I've been tasked with picking up a project where the last developer just quit. One thing said developer was planning to do was add Flurry Analytics (Yahoo) to my client's website.  The site already has Bing and Google analytics. My immediate thought was to remove Bing and tell her how dumb that is (in a nice way) as I've always been happy with ga and having more than one seems redundant.  But I thought I'd ask. Does it ever make sense to have all three of these? Perhaps they help tie into ad campaigns in some way I'm unaware of.  Is it even worthwhile to have more than one, maybe for comparing data?
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Is it alright to use multiple analytics packages (Google, clicky, mixpanel, etc) at the same time on the same site?  Would it be more beneficial to just use one package?
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Was working on a different question to ask on here, and realized I might be completely wrong when I realized the historical data on Yahoo and Google are completely different. Therefore I have no idea which is true.    And to confirm I understood Google right I went into their actual Historical price lookup:    Does anyone know which is correct? Are they using two different calculations?
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An interesting addition to the data dump would be the daily/hourly/whatever view counts for the websites. This could be used to see what happened to SO when proposal X came out, what time of day is the most active (if it was hourly), what day of the week is the most active, activity to question ratio, and many other things.   Before you say "What about Users.Views and Posts.ViewCount?", they aren't usable since they only list the total, not the breakdown of when it happened. The only statistics you could draw are monthly, which is useless.  If your worried about size, then your exaggerating what I'm asking. Daily is tiny, only 7 rows for an entire week. Hourly is a bit bigger, 168 rows per week. Considering other tables are millions of rows long, this won't affect size at all considering the growth.
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Java applets are soon to be killed off forever.  I understand why we shouldn't make new ones.  But what will happen to old ones?  There are still Java applets that people may use, and there's no guarantee that anyone will be willing or able to port them to JavaScript.  For example,  has a lot of Java applets that explain and visualize certain digital audio concepts.  Another course I'm taking uses a lot of Java applets to visualize computational geometry ideas.  When Firefox drops NPAPI support, that's it, we've cut off this great reference material to all but those willing to jump through arcane technological hoops.  The following possible solutions don't always fit the bill:   Just use FireFox   Port it or rewrite it  May not be open source, or it may not be practical to do so (e.g. lack of domain knowledge). Ask the original author to do it  They may have stopped supporting it years ago.  Doesn't make it any less effective at, say, tracing out the steps for Delaunay triangulations. Find an alternative  If none exist, we're back to the second option.  If the only ones that do exist aren't browser-based, all bets are off for convenience (which is the whole point of browser apps).   Is there currently (or will there be within a year) a convenient, cross-platform way to run existing Java applets once all the major Web browsers drop NPAPI support?  Note that:   Actually so in-browser isn't critical, but it should still be cross-platform.  Ideally I wouldn't have to download extra software (after all, I already do have a JVM installed). No, I'm not suggesting we re-open the security holes that Chrome and Firefox are trying to close. If there are alternative Web browsers out there designed specifically for legacy Java applet support (or at least with no plans to drop existing NPAPI support), I would be okay with that.
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I was looking at the resume in  question, and I noticed the skills bar chart. I've seen this on several designers' resumes and was wondering if it is a new fad, if it's something that I should consider adding to my resume/website, etc.    Wouldn't this get you less clients if you forget or didn't have the room to add every single piece of software that you know and your skill level of said software? I can understand adding fundamental software like Photoshop and Illustrator, but what about all the little programs that I don't use very often, but I still know how to use? If I were to list all those, the resume would be like 3 pages long.  Is this a useful graphic to add?
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After a month of ads with Google Ads Shopping campaigns and continuously identifying, day after day, a significant discrepancy of clicks on Google Ads and Sessions in Google Analytics (as well as another analytics tool that brings numbers very close to analytics's numbers), I contacted Google Support. For more than 3 weeks, after numerous interactions and different/contradictory suggestions/explanations/solutions, it finally seems that my case has taken a direction towards the solution, but the result that has been passed to me, despite having convinced me that it is the which may actually be the cause of the problem, was not satisfactory to me. I was really disappointed with the procedure Google Support provided me, and would like more explanations and information from the community.  What I got last through Google's support was this:     "There are two methods for logging out of a session: a session can be   opened on the same day or on several days, weeks or months. Expiration   by time: After 30 minutes of inactivity At midnight Campaign Change:   If a user enters through a campaign, he leaves and then comes back   through another campaign. Why is there a discrepancy between clicks   and sessions? I have separated this  from the help center that   explains specifically what we said in connection If you've noticed one   of the following discrepancies between clicks and sessions, use the    to identify and resolve issues.   As well as reporting the discrepancy between clicks and sessions up to   20% is considerable. "   Among the Google help links passed by the support, it has not been clear to me whether a 20% less discrepancy in the number of sessions in relation to clicks is normal or if only when the session number is higher (the phrase "A single user can open multiple sessions" suggests that it is only normal when the number of sessions is higher).  But if it's really normal that the number of sessions is 20% less than the number of clicks, I'm led to think of the possibilities:  1 - Analytics fails as a tool to count 100% the number of sessions (accessed by the same person or by different people). Once when a click occurs, the user is taken to the site and must count as a session. If it is normal for analytics to compute 20% fewer sessions than clicks, soon the analytics fail to compute all the sessions.  2 - Google uses this explanation to be able to charge up to 20% more clicks than clicks that actually occurred from its users.  I do not like to believe in either hypothesis, first to rely on Google Analytics as a tool to identify sessions and because their numbers are very similar to that of a third analysis tool used (built by my ecommerce platform), and also for not believing that a company like Google would lend itself to deliberately charging 20% ​​more clicks from its customers. So I turn to the community so maybe someone will bring me a third alternative that I have not been able to identify and/or a totally different explanation from the one I received from the support (as they have done so many times over the course of those weeks).
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We're seeing Google Analytics report a huge amount of hits and large drop rate on some of our pages, but investigating this further reveals more questions than answers.  For instance, one page is reported to have over 1000 hits this month, but in our database (Magento) we only see 6 hits.  When I look into the Apache access log, I do see many GETs for this URL, but they all have a referrer like this:  http://dp.g.doubleclick.net/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=dp-oversee17_3ph_xml&amp;channel=001071&amp;hl=en&amp;adtest=off&amp;max_radlink_len=20&amp;r=m&amp;fexp=21404&amp;domain_name=hcartoon.com&amp;optimize_terms=off&amp;terms=Cartoon%2C%20Flash%20Animation%2C%20Caricature%2C%20Cartoon%20Picture%2C%20Free%20Animated%20Ecards%2C%20Cartoon%20Animation%2C%20Funny%20Posters%2C%20Cartoon%20Clip%20Art%2C%20Cartoonist%2C%20Toons%2C%20Cartoonist%2C%20Toons%2C%20Funny%20Picture%2C%20Cartoon%20Posters%2C%20Caricatures%2C%20Cartoonists%2C%20Toon%2C%20Business%20Cartoons&amp;drid=as-drid-  And it goes on...  I'm assuming it is a feeble attempt to DDoS, but that's not the question, I'll save that for a different SE.  Could this be skewing our Google Analytics numbers?  If so, how can we sanitize Google Analytics so that these types of GETs aren't counted?  EDIT: We do not use AdWords.  We do have an AdWords account set up but have never utilized it.  I traced the logged IP addresses to various places outside the U.S. like  Sri Lanka, Taiwan, ...ad nauseam.  EDIT 2: All of the GET requests seem to have a ?gclid= in the URL.  I'm beginning to wonder if there's some black-hat SEO aimed at making us think our metrics are bad so we'll hire one of them.  We do get SEO spam all the time...  Regardless, still looking for a way to filter past Google Analytics data.
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Some of the sites seem to have a much better performance than others. In particular, during Stack Overflow's first round, I found that the stats always seemed quite low, with no traffic, and no seeming way to get out of the situation.  How can one best get through the launched phase, achieving the best performance?
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I've recently found some websites which provide a specific number of visits by paying. I'm curious if this is a (very) bad practice for search engines (like Google).
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I have an online shop with a blog structured this way:   Shop: example.com Blog: example.com/blog   Both index have the same Google Analytic Code (UA). In the blog I write articles about some products with a link to the product page.  Now the problem is, I want to see stat on visits whose referral links have this pattern example.com/blog/*.
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So I am building my website up, so far so good, only 2 categories and about 40 articles. Each category is different and several of the articles in each category are reviews.  My question is this...  I have 500 words of unique content on each review, and then I have around 300+ words of the exact same content across each review (different category different similar content)  The 300 words of similar content is things like..     Product contains eggs.      product contains milk      product doesn't have support      product company isn't active on social media.      product doesn't have email support.   Things like this, depending on the product and depending on how deep I dive into the reviews they range from 300+ words.  Is it okay to have these reviews with this point back to my category landing page? I mean they're ranking for separate products not the main keyword as my category landing page. Should I rework my strategy and just take out that similar content?
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I am working on a Drupal mulsite project (using single database) and using Google Analytics module for this.  I have follow the below steps for GA configuration:   Created a domain name example1.com and a sub-domain name example2.com. Create an account on GA and create property for both of this domain name in GA account. Both property give me two different Tracking ID (same as below screenshot).      Into the configuration setting of GA from drupal admin section I have added Web Property ID of example1.com and into domain setting added both the domain name example1.com and example2.com into the section of List of top-level domains (a same as attached screenshot).      Now this configuration is only working for emample1.com, not for example2.com. So can anyone please tell me how can I use Web Property ID of domain exmaple2.php to get the result?
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The new GWT shows sitemaps links divided into new categories. Two that confuse me:  1. Discovered- currently not indexed 2. Crawled - currently not indexed  What are the possible reasons for this, and are there any site wide implications? Is this a sign from Google I should consider removing these?
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Does Google consider bounce rate or something similar in ranking sites?  Background: here at Stack Exchange we noticed that the latest Google algorithm changes resulted in about a 20% dip in traffic to  (and a much smaller dip in traffic to ). Stack Overflow traffic was not affected.  There was an  which hypothesized that bounce rate might be a ranking signal in Google's latest Panda update.  According to Google Analytics, these are our bounce rates over the last month:  Site           Bounce Rate Avg Time on Site -------------  ----------- ---------------- SuperUser      84.67%      01:16 ServerFault    83.76%      00:53 Stack Overflow 63.63%      04:12   Now, technically, Google has no way to know the bounce rate. If you go to Google, search for something, and click on the first result, Google can't tell the difference between:   a user who turns off their computer a user who goes to a completely different web site a user who spends hours clicking around on the website they landed on   What Google does know is how long it takes the user to come back to Google and do another search. According to the book  (page 47), Google distinguishes between what they call "short clicks" and "long clicks":   A short click is a search where the user quickly comes back to Google and does another search. Google interprets this as a signal that the first search results were unsatisfactory. A long click is a search where the user doesn't search again for a long time.   The book says that Google uses this information internally, to judge the quality of their own algorithms. It also said that short click data in which someone retypes a slight variation of the search is used to fuel the "Did you mean...?" spell checking algorithm.  So, my hypothesis is that Google has recently decided to use long click rates as a signal of a high quality site. Does anyone have any evidence of this? Have you seen any high-bounce-rate sites which lost traffic (or vice-versa)?
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I'm following :   But in my real code, I've used google tag manager to manage google analytics. So I have just one script in the head of my website which belongs to gtm:  (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&amp;l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-P8F58CT');  ga('create', 'UA-124402662-1', 'auto'); // Uncaught ReferenceError: ga is not defined   As you can see, I've added ga('create', 'UA-124402662-1', 'auto') right after that google tag manager (the same as the tutorial I've linked in the first line of my question). And I have a ga('send', 'pageview', newURL); code which will be executed when the page changes using ajax.  The problem is it throws: (as I've commented in code above)     Uncaught ReferenceError: ga is not defined   How can I fix it? Someone told me no need to add ga('create', 'UA-124402662-1', 'auto'); at all, and gtm will handle it all. But in my tests:   When I open my website (homepage), and run ga('send', 'pageview', "/adv"); in the console, nothing changes in google analytics and it still points to the homepage. When I open my website (homepage), and run ga('create', 'UA-124402662-1', 'auto'); and then run ga('send', 'pageview', "/adv");, then the google analytics will be changed to the /adv (not homepage anymore). So I believe ga('create', 'UA-124402662-1', 'auto'); is needed. But why it is undefined?
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I have recently seen your official application on Google Play. And it is really nice and useful. Do you plan application for Windows Phone(7.8, 8) ?  Update:  Also, after reading most of your comments and answers, we can see that the  main reason in your opinion is "smaller audience" of Windows Phone. But, in my opinion:  "Let's take it from a different point of view. The users of Stack Exchange are generally developers or IT specs and so on. And the users of this app on mobile platforms will be developers mostly. And in my opinion the market share stats in the smartphone market wouldn't be same if we filter the result where job is programmer. I hope, I can explain what I mean."
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Am wondering if somewhere there is a list of industry "minimums" for browser support. My company release two "portals" over the past 6 months and did very little to support IE8 users, who at this time, according to my G Analytics makes up about 14% of all IE visitors. Amazingly enough IE7 is 25%...  Figured support for IE7 was out the window already, but figured 14% was significant enough to warrant some support.  Any arguments to support my side of wanting to support IE8?  Any arguments to NOT support IE8?