Google Analytics and DNS change
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Our new alumni application is going be tested at domain uva.imodules.com . We are going to collect traffic data with a Google analytics account number UA-884652-XX. So going to uva.imodules.com/myPage.html would send its data to Google Analytics with that account number. Then when it is ready for production we are going to just change the domain name of the application and switch the DNS over to dardencommunity.darden.virginia.edu . So going to dardencommunity.darden.virginia.edu /myPage.html would send its data to Google Analtics with that SAME account number. Aside from having the testing domain data in the same profile are there any other issues/problems we may run into?
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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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