December 2018 – Websiteffects

Google Analytics

Visitors

Posted on December 28, 2018December 28, 2018by Freerk Polling

Even though I have not done anything yet, I started to get some comments on some of the posts. Posts mainly created to see how the layout works, to get a little bit of an idea how to proceed.

All comments are spam coming from Russia. I guess that is something we need to learn to live with. The onslaught of Russian nonsense.

Somehow they don’t seem to show up in Google Analytics, so I guess there are bots at work, not people. But at least it will not mess up the Analytics later, so that is a good thing.

I did notice some google traffic. Since there is no content on the site, I presume people have googled my name and ended up here in the hope to learn something about me.

Wrong place for that, but at least is show that my Tag Manager is set up correctly, so that is a good start.

Setting up the site

Google Tag Manager

Posted on December 21, 2018December 21, 2018by Freerk Polling

One of the things about Google Analytics is the exclusion of your own visits when you check things on your site. All articles you find are about excluding your IP address. That requires you to have a static IP address and since I have a dynamic IP address and use several devices, I needed a different solution.

After a little bit of search I ran into http://carloseo.com/exclude-dynamic-ip-google-analytics/ and I decided to try it.

Since I had not set up Google Tag Manager yet, I created an account and use the “Head, Footer and Post Injections” plugin to insert the code into my site.

After following his tutorial I was able to see all visits in Google Analytics and not myself.

Setting up the site

Google Analytics

Posted on December 14, 2018December 14, 2018by Freerk Polling

The most logical place to start our analytics is Google Analytics. It is free, so the price is right and it is easy to get started.

There is also a lot of documentation available about google analytics and how to set it up. Part of the problem is that there are apparently many ways to skin this cat, and as a eesult it can get quite confusing.

Although this site is not necessarily a tutorial about google analytics, We will document my trials and errors and see whether we can set it up correctly.