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By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:20:56 +0000

Vanessa,

You can track when people visit your site. So you equate a click to a visit, which is not 100% accurate but fairly close. Use the Visitors > Visitor Trending reports. You’ll notice a time of date view under the date range selection tool.

Hope that helps,

Justin

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:08:44 +0000

Rhonda,

Due to the campaign attribution model that GA uses, it’s very difficult to track the original referrer (meaning the very first click that brought the visitor to the site).

If you’re looking for how long it takes people to convert, you actually need to use e-commerce tracking. GA will only measure conversion latency, i.e. how many visits, or how many days, it takes someone to convert.

Check out this post on using GA for non-commerce sites

Hope that helps.

Justin

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:47:33 +0000

Is there any way to track the conversion delay through Google Analytics? i.e. track how long it takes for each paid search lead to convert from the moment they first clicked on the ad, based on the cookie window.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:44:37 +0000

Is it possible to get time/date details on when someone clicked a referral link to our site? I get that it tracks how many clicks, but cannot seem to drill down as to when those clicks are happening.

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By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:14 +0000

Hi Abhishek,

In order to solve your problem you need to create a virtual pageview that contains a query string parameter for the internal site search term.

Check out this post that I wrote about tracking visitor clicks using GA.

Thanks for the question,

Justin