Comments on: Google Analytics Tutorial Part 2

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:14:46 +0000

Thanks for this. I had heard about Google Analytics before but had never used it – but after reading this I had to. I was worried it would all be too confusing but it isn’t too bad, thanks to all your guidance. Keep up the good work!

By: Andy Kuiper

Andy Kuiper — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:29:32 +0000

A nice, well laid out article on tracking with GA – however since this article was first published, GA has introduced new versions of it’s code, so be sure to check on which version you have installed prior to making changes.

*Would love to see you write a new “latest edition” article dealing with the new GA code: thanks so much Patrick

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By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:56:54 +0000

Very nice article, thank you! I enjoyed it months ago when you just published it, and I enjoyed it now again. I would really be happy if you found time and wrote an article about advanced segments.

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By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:31:25 +0000

Patrick,

Your tutorial is the best online resource about GA, including the help section of GA itself. Thank you so much for keeping it updated.

I’d like to know whether GA can be used on intranet portals, and whether there are any constrains.

Thanks in advance!

By: svox

svox — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:15:35 +0000

Hi,
You blog has absolutley great tips, thanks for the work.
Getting down to the question – I tried to find out a geographical overlay of visitors coming from the particular reffering site but have not found such a filter. So it’s like having a new source of descent traffic I am couruios what sort of countries it supplies the visitors from. Would appreciate if you’ let me know if it’s feasible to get.

By: Malcolm Sequeira

Malcolm Sequeira — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:54:01 +0000

In response to LGR and Motorcycle Guy:

You can use something like this to traverse the current page and add a tracking function to the onClick event of your links. I have a different version of this running on my site.

http://www.mortenbock.dk/google-analytics-outgoing-links-50.htm

By: Max Cordy

Max Cordy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:28:46 +0000

LGR ASKED: Is there anyway to attach the onclick event handler on a link I want to track without editing the html, perhaps at the bottom of the page? Just wondering if it is possible to separate the HTML from the javascript so it is easier to maintain.

ANSWER: The easiest way to do this is through DOM scripting. You can easily traverse the DOM and add an onClick event to each link. It would take about 3 lines of Javascript that would run when the page finishes loading.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:40:08 +0000

Can anyone point me to clearly written instructions for how to get GA to track transactions through a third-party shopping cart? I have seen Google’s instructions at http://www.google.com/support/
analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=26915&topic=7178 but they are not detailed enough to help me with our third-party cart, http://www.securenetshop.com. We transmit product and purchase information to the cart from our pages using a form that is sent when the customer clicks on the “Add to Cart” button and I have already added Google’s code,