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Question About Google Analytics Results

by gjd6599
3 replies
I have a lot of sites listed in Google analytics, but I am never sure where they come up with some of their data. An example is a new site I just built about a month ago. It is a blog with three pages of content, and five legal pages.

When I check analytics, they show 36 pages. Some of them make sense because they are the actual pages, but most of their results don't.

They are pages like /?page_id=12&preview=true or /tcr/50%discountcode703394001. They also all show page views. When I put these with the domain name like mydomainname.com/tcr/50%discountcode703394001 I get a message that says, "You do not have permission to view drafts".

What are all these wierdo pages that seem to have page views, and unique views? It makes it difficult to actually see what the site is really doing in analytics, with all these crazy pages listed. Is it something I can change is all in one seo, to make them go away, or is it just an analytics thing?

I have about 70 two and three page sites in analytics, and they all do this, so it makes it hard to take a quick look at the page results, when every little site has five or six pages of them, and most of it is useless.

Thanks Glenn
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  • Profile picture of the author Stangracer
    Hey Glenn,

    It seems to me that Big G analytics is picking up all the things you do as the administrator of the blogs...

    Is there an admin cookie you can set in your browser or a way to ignore your IP address so it doesn't pick all that stuff up?

    I don't use Big G analytics, I use Piwik analytics and it has both an admin cookie so it ignores you and the means to add IP addresses to ignore.

    That way you don't get bogus readings.

    Hope that helps out...

    Thanks,

    Derek
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    • Profile picture of the author gjd6599
      Hi Derek, I recently added my ip address to the do not list, so google analytics won't count me, every time I go into my sites, in the statistics. I think I did it before I made this newest site, but maybe not.

      You could be right, I never thought of that. If that is the case, hopefully eventually the unnecessary results will disappear.

      Thanks Glenn
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