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June 15, 2015 at 9:46 pm #42620

amstourist
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Hello from Amsterdam!

Since I installed the new Google Analytics system included in WPGeodirectory it seems that traffic has increased big time….
Normally I would be very happy with an increase in visitors, but I think this might be a bug…
I also use this plugin: Google Analytics by Yoast.

Did you encountered any problems?

Cheers, Jan

June 15, 2015 at 9:56 pm #42621

Paolo
Site Admin

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Hi,

can you please be more specific?

Do you see any difference between visits reported on Google Analytics for each listings and visits on the widget?

Let us know,

Thx

June 15, 2015 at 10:06 pm #42622

amstourist
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Hi Paolo,

Sorry I wasn’t clear enough…

As you can see on the attached imagescreen I have had an enourmous (almost double) increase in pageviews from the day I installed the Google Aanalytuics feature.
Also on that day my bouncerate dropped (second orange arrow).

So I thought the Google Analytics code within WP Geodir had something to do with it….

Cheers, Jan

June 15, 2015 at 10:43 pm #42625

Paolo
Site Admin

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Hi,
that looks strange, however what you installed only reads data from Google analytics…

It shouldn’t be altering page views. I don’t see how it could.

Did you check statistics for that period only, to see if there is one or more pages that are responsible for the increase?

I’ve flagged this for Stiofan… maybe he has some other ideas.

Thanks

June 16, 2015 at 7:09 am #42643

amstourist
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Hi Paolo,

Thx for the answer.

Perhaps because now the google analytics code is twice on my website it is counting every view double?

– With the Google Analytics PLugin by Yoast
– Code in your function for Google Analytics

Hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers, Jan

June 16, 2015 at 9:41 am #42662

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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Hi Jan,

Maybe if you have your tracking code on the page twice, you only need to insert your tracking code on the GD analytics page (at the bottom) if you don’t have it installed anywhere else.

Stiofan

June 16, 2015 at 9:57 am #42665

amstourist
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Hi Stiofan,

Thx.
I’ll try and see what happens. I’ll keep you posted in a few days…

Cheers, Jan

June 16, 2015 at 10:01 am #42667

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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thanks

June 19, 2015 at 7:53 pm #43116

amstourist
Expired Member

Post count: 185

Hi Paolo & Stiofan,

After removing the tracking code from your plugin, numbers are back to normal…
See attached file..

So something went wrong.

Cheers, Jan

July 1, 2015 at 5:34 am #44281

John Smith
Free User

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Sometime Google analytics tracks traffic from invalid source, It counts bounce rate as a unique visitors Probably, thats why you are getting huge traffic. Ensure that the configuration is correct, Otherwise try something else like Gostats. It is easy to install & shows accurate report.

July 1, 2015 at 6:06 am #44283

Robert Nus
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Yes, same happening in my case, GA gathering a huge data which is incorrect, I checked its setting but still the result is same. I have heard about Gostats, Can you tell me How it works?

July 1, 2015 at 11:50 am #44316

Stiofan O’Connor
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We changed from sessions to pageviews in the last release, just FYI.

Stiofan
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