Questions tagged [analytics]
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What is the difference between google tag manager and google analytics? [closed]
I am reading about web analytic and came across GTM and GA.
It seems that GA is a service provided by Google which generates reports and statistics on website traffic. As per my limited understanding ...
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Best place to insert the Google Analytics code [duplicate]
Where’s the best place to insert the Google Analytics code in WordPress, header or footer? I prefer footer, because I wanted my site to load faster by reducing the number of scripts in the header, but ...
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What is the default username and password for Grafana login page?
what is default username and password for Grafana for http://localhost:3000/login page ? attaching a home page screenshot also.
I want to watch mySql database for through it.
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How do I track file downloads
I have a website that plays mp3s in a flash player. If a user clicks 'play' the flash player automatically downloads an mp3 and starts playing it.
Is there an easy way to track how many times a ...
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Simple NGINX log file analyzer [closed]
I'm looking for a simple tool to analyze my NGINX logs on my macbook.
I want to be able to get some basic stats including bot access and also be able to sort/filter the logs to find out what happened ...
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what are the values in _ga cookie?
I am using universal analytics. universal analytics creates first party cookie _ga
_ga=1.2.286403989.1366364567;
286403989 is clientId
1366364567 is timestamp
what is 1 and 2 in _ga cookie?
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Track event in google analytics upon clicking form submit
I need to track an event in google analytics when someone fills out a form and clicks submit. The resulting page that comes up is a standard dashboard-type page, so in order to track the event on ...
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Tell bots apart from human visitors for stats?
I am looking to roll my own simple web stats script.
The only major obstacle on the road, as far as I can see, is telling human visitors apart from bots. I would like to have a solution for that ...
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XGBoost XGBClassifier Defaults in Python
I am attempting to use XGBoosts classifier to classify some binary data. When I do the simplest thing and just use the defaults (as follows)
clf = xgb.XGBClassifier()
metLearn=CalibratedClassifierCV(...
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Piwik Filter Graph by Custom Variable
In piwik, is it possible to filter the visitors graph based on a custom variable from the tracker? I want to show an evolution graph of all the visits with a 70 value in the first custom variable slot....
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Is there a Google Analytics-like solution to track REST calls to a web service? [closed]
Just wondering if there's any out of the box solution for this, I am not too familiar with the analytics api maybe I can write some simple js that updates analytics before going to my service etc. -- ...
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Recording user data for heatmap with JavaScript
I was wondering how sites such as crazyegg.com store user click data during a session. Obviously there is some underlying script which is storing each clicks data, but how is that data then populated ...
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Google Analytics Event-based Goal Funnels
I have what might be a unique GA requirement.
I need to track Goal conversions in a SPA based on certain event criteria.
Here's the requirement:
User initiates new order
User fills out all required ...
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How to use analytics for desktop applications? [closed]
Google Analytics is nice, but it is for websites.
If I have a console application how can I track its usage worldwide? Can i just download an transparent.gif file from the analytics service provider?
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Is there a faster alternative to Google Analytics? [closed]
I like to keep my websites extremely light and fast, but of course I need some kind of user tracking and analytics.
It seems like Google Analytics always takes significant enough processing time ...
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Flurry Analytics vs Google Analytics on the mobile platform [closed]
I am working on a mobile app on the Android platform (and going forward for the iPhone) and am evaluating the Flurry Analytics and Google Analytics platforms for the app. Both platforms have SDKs for ...
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Firebase: There was an unknown error while processing the request. Try again. [closed]
I'm just trying to creating new project in Firebase but getting this error every time.
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Analytics dispatcher and configuration management for custom usage
I am looking for a component that would act as an event dispatcher for Android Analytics or for a whole custom Analytics solution.
I found some pretty neat code from the recently released Parse ...
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Is there any way to track whether an email has been opened?
I'm beginning to work on mailing-list software we use internally (EDIT: though we send emails externally as well, so we can't enforce policy on mail clients). Is there any way to track whether, when ...
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How to get rid of Google's dynamite measurement in APK?
Since a long while now (a year or more), I see app crashes reported in Play Console (production and prelaunch reports) and some error message when debugging about dynamite measurement from Google's ...
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How to read events from Google Analytics API?
How do I read custom events from the Google Analytics API (e.g. with the help of gapi.class.php)?
If I have three events (myEvent1, myEvent2 and myEvent3) and they all belong to eventCategory ...
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How to decode google gclids
Now, I realise the initial response to this is likely to be "you can't" or "use analytics", but I'll continue in the hope that someone has more insight than that.
Google adwords with "autotagging" ...
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Does Flurry Analytics for iOS/Android/Blackberry work when offline?
Flurry Analytics tracks analytics for mobile devices, similar to Google Analytics.
However, we cannot find technical information regarding this question:
Does Flurry tracks analytics when users are ...
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React + Router + Google Tag Manager
I've been spending a bit of time developing an MVP at quickcypher.com. I wanted to start putting in some analytics, and it worked great for just tracking total visits, but things went south when I ...
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Keyword analysis in PHP
For a web application I'm building I need to analyze a website, retrieve and rank it's most important keywords and display those.
Getting all words, their density and displaying those is relatively ...
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View full device breakdown in Firebase
On the Firebase Analytics Dashboard they display summary data for device and OS breakdown but it does not show the complete breakdown (in my case meaning I can't view the breakdown for 44.7% of my ...
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Google Analytics API and .Net
Google announced the Analytics Data Export API some days ago, thereby making it much easier to get analytics data for a site. The API debuted with Java and Javascript clients, but no direct .Net ...
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Tracking email opens in Google Analytics
We have tracking in our emails to track clicks back to our site through Google Analytics. But is there a way to track opens? I would imagine I have to add a google tracking image to the email ...
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Apple iTunes Connect Analytics: attribution provider and campaign id value passing to the app delegate
The new iTunes connect has analytics features now. You can specify the provider (pid) id and campaign id (cid) in the url. e.g.
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/candy-crush-saga/id553834731?mt=8&...
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When is Google Analytics not good enough? [closed]
I'm trying to determine why an enterprise wouldn't want to use Google Analytics.
Here are the main reasons I've seen mentioned:
Inability to track clients that have Javascript disabled.
Lack of ...
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Most efficient way to display a 1x1 GIF (tracking pixel, web beacon)
I'm building a basic analytics service, based in theory off of how Google Analytics works, but instead of requesting an actual image, I'm routing the image request to a script that accepts the data ...
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How to track user time on site
I'm looking to track users average time on a website (in the same way that Google analytics does) for internal administration.
What's the easiest way to do this?
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Open source alternative to Tableau? [closed]
I am looking for an interactive exploratory tool to embed in a commercial application.
I am looking for a commercial-friendly licensed open source alternative to the wonderful Tableau system
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How does Litmus track their email analytics?
So, 'Litmus', a web app for testing emails and webpages across browsers and email clients, has a proprietary method that they claim is able to track not just opens, clicks, browsers, etc (standard ...
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How to export Firebase analytics data
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to export all the Firebase Analytics data to an excel spreadsheet, similar to how you can do it with Google Analytics. From what I can find the only way to go ...
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How to track UTM tags in App Store URLs
I'm working on implementing my own analytics system. One part of it consists of tracking where users originated from. I use UTM tags for this. Reading UTM tags from the query parameters is quite easy ...
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What does "?ref=ts" mean in a Facebook application URL?
When Facebook drives traffic to an application, it often append &ref=whatever to the query string. This is useful for figuring out which integration points are working or not. I've figured out ...
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Which Flurry library should I use for universal iPhone/iPad apps?
Flurry has a separate analytics SDK for iPad apps vs iPhone apps. If I'm building a universal app to run on the iPhone 4.0+ and iPad 3.2+ (iPad native, not compatibility mode), does anyone know which ...
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What are the most important statistics to look at when deploying a Node.js web-application?
First - a little bit about my background: I have been programming for some time (10 years at this point) and am fairly competent when it comes to coding ideas up. I started working on web-application ...
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View Event parameters from events older than 30 minutes in Google Analytics (2021)
I am trying to track links users click on my site.
I am able to see the links they are clicking on by going to Engagement -> Events -> Click -> link_url(Under parameter name), however I can ...
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Firebase analytics - how to see all the users properties in an event detail view
An event detail shows how many users triggered that event and how many times.
Is there a way to also see a list of all the users who triggered it and see each user's properties?
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Mach-O error on Flurry integration Xcode
I'm attempting to integrate the Flurry SDK into my iOS app for the first time. I added the libraries and code to AppDelegate.m as explained in their instructions. When I compile I get the following ...
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Race condition and using Google Analytics Asynchronous (_gaq) synchronously
I have a website which is using Google Analytics newer asynchronous tracking method (_gaq). The problem I've run into is that I want to institute some specific link tracking and am worried that I will ...
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What does PARTITION BY 1 mean?
For a pair of cursors where the total number of rows in the resultset is required immediately after the first FETCH, ( after some trial-and-error ) I came up with the query below
SELECT
col_a,
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Do Traffic Graphs for a GitHub Project include Pages traffic? [closed]
Do the traffic graphs for a given project include the traffic data for the associated Pages site?
I.e. does
https://github.com/blackberry/Alice/graphs/traffic
include traffic to
http://github....
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Getting client ID with gtag.js
Google released gtag.js a couple of months ago as the new way of tracking with Google Analytics, eventually replacing analytics.js as far as I understood. gtag.js is the default when setting up a new ...
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how to implement number of views of a particular page
So basically I want to implement the same functionality as StackOverflow's:
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So here is some background information:
I want to count only unique visits. The assumption that ...
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Google Analytics gtag.js ready callback
I try to update my Google Analytics implementation from analytics.js to the new gtag.js.
In the old implementation I am using the ready callback function.
ga(function() {
console.log('Google ...
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How to aggregate analytics from Google, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc [closed]
I have a video blog for which I would like to track certain statistics, including stats from Google Analytics, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
The problem is that the various stats are on different ...
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Change the loglevel of GoogleTagManager v5 on iOS
I've integrated GoogleTagManager v5 in an iOS project. It's working fine, but now I see these logmessages in the Xcode console:
2017-07-14 09:09:19.285 App[23194:15302685] GoogleTagManager info: ...
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