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Comment on Subdomain tracking using custom analytics tracking script & filters by Brett Pringle

Brett Pringle — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:36:25 +0000

Hi Mike,

Sounds like your analytics is “stuttering” a bit there (if i understand correctly). Possible to see your filter setup for appending the hostname to the URI?

Comment on Subdomain tracking using custom analytics tracking script & filters by Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:53:57 +0000

Hi Brett

just a few queries regarding subdomain filters:
i have setup filter for a site with
example.com
subdomain1.example.com
subdomain2.example.com

Have created a master profile and individual profile for each of the sub domains. have also applied an included filter and a sub domain filter (similar to yours) to each of the sub domains. In the reporting, i am getting errors with example.com/subdomain1.com shown the ‘visit this link’ and also overlay links.

if you can help out, that would be awesome

thanks heaps in advance

Comment on Subdomain tracking using custom analytics tracking script & filters by Sky

Sky — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:01:25 +0000

Nice post!
Easy to understand.
Thank you!

Comment on Exclude filter in analytics for WordPress post/page previews by Brett Pringle

Brett Pringle — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:05:52 +0000

Great to hear Adam! Nothing beats a nice clean top content list in analytics

Comment on Exclude filter in analytics for WordPress post/page previews by Adam Fullerton

Adam Fullerton — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:01:12 +0000

Great post. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while and you laid it out really well, screen shots are always a good idea! Thanks

Comment on Subdomain tracking using custom analytics tracking script & filters by Brett Pringle

Brett Pringle — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:53:14 +0000

Hi Anupama,

Technically if you add the setDomain variable into the script and make use of the filters it should not be an issue that you have 2 different UA profile tracking numbers. As this would then allow the subdomains and parent domain to use the same cookie information. Personally i’ve never tried this tracking sub-domains with different UA codes (you’ve given different profile numbers however, which should be fine), however you should be able to gather the data needed by using the same cookie and then applying the filters to the profiles.

Comment on Subdomain tracking using custom analytics tracking script & filters by Anupama Joshi

Anupama Joshi — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:45:02 +0000

Great Post!The Sreenshots and Diagrams made it very easy to understand how to go about it. However, I am still unclear on one thing – will this work for subdomains with different UA numbers? e.g. Parent domain has the GA code with UA-12345-1 and sud-domain with UA-12345-2. What will happen in such a case?

Comment on Google Analytics – creating multiple goals by Brett Pringle

Brett Pringle — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:04:12 +0000

Great

Let me know how things turn out

Comment on Google Analytics – creating multiple goals by Amy Ganderson

Amy Ganderson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:40:58 +0000

Thanks Brett. I tested out the goal data to come in sitewide and it worked. I’ll try the regular expression with the www in the filter pattern. Fingers crossed

Comment on Google Analytics – creating multiple goals by Brett Pringle

Brett Pringle — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:50:33 +0000

Hi Amy,

Goal data you wish to track, is it subdomain specific or sitewide? Goals are pretty much profile specific, so i’m just assuming based on your comment above that you are looking for to have all data displayed for goals (including the subdomains) within the parent domain? However you are able to track global goals within the parent domain profile if you have customised your parent domain filters to append the hostname to your request URI, you should be able to track goals across all domains for example:

thankyou.asp is the confirmation page you wish to track, and the parent domain profile has the filter for the hostname, it will track goal data from say blog.example.com/thankyou.asp in the parent profile. Only catch is, you will need to be very careful with the goal setup if you are using goal funnels.

Ahh, regular expressions, boy those give my brain a hard time sometimes. Have you tried adding the “www” to the filter pattern, to specify the entire hostname for the parent domain?