Comments on: Google Analytics: Let’s use a filter http://www.mymotech.com/google-analytics-lets-use-a-filter/ Addicted to Web Analytics Since 2004 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:59:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mymo http://www.mymotech.com/google-analytics-lets-use-a-filter/comment-page-1/#comment-76 mymo Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:42:02 +0000 http://www.mymotech.com/?p=45#comment-76 Eric, Howdy. I have been reading your blog for a long time. I use Fiddler all the time, as well as IEWatch. Admittedly, I have never used the scripting capabilities you are speaking of. I look forward to dropping you a line about it. :) Eric,

Howdy. I have been reading your blog for a long time. I use Fiddler all the time, as well as IEWatch. Admittedly, I have never used the scripting capabilities you are speaking of. I look forward to dropping you a line about it. :)

]]> By: EricB http://www.mymotech.com/google-analytics-lets-use-a-filter/comment-page-1/#comment-75 EricB Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:43:29 +0000 http://www.mymotech.com/?p=45#comment-75 I use a tool called Fiddler (http://fiddlertool.com/). It is written by Eric Lawrence, an extremely bright engineer at Microsoft. It's a proxy that runs on your Windows system that you can point IE (and Firefox) to. The most amazing thing about it is how you can customize it. If you want to know how to block your browsers from hitting your analytics tools using Fiddler, drop me a line. Cheers, and thanks for the useful site! -Eric I use a tool called Fiddler (http://fiddlertool.com/). It is written by Eric Lawrence, an extremely bright engineer at Microsoft. It’s a proxy that runs on your Windows system that you can point IE (and Firefox) to. The most amazing thing about it is how you can customize it. If you want to know how to block your browsers from hitting your analytics tools using Fiddler, drop me a line.

Cheers, and thanks for the useful site!

-Eric

]]> By: mymo http://www.mymotech.com/google-analytics-lets-use-a-filter/comment-page-1/#comment-71 mymo Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:17:37 +0000 http://www.mymotech.com/?p=45#comment-71 Don't get me wrong Rich. I like to tear apart a log file with the best of them, and I only use Google Analytics for my personal sites not for clients. I did not try out the Technorati tracker. Obviously since GA is javascript based it won't see Technoratibot visits so that is logfiles only. As fat as visitor referrals from technorati GA gives visibility into how many visits arrived via Technorati and you can drill into the data enough to see what page brought them. There are some other types of configurations you could use to follow visitor paths and what not, but since I am measuring a blog it is not too informative. Don’t get me wrong Rich. I like to tear apart a log file with the best of them, and I only use Google Analytics for my personal sites not for clients.

I did not try out the Technorati tracker. Obviously since GA is javascript based it won’t see Technoratibot visits so that is logfiles only. As fat as visitor referrals from technorati GA gives visibility into how many visits arrived via Technorati and you can drill into the data enough to see what page brought them. There are some other types of configurations you could use to follow visitor paths and what not, but since I am measuring a blog it is not too informative.

]]> By: Rich http://www.mymotech.com/google-analytics-lets-use-a-filter/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Rich Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:41:11 +0000 http://www.mymotech.com/?p=45#comment-70 That's a useful tip. I don't actually use Google Analytics as I don't want the company that handles PPC to be tracking results (for me or my clients). Plus, I need a third party to measure clickfraud. I use my own, ugly unix shell scripts to parse the log files, so I "grep -v $myIPaddress" or "grep -v $myUserAgent" to filter my own clicks. BTW, did you try the <a href="http://www.apogee-web-consulting.com/blogger/2006/01/technorati-tracker-widget.html" rel="nofollow">Technorati Tracker demo</a>? Since you specialize in web analytics, I'm curious to see if you think it could be useful. Or, would you simply set up some sort of Technorati filter in Google Analytics if you wanted to isolate Technorati hits (and bot visits)? That’s a useful tip. I don’t actually use Google Analytics as I don’t want the company that handles PPC to be tracking results (for me or my clients). Plus, I need a third party to measure clickfraud. I use my own, ugly unix shell scripts to parse the log files, so I “grep -v $myIPaddress” or “grep -v $myUserAgent” to filter my own clicks.

BTW, did you try the Technorati Tracker demo? Since you specialize in web analytics, I’m curious to see if you think it could be useful. Or, would you simply set up some sort of Technorati filter in Google Analytics if you wanted to isolate Technorati hits (and bot visits)?

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