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Apr 10th 10
Custom Variables in Google Analytics
The new “_setCustomVar” method is a major upgrade of “_setVar” method that allowed advanced visitor segmentation. Now with this improved method we are not longer bound to “Visitors” rather we are now able to segment our analytics data based on “visitors”, “sessions” and “pages.”
The major difference between “_setVar” and “_setCustomVar” can be understood...
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Apr 1st 10
How to install Asynchronous Tracking in Google Analytics
First Time Installation of Asynchronous Tracking:
Following are steps if you are installing Google Analytics Code on your site for first time and you want to use Asynchronous Tracking.
Insert the asynchronous snippet at the bottom of the <head> section of your pages, after any other scripts your page or template might use.
According to Google the optimal location for the asynchronous snippet...
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Mar 25th 10
What is Google Analytics – Asynchronous Tracking
Quite recently Google has upgraded its Web Analytics Tracking Code, and the new version is called Asynchronous Tracking. This code is different from the previous GA code, below is an introduction.
Asynchronous Tracking in Google Analytics:
Asynchronous tracking is an improved way to track website visitors with Google Analytics. Asynchronous tracking optimizes how browsers load ga.js so its impact...
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Mar 10th 10
Google Certified Analytics Professional
I am happy to share with my friends and readers that I have just passed my Google Analytics Certification exam, so I am pretty much excited. It was not very tough but the at the same time not so easy. The questions were MCQs with focus on concepts. I will advise reading the Google Analytics Course and reading the various questions and problems in Help Center before attemting the exam. The exam had...
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Dec 16th 09
How to exclude specific country or region from Google Analytics
Here are the quick and easy steps to implement, if you want a report of website traffic, excluding a specific country or territory.
However,it should be noted that, it is among the best practices to create new test profiles when you are testing our filters or other advanced analytics setups. The reason is that it is not unusual that some of your experiments might turn out to be wrong or do not meet...
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