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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 […]

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New Google Analytics Homepage

The Google Analytics interface has been redesigned to include a new homepage. More info on the new GA homepage from the Google Analytics Blog Mini-reports […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Google Analytics: Tracking ‘Outbound’ Links via a Roll-Up Property.

The Question CEHD wanted to see how much traffic they were sending from their website (cehd.gmu.edu) to the core website’s Request Information page. Possible Solutions […]

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Google Analytics: Identifying 404 Pages for Mason WordPress (Kuma Theme) Websites

Mason’s WordPress template will serve any arbitrary URL, even if such a page doesn’t exist on the website. While the resulting page will present you […]

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Google Analytics: Identifying 404 Pages for Mason Drupal Websites

Mason’s Drupal implementation will serve any arbitrary URL, even if such a page doesn’t exist on the website. While the resulting page will present you […]

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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 […]

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Spam Filter Segment – Craig Zaccaro

2 types: Spam bots that visit websites (spam crawlers) – send out http requests to websites with fake referral headers Spam bots that don’t visit […]

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Tracking Virtual Pageviews – Craig Zaccaro

The default tracking snippet runs on each new page load. This makes it difficult to track single page applications where the site loads new page […]