Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide. Google analytics hacks: A real-time stats bookmarklet and full referring URLs. Increase your productivity with the Google Analytics API. (Cross-posted from the Google Analytics Blog) Back in Episode 10 of Web Analytics TV, (32:00), Lisa C from Melbourne asked how to pull a trending report from Google Analytics for the top organic search landing pages. This was such a great question, that we wrote 2 articles and released sample code describing how you can automate retrieving this data from Google Analytics Data Export API. But first let’s look at the results. Here is a graph plotting traffic to the top 100 landing pages for organic search for all of June for www.googlestore.com. Let’s Analyze: This is the typical trend graph you can find across the Google Analytics web interface.
By itself, all you can tell is that something happened during the spike. what you can’t figure out is which page actually increased in traffic; to do so would require lots more digging. Now let’s try again: Here is a stacked area graph of each of the top 100 landing pages for organic search. Let’s Analyze: Awesome right! Have fun! Privacy Policy. Using Google Analytics for Improving Library Website Content and Design: A Case Study, Wei Fang. Introduction As more and more digital content goes online, libraries today are fundamentally different than they were as recently as five years ago. Websites have become an essential component of library service, and designing these websites involves both technical and administrative decision-making. During the past five years, the Rutgers-Newark Law Library (RNLL) has used different methods to figure out exactly what our visitors are looking for on ourwebsite.
Recently, we usedGoogle Analytics to track our visitors' behaviors, and pinpointed the motivations behind their information-seeking. The visually enhanced reports by Google Analytics provided information on where visitors came from, what pages they visited, how long they stayed on each page, how deep into the site they navigated, where their visits ended, and where they went from there. Objectives Methodology There are different methods for analyzing website traffic and usability. Google Analytics Background Figure 4: Site Overlay. Privacy Policy Preview – Google Privacy Center. There are many different ways you can use our services – to search for and share information, to communicate with other people or to create new content. When you share information with us, for example by creating a Google Account, we can make those services even better – to show you more relevant search results and ads, to help you connect with people or to make sharing with others quicker and easier.
As you use our services, we want you to be clear how we’re using information and the ways in which you can protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains: What information we collect and why we collect it. We’ve tried to keep it as simple as possible, but if you’re not familiar with terms like cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, then read about these key terms first. Information we collect We collect information in the following ways: Information you give us. How we use information we collect Transparency and choice People have different privacy concerns. Information you share. Privacy Policy | Default. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
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When visiting Elite Bathrooms, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. Does Your NonProfit Website Need a Privacy Policy? If your organization collects information from the users of your website — and the odds are that it does, if little more than the IP addresses scooped up by your site statistics package — have you posted a site privacy policy? Should you do so? In the service of those web users who are increasingly concerned with issues of data protection, a clear and simple privacy policy posted on your organization's website can go a long way to building trust. Who Cares about Protecting Personal Data? A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project — "Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency" (December 2007) — reports that a staggering 60% of internet users are "not worried" about how much of their personal information is available online, and feel no need to limit it.
This isn't the first research to identify a "disconnect" between what web users say is important and the way we actually behave when on the internet. Privacy Policy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, as well as our members and activists. EFF has established this Privacy Policy to explain what information we collect through our websites and how it is used.
In this policy, "EFF" refers to EFF staff, board members, cooperating attorneys, interns, volunteers, and consultants, all of whom are bound by law or contract to keep confidential information they receive as part of their assistance to EFF. EFF does not sell or rent member, donor or website visitor information under any circumstances, and we do not share member, donor or visitor information without prior consent except as compelled by law. (See discussion below.) Information Gathered by EFF's Site Circumstances in which EFF may need to log and retain technical information for longer than seven days include when we believe it is reasonably necessary for EFF’s mission and functionality, including situations such as: Security.
Panopticlick. The Future of Search: A One-Act Play in Three Acts (Act Two) - S. The New Gold Mine: Your Personal Information & Tracking Data Online. Analytics | Official Website. These Google Analytics Terms of Service (this "Agreement") are entered into by Google Inc. ("Google") and the entity executing this Agreement ("You"). This Agreement governs Your use of the standard Google Analytics (the "Service").
BY CLICKING THE "I ACCEPT" BUTTON, COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS, OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE REVIEWED AND ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT AND ARE AUTHORIZED TO ACT ON BEHALF OF, AND BIND TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OWNER OF THIS ACCOUNT. In consideration of the foregoing, the parties agree as follows: 1. Definitions. "Account" refers to the billing account for the Service. "Confidential Information" includes any proprietary data and any other information disclosed by one party to the other in writing and marked "confidential" or disclosed orally and, within five business days, reduced to writing and marked "confidential".
"Hit" means the base unit that the Google Analytics system processes. "Visitors" means visitors to Your Properties. 2. 3. Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village. Google Analytics, German Privacy and Paid Analytics Tools | dees-club. Setting Up Google Analytics For Your Bitbucket Repositories : Code Monkey Labs. Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know [APPS] Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google's servers.
How? Via notifications, a running tally of dangerous sites and, naturally, a super annoying, vuvuzela-like alarm. After seeing this new plugin — which works with both Firefox and Chrome — on F.A.T., I contacted the developer who made it: Jamie Wilkinson, who also created Know Your Meme and Mag.ma. Google Alarm, which was made during F.A.T.'s F*ck Google Week in Berlin, is supposed to make users aware of how much info they're sending to the search giant. According to Wilkinson, "Google makes great products and gives them all away for free, which has made them into a ubiquitous and omniscient force on the Internet.
So how does the plugin work? We've been seeing a ton of interesting plugins like this lately — Shaved Bieber, BP Oil, Ex-blocker (which, disclosure, I helped come up with). What do you think of this plugin? [img credit: twicepix] IPrivacy4IT – Clarinette's blog. Ad Cookies and Privacy.