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How can I see where users come from Google Analytics?
It’s very easy to see the traffic sources of a specific page in your Google Analytics account. To start, log into your Google Analytics account and navigate to Behavior » Site Content. From there you can choose whether to view the traffic sources of all of your website’s pages, the landing pages, or the exit pages.
How do I track a source in Google Analytics?
To check traffic sources on specific pages:
- Log into Google Analytics.
- Click ‘Behaviour -> Overview’.
- Click the page you want to analyze.
- Click the Secondary dimension drop down menu.
- Within the drop down menu, click Acquisition -> Source (or medium, depending if you want to see general or specific traffic sources).
How is one domain tracked in Google Analytics?
The default Google Analytics tracking is setup to treat each domain as a property. So, using standard Google Analytics tracking: One domain = 1 Google Analytics property. User behavior that occurs on a domain is tracked in Google Analytics using sessions.
How does tracking code work on Google Analytics?
Whenever a new visitor lands on your website, this tracking code places a line of code containing a unique id named as client_id in the visitor’s browser. Whenever the same user visits your site again from the same browser this id is used to identify as a returning visitor.
In cross-domain tracking, we share cookie information between two or more domains. This domain can be a primary domain or subdomain. The cookie information that we pass from one domain to another is the client ID. This client ID is stored in the Google Analytics cookie _ga.
What happens when you cross subdomain in Google Analytics?
Without cross-subdomain tracking, GA will count a new session every time a user goes from a subdomain to a domain (and vice versa). This means that total sessions are being miscalculated and referral data gets lost. Translation — there’s no way to tell where a user came from and sessions become inflated.