| 5 Great Google Analytics Tips |
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| Tuesday, 06 November 2007 | |
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At the last JoomlaSouthEast meeting, Brent from 3by400 showed me a great Google Analytics book called simply "Google Analytics Short Cut". Wow, does it pack a lot of useful information into a $10 PDF.
The book certainly isn't an introduction to GA. Its pretty technical at times and won't help beginners, but for people already familiar with GA its full of great information. I've reproduced some of the best tips here. 1) Put the GA Code in the Site FooterDo this for the simple reason that if the GA code is slow in loading, your site will still resolve. Lots of Joomla GA mambots place the code in the head - avoid this. 2) Double Counting Page Views
3) Tracking Clicks on Images and ButtonsYou can use GA to track how often people click on an image or button. Simply add urchinTracker() to the onClick event of that element. For example:
<img src="/image.jpg" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/image.jpg');" />
GA will then record a page view for image.jpg.
4) GA Filters Understands Regions
5) Get Around the Four Goal LimitIt is possible to track multiple conversion activities in a single goal. For example, both these pages might be conversion pages:
Note: Once you change data in GA it can't be changed back. Run all changes on a test profile first.
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Comments (9)
  written by Good Web Practices, November 06, 2007
Thank you for these tips! (2) is one I'll do straight away - thanks Steve.
 written by ulas, November 07, 2007
analitics and the other google services are becoming more intresting day by day.
i'm learning a new think everyday. your tips are one of them. Thanks for the tips  written by Anne Hennegar, November 09, 2007
Thanks for the pointer to the Short Cuts as it looks great. As a FYI, some public libraries have online subscriptions which include O'Reilly's Safari. My county does which is very nice. You may not get all the permissions/features of a corporate user, but it is still a great resource.
written by Good Web Practices, January 18, 2008
Another great tip is installing this javascript just above the analytics code, which automatically tracks downloads of pdfs/mp3s/etc on the webpage without needing to installing the on-click event for every link:
http://www.iqcontent.com/blog/2006/11/tracking-document-downloads-in-google-analytics Extremely useful on bigger sites! I installed it on a clients site today :-)  written by Max Burgstaller, February 07, 2008
I do not know, but you, and I will listen to you.
 written by Good Web Practices, February 11, 2008
I think tracking downloads in Google Analytics is really important. So important in fact that I posted a JavaScript which makes tracking downloads with the tracking code automatic. I hope this will be really useful for sites where tracking downloads and clicks to external links is important:
http://www.goodwebpractices.co...cally.html written by Max Burgstaller, February 12, 2008
Many thanks for the reply. I am convinced that the tracking downloads important. At the time, I hope that my side occasionally by Alledia or Alledia specialists will be reviewed and I appropriate measures for a better search on the site beltec.aero can take. The topic of search engines is for me to be very difficult to understand. (The age ..)
Cordial greetings Maxburg written by Space Zone, July 20, 2008
"GA Goals allow regular expressions "
that's new to hear it will be useful really cause some affiliate links I got and need to track them Write comment
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As a follow-up from my last post which pointed about 
If our homepage was alledia.com/index.html, GA would count two page views: alledia.com and alledia.com/index.html. Avoid this by setting index.html as your default page inside Profile Settings >> Main Website Profile Information.
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