Since I wrote about tracking the full referrer in Google Analytics, I had feedback from some people saying that their content management system, forum software, etc doesn’t allow them to modify the HEAD section or BODY tag. Some other people are also hesitant to place the code in the HEAD section incase the Google Analytics [...]
Google Analytics
I never used Urchin, but am getting quite familiar with Google Analytics. I even found a way to hack it so that you can get the entire URL with all URL parameters. Since it's now free, it's an incredibly popular web analytics package and I usually advise my clients to take advantage of it.
Posted Thursday, February 15th, 2007.
Posted Monday, January 15th, 2007.
It’s so frustrating that you can’t usually find which forum thread is linking to your website, because under the referring site report, cross segment performance, content report, it truncates the URL at the end of the filename, so you end up with items like:
/forums/showthread.php
/forums/viewtopic.php
etc.
There are two options, the first is a hack which uses filters [...]
