Google Analytics - multiple counters
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Hey there Mozzers!
One of our customers wants to seperate one Google Analytics account into multiple accounts. The website is divided in three parts:
- Main: www.website.nl
- Sub1: www.website.nl/sub1
- Sub2: http://www.website.nl/sub2
And they would like 4 different reports under one account.
- R1: Total count
- R2: Website.nl (without Sub 1 & Sub2)
- R3: Sub1
- R4: Sub2
I know multiple counters will get in conflict with each other, so I have to implement some filters. E.g: We can configure a filter for R3 on "astmakids" in URL.
My question is: is there a safe way to implement multiple Analytics filters on one website? And how will R3 see visitors that come from the root domain astmafonds.nl? Are they referrals?
Thanks a lot in advance!!
Partouter
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I had to set up an additional profile to show the hostnames, as given here. Is there a filter on this profile to display the hostnames? If so, delete it.
You're right, you definitely don't want multiple counters.
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"Are you saying GA is displaying the entire URL when you view reports?"
Exactly. For some reason, Google shows the full URL for this subdomain. I don't want to work with multiple counters on one website, because multiple counters can obstruct each other.
Do you have experience with accounts that contain both filters and subdomains?
Thanks John!
Partouter
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Are you saying GA is displaying the entire URL when you view reports? It shouldn't be. I set up an additional profile for myself to show the full URL names for all my subdomains in the page URLs. If that's what you're looking for, I can help you with that.
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Dear John,
Sorry for opening this question again. We now encounter another problem:
Sub4: http://subdomain.website.nl/
Is it possible subdomain to measure this subdomain as well, without GA displaying the entire URL? (E.g. "http://subdomain.website.nl/page" instead of "/page")\
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Partouter
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The new interface is cleaner and easier to use. You can switch back and forth between the new and old interface at will with a link in the header, so I'd recommend trying it out on your terms before they force everyone to switch over! It's not that much different.
You can set up those profiles and filters in the old interface pretty much the same way.
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Thanks a lot for your detailed answer, John!
I'm using the old Analytics UI, could that possibly be a problem?
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(The instruction below are in the new Google Analytics UI)
That shouldn't be a problem. You only need one Analytics snippet on your site to do this, the rest can be done with profiles and filters. You'll want to create new profiles in your web property to track these for each of your examples above. To filter for www.website.nl/sub1, create a profile and then a filter for it. You can do this by drilling into the profile, and under the Profiles tab, find the Filters subtab. Create a new filter. Choose "Custom filter" and "Include". Choose "Request URI" in Filter Field. For the Filter pattern, you'll put "/sub1". If you're doing anything fancier for request URI, beware that it takes a regular expression.
That should work for sub1, and you can repeat the above for sub2. For excluding those, you should be able to create a profile, and instead of include, choose to exclude, and create two filters on the profile, one for sub1, and one for sub2.
And yes, in the smaller profiles, when someone comes goes from a /sub1 page to a /sub2 page, it'll show up as a referral from sub1 in the sub2 profile.
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