Expert Google Analytics: store with multiple languages and multiple sub-domians

[ReneReinholdt]

I hope there's some hardcore Analytics shark out there, with a quick reply

I am setting up a store with multiple languages for a client and need to be able to track multiple sub-domains as a multiple languages in analytics.

Example:

dk.somedomain.com -> Danish language
www.somedomain.com -> English language
no.somedomain.com -> Norweigen language
.. and so on

Now what the client would like is to have one single entity with multiple profiles in analytics, like this:

somedomain.com
-> www.somedomain.com
-> dk.somedomain.com
-> no.somedomain.com
ex..

So if the client want's to see stats for the English language then he just vlivks the www profile and in case of danish he clicks the dk profile and so on.
 problem here is I can't find an analytics help that addresses this specific issue. I have found this but that doesn't seem to cover it:.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[mikecp]

René,

Here's the way I would approach it.

Install one GA snippet on the site that starts like this:

var _gaq = _gaq || [];

_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-X']);

_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'somedomain.com']);

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

Your main profile will capture ALL traffic. (optionally, you may want to pass the full hostname into the content reports. Otherwise "/" could mean "dk.somedomain.com/", "somedomain.com/", or any other root page. See Robbin Steif's answer here for instructions: https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/H3lVpHp8FnU)

Then you'll want to create additional profiles for each subdomain. The easiest way is to filter by hostname. I've attached an image of what this should look like. The forward slashes before the periods are important since this is a regular expression.

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