I don't have a Google Analytics Premium account. Is there any other way forward?
On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 4:23:22 AM UTC+10, Patrice (Cloud Platform Support) wrote: > > Hi James, > > Thank you for your clarification, it does highlight what your issue is. > > Do you have a Google Analytics premium account? Because if you do, I would > suggest you go through them. I see this being a feature Request (ie "make > page referral a repeating attribute" or "make Adwords have precedence over > appengine.google.com/referra| <http://appengine.google.com/referra%7C>"). > They might already be aware of the situation and have a workaround for it! > > Cheers > > On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 12:35:24 AM UTC-4, James Foster wrote: >> >> Google Analytics tracks a single referring page for each session. I'm not >> 100% sure why a visitor logging in causes a new session in Google >> Analytics, but I suspect seeing a new referring page is what causes it. >> (eg. it looks like the user came from an external site) >> >> I can't add an "OR" clause in checks for Adwords because visitors who >> don't come from Adwords go through the same login flow. >> >> I'm using Google Analytics to measure the results from Adwords. The >> problem is that since Google Analytics tracks a single referrer for each >> session and the appengine.google.com referral comes after the Adwords >> referral, any conversions (from Adwords or other source/medium >> combinations) are being attributed as appengine.google.com/referral in >> Google Analytics. >> >> >> On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 1:45:08 AM UTC+10, Patrice (Cloud Platform >> Support) wrote: >>> >>> Hi James, >>> >>> Not being familiar with the AdWords part of it, I'm not entirely clear >>> on why this stops you. Can't you simply add an "OR" clause in your checks >>> for Adwords, adding "appengine.google.com" as a referral? >>> >>> Basically, what do you use to measure results from AdWords and why >>> having the referral breaks this? >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 11:18:48 PM UTC-4, James Foster wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm wondering whether anyone else is running into this and whether >>>> there is a workaround. >>>> >>>> My site sends users through Google login using users.create_login_url >>>> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/users/functions#create_login_url> >>>> when >>>> they opt to sign in. At that point, Google Analytics seems to tag the >>>> session as a referral from appengine.google.com. >>>> >>>> It's particularly disruptive, as it hinders my ability to measure >>>> results from AdWords. >>>> >>>> Is anyone else encountering this, or is it something unusual about my >>>> setup? Has anyone managed to work around or resolve this? >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/3a84c444-d4e0-49e3-b335-20c3d296f21a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
