Help me become a master of Google Analytics - especially as it pertains to time spent in sections of a site, etc... [more inside]
posted on Sep 4, 2008 - 0 answers

Question about Google Analytics and CMS/PHP type auto-generated pages. [more inside]
posted on Sep 1, 2008 - 4 answers

Recent Graduate: Work towards 2nd Bachelors, Masters, or take a lower paying position I hope will lead to the job I want? [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 12 answers

How do I deal with internal redirects in Google Analytics? [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2008 - 2 answers

Google Analytics: my absolute unique visitor (AUV) trend is upwards, growing fast and in absolute terms is MUCH higher than the same period in March. But when I compare 2 weeks of April with 2 weeks of March I see a negative trend for April. [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2008 - 0 answers

Google Analytics: Can I track the different content sections of my site, even though the sections aren't part of the URL? [more inside]
posted on Feb 11, 2008 - 6 answers

Google Analytics Question: Over a five month period, it's telling me I've had about 300 visitors who have read my site between 9 and 100 times. I realize this is small potatoes in the World O' Blogs, but it seems entirely too high to me. Please explain how Google thinks 20 semi-loyal visitors (my estimate) is 300. Surely they are mostly bots?
posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 7 answers

I'm starting a new job and need to get up to speed on web analytics and SEO. [more inside]
posted on Jun 26, 2007 - 8 answers

I've had it with the endless stream of __utma/b/c/z cookies spewed forth by Google Analytics from every website on the planet. Is there a Firefox extension that will block them, perhaps based on the NAME being "__utm*"? I'm tempted to pay someone to create such an extension ... [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2007 - 19 answers

Why is there such a difference between Google's Analytics, awstats and webalizer? Google analytics says my site received just under 5000 visitors for the month of may, awstats says I received just under 28,000 and webalizer says I received 65,001 visitors. Which one is the most accurate? Which one do I point advertisers to?
posted on Jun 6, 2007 - 15 answers

Anyone know of any good open source packages for WAP / WML traffic analysis / analytics? [more inside]
posted on May 23, 2007 - 3 answers

How do you know what Googlers were searching for? [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2007 - 10 answers

Is there an analytics tool similar to Mint that will run on a Windows server? I'm specifically looking for a tool like the session tracker included with Mint. I thought maybe I could get that with Google Analytics, but if it is there, I can't find it.
posted on Jul 28, 2006 - 2 answers

What's the best way to estimate monthly unique visitors for a website when Google Analytics chokes on more than two weeks of data? [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2006 - 5 answers

I'm using Google Analytics (nee Urchin) to try and analyze my site's stats, but there is one thing I just can't figure out how to do (perhaps I can't do it at all): How do I view the stats filtered by subdirectory? [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2006 - 2 answers

How many browsers really have javascript disabled? I want to implement a stats program on a client's site that uses javascript to collect stats, but don't want to exclude a big chunk of people [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2005 - 12 answers

Seeking recommendations for http analytics tools in the vein of HTTP Analyzer and Charles. Firefox compatibility and the ability to view the page and the data at the same time are big plusses.
posted on Nov 12, 2005 - 4 answers

I want to know who is coming to my website, what their doing, where they are coming from, and how I might optimize my website and marketing dollar.
Can anyone recommend a reasonable software / service to perform web analytics on my website. WebSideStory looks awesome, but also looks like it might be out of my league, maybe not. What type of features should I be looking for, and what do I need to consider? Any positive experiences with your website?
posted on Nov 3, 2005 - 18 answers