Mason Web Analytics

Google Web Light

What is Google Web Light? Google Web Light is a transcoding service which is intended to reduce the bandwidth required to load a website. In […]

Google Analytics Content Grouping

What is Content Grouping The Google Analytics Content Grouping feature allows you to organize your website content (pages) into content groups. You can then view […]

Website ‘Event’ Tracking Recommendations (Google Analytics)

Website owners typically want to track at least the following three user actions: Clicks on outbound links Clicks on email addresses Clicks on files to […]

Google Analytics: Goals/Conversions

Takeaway You should set-up goals in Google Analytics corresponding to the actual marketing goals you have for your website. Then you can track your website […]

Google Analytics: Cross-Domain Tracking

We usually don’t have to worry about cross-domain tracking; most of what we are concerned with is actually tracking across sub-domains. Tracking clients across sub-domains […]

Google Analytics: Referral Exclusion List

Don’t put gmu.edu in your referral exclusion list! Doing so will mean that you won’t see referral traffic from any gmu.edu websites. What is a […]

Google Analytics: The Tracking Cookie

Google Analytics uses a browser cookie as an identification mechanism. The GA cookie is used to uniquely identify the client across multiple pagesviews and visits. […]

Web Analytics Introduction Workshop Presentation

The Digital Communications team within the office of Communications and Marketing offers a series of workshops to the university community on various web-development topics. Web […]

Campaign Tagging Recommendations (Google Analytics)

Need to generate some campaign-tagged URLs?Please try the Mason Campaign URL Builder Application. The post below covers why you might want to use campaign-tagging, and […]

Why do Unusual Hostnames Show-Up in Your GA reports?

Occasionally, you may see traffic traffic data from unusual/unrecognized hostnames showing-up in your GA reports. As an example, here are some of the top hostnames […]