What happens if you make this Analytics mistake?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by tim-the-traveler, Jun 15, 2011.

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    I haven't made this mistake before, but I'm curious to know what would happen.

    Say you have two websites, A and B. Each has 100 pages. You add them to your Analytics account. When you are added the Analytics tracking code, you accidentally added the tracking code for website A onto 50 pages of website B, and you added tracking code for website B onto 50 pages of website A. So now half the pages of each website carry the other site's tracking code. Which of the following should happen:

    a) You will only be able to see the report for the tracking code that you add correctly. Meaning you can only view the traffic from 50 pages of site A and 50 pages of site B.

    b) Google Analytics will consider the 50 pages in site A to be in site B, and will show you a wrong report.

    c) Google Analytics will be intelligent to tell the difference in domain, and give you a correct report.

    If you have done a mistake similar to above, please share the outcome.
     
    tim-the-traveler, Jun 15, 2011 IP
  2. dpexpert1

    dpexpert1 Greenhorn

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    i dont know why you posted this thread, analytics treats visits to separate Url's as unique and unrelated, this is how you would expect analytics to work :)
     
    dpexpert1, Jun 17, 2011 IP
  3. kahthan

    kahthan Active Member

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    GA will only count the visits to the site A within the site A profile. it will not count traffic to other domains with the same analytics code.
     
    kahthan, Jun 20, 2011 IP