Could also create two Advanced Segments, one showing traffic only from Safari, the other showing all traffic except from Safari, then compare the metrics to see how the Safari traffic differs from that which is not Safari (assuming it does).
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Posts made by Ben_Alvord
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RE: Safari Has Top Browser in Google Analytics?
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RE: How to set up 301 redirect for URL with question mark
You might want to try escaping the question mark, so:
/?specifications
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RE: How do I manually add transactions to Google Analytics
If you're getting dropped transactions for some reason, I would definitely recommend fixing that problem, as opposed to adding transactions manually, but if that's not possible for some reason, you could:
- Create a static HTML page that includes your Google Analytics tracking code plus the ecommerce tracking code, manually filled in with the data of the transaction.
- Post the HTML page up on your domain. Let's say the URL would be http://www.yourdomain.com/testpage.html
- Visit the URL (one time) with Google campaign variables appended to the URL to set the source/medium of the transaction to what it actually was. So for an organic Google search, the URL would look like - http://www.yourdomain.com/testpage.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=somekeyword&utm_campaign=manual-transaction
That example URL in #3 would set the transaction to having come from an Organic google search.
Still though, best bet is to fix whatever problem is causing the transactions to be dropped, as this would be a pain in the ass to do for a ton of transactions.
Ben
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RE: Google Analytics and DNS change
No, you should be fine. By default, Google Analytics will pull in traffic data from whichever domains you place the tracking code on.
To avoid having test data in your profile though, you may want to add a filter to the profile that excludes traffic generated on the test domain.
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RE: Google Analytics Tracking Pixels for Third-Party sites???
If the partner site would allow you to add code to their thank you page, you could have them just add your existing Google Analytics tracking code to that page and then page views of thankyou.html would start showing up in your Google Analytics.
The problem with that though is that it will show ALL page views of thankyou.html, not just the page views that originate from referrals from your domain. So this would only work if you are sending traffic to a page on the partner's site that is exclusive to your domain.
You could actually set up a custom report in GA to show only page views of thankyou.html where the referrer is your domain, but you'd have a bunch of additional page views mixed in with your data that have nothing to do with your site.