSS, IIS 7.0, Windows Authentication, Windows 2008) and Google Analytics has been installed to track site usage. The site is an intranet site, and all users are authenticated before gaining access. Is there any…
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Possible to get exit URL in Google Analytics?

I have a site set up with Google Analytics (GA). I'm looking to find out what URL visitors are going to most frequently when leaving the site. I know how to get the exit URL in the site itself that is the last place they are, but is the external URL…
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Google Analytics real-time data into a 'top' like CLI

Does anyone know of a project or set of scripts that attempts to bring Google Analytics data to the command line? What I dream about is a "top" like application that lets me monitor Google Analytics real-time data without a web browser. Thanks!
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Google Analytics - Can I download the logs?

Can I download the raw logs of my Google Analytics data? I want to do some processing on the data.
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What is the correct way to move an rss feed? Is there a temporary workaround for google reader users?

I run a website that has published its RSS feed at a given location for years. However, I'm now forced to move the feed to another URL. Let's say the original URL was www.example.com/rss.xml and the new address is feeds.example.com/example. I see…
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How can I measure how many users are blocking Google Analytics?

Ad blocking is all the rage. Included in the blocking is analytics and thus Google Analytics. At some point I will consider switching to (or making) a first-party tracking system for Google Analytics because more and more users will block the normal…
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My site is suddenly getting slammed, not legitimate traffic

I run a site with about 700 registered users. On a typical day, there are 30-50 hits. In the last three days, the traffic has increased insanely fast (according to Google Analytics). I got 7,287 hits today. My number of new registered users has not…
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How can we open our firewall to allow Google Analytics?

We operate a firewall which blocks all internet access for users on our company network. However we would like our intranet to track users with Google Analytics. How can we open up our firewalls to only allow access to googleanalytics.com ? I have…
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Bad Request Due to "Bad" Cookie

I have a web site under a domain, where the main domain is using Google Analytics which sets a cookie named __utmva which is value is part binary. As far as I can tell passing this cookie to IIS returns Bad Request (400) - "The request is badly…
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Strange results found on Google Analytics

working of development of one site. i protected it with .htaccess file, so it is not accessible without knowing username and password. only few of us have access to it. but, using Google Analytics, i noticed that i had some visitors from brazil…
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