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Regular Expression to Validate Google Analytics Property IDs

^UA-\d{7,9}-\d{1,2}$

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Tracking Outbound Links in Google Tag Manager using Google Analytics Events

Step 1: Enable Required Built-In Variables Enable the built-in variables “Click URL” and “Click Text” (if not already enabled). GTM will need access to these […]

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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 […]

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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: 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. […]

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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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Analytics Update – June 2017

New Websites in Roll-Up Lots of University Life sites added to roll-up. Google Tag Manager I have created a template container for use on Mason […]

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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 […]