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For questions related to analytics methods and tools.

Analytics is typically the application of descriptive statistical methods to large data sets. This is usually in contrast to predictive methods, which relate to unseen data or to tasks that are dependent on the outcome of a model. Analytics is often related to reporting on databases and in the context of "web analytics" encompasses analysis of site traffic, online revenue, site usage, and other interests.

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Is it a bad idea to use multiple analytic packages?

Is it alright to use multiple analytics packages (Google, clicky, mixpanel, etc) at the same time on the same site? Would it be more beneficial to just use one package?
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What are the pros & cons of web server log analysis over web based analytics like google analytics

What are the advantages of web server log file analysis over web services like google analytics? What are the advantages of google analytics like tools over web server log file analysis?
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Does Google still have benchmarking report?

I have been looking for Google benchmarking reports for a while, still cannot find it. Is it still available?
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What is "?sfgdataq" that I see appended to some requests to my application?

I have noticed that a small number of requests come through my application with ?sfgdataq appended to them, I probably wouldn't have ever noticed it if it didn't cause an error on some requests. I have seen requests come through with a mix of user…
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Any other services like MouseTrace? How useful is it?

I just need to know if there are any alternatives to mousetrace - http://www.mousetrace.com
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Low Bounce rate - too good to be true?

Found a website with 4% bounce rate over a 5 month period, getting a little over a 1000 visits a week with most visitors coming from organic search results. Is that even possible? I never seen a bounce rate so low. The website itself has just an…
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Exporting Google Analytics Data

I want to export all of my Google Analytics data to Excel for a weekly report. I will need to re-export the data every week so the process needs to be maintainable. What is the best way to just get a raw data dump of all analytics data into a CSV…
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Looking for non-paid heat map tools for website analytics

I'm looking for a heat map solution to track my users' behavior on my website, preferably free of charge. I've already googled a little bit and here is what I found so far. Still I would like to ask for some first hand experience, that'll help me…
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How do you get new sites into your Quantcast network?

Over a month ago, we added some of the new Stack Exchange sites to the "Stack Overflow Network" on Quantcast, but to date, they haven't showed up: http://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc#subdomain Is this because of traffic numbers, or because we…
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clicktale.com alternative that works with https and ajax

I need to record user's actions on site for analytics purposes. The way clicktale.com doing it is just fine. But unfortunately it have problems with working over https and recording ajax events. Is there some service or script/library that I can…
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What is the difference between average daily sessions vs average daily hits for website traffic?

I am referring a link https://www.eurovps.com/blog/how-much-ram-cpu-storage-iops-vps-needs/ to come up with a rough estimate on sizing. For bandwidth consumption, the example used there is Page Size ± = 1.8MB Average Page views per Session:…
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Tracking PDF downloads thank you pages

I want to track PDF downloads that take place on my site. I understand I have to create a Google Analytics goal to track conversions. I understand that I have to provide GA the URL of the "thank you" page I want to track. If I have 5 different PDFs,…
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Is it beneficial to use more than one website analytics application for a single website?

For example, mixing: Woopra, Google Analytics, and Clicky. They all offer free services, and this way I could have more information. Are there any problems with this (e.g., slowing down the website, conflicts between the tools, etc...)?
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Displaying google analytics data on my website

I sell ad space for my websites directly to the advertisers. I ad page where I want to show Google Analytics information that updates automatically without me having to manually update everyday or every month. Something like this:…
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Tracking website hits from 3rd party mobile app

Our business has ads on the local news channels website and mobile app. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to track if a visitor came to your website from a 3rd party app?
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