Google Analytics to sub domains

[mayanksaxena]

Hi,

I have a site xyz.com and two separate sites on sub domains xyz.com/abc and xyz.com/def. What's the best way to go about with GA such that I can get all the data in the same place.

Should I use the GA code for xyz.com on sub domains as well? Or should I create separate profiles?

[mayanksaxena]

Firstly, I would like to correct a mistake I did when posting the questions. The two sites are hosted as subdirectories and not sub domains.

Here's how I solved the issue.:

1. Created two new views for each subdirectory abc and def. Added filters to get specific data for each site.

2. So, now I had three views - The Master View that contains all the data. ABC view - that contains data only for xyz.com/abc and DEF view that contains data only for xyz.com/def. Problem solved.

There were some good points, like defining internal traffic to GA, for subdomains. I believe, it wasn't necessary for subdirectory set up.

I realized that I could have created another view just to have data fro XYZ.com; filter data from both sub-directories.

[LynnPatchett]

HI Mayank,

You can do either depending on how you want to view the data. There was a good blog post a few months back on the way to approach various setups, check it out here. Separate account profiles is the easiest way to set it up, but of course the data will all be separated also. If you decide to use the same GA code for all the subdomains then you will likely want to do some tweaking to ignore self referrals and filter the data to show the subdomain string in your content reports. If you set up filters I would suggest to do it using views to not alter your original data - you can check out a rundown on how that can be setup here.