Analytics Tracking in China

[Ryan_Henry]

I am setting up a Chinese domain and I was wondering if anyone has experience with using Google Analytics for tracking in the country and if it really works or if Baidu is the better solution for the website.  The website will be hosted in the US so I don't know if that makes any difference with getting around "The Great Firewall".

I would prefer to us GA if possible because I am extremely familiar with the platform but I am more concerned with getting accurate tracking data for the site.

Thank you in advance and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Brooke

[DmitriiK]

The there shouldn't be any problems. What you can do is see how hits by your China team are being registered in Real Time section in GA (if they are being registered at all). Then see if your website is indexed in Baidu and see how visits from Baidu are being registered. If it's just simply another organic search channel (or referral), the there shouldn't be any worries.

Basically, I would setup GA and see how it works, if data looks realistic. It's free, right?

[Ryan_Henry]

The teams in China have been able to see the website and use it without any problem so from everything I can tell the site is visible in the country.

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

I haven't worked with chinese websites, no. But since you're saying that website will be hosted in US, there shouldn't be any problems at all. The question really is not if GA will be accurate or not, but is that website gonna be accessible by users from china. The idea is that GA will track ANY hits to website, so as long as users can get to website, all data will be recorded.