Comments on: Make GA Data Quality Suck Less!

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:13:29 +0000

Great idea Martin, thanks!

By: Martin Leblanc

Martin Leblanc — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:37:11 +0000

Hi Justin

Great post.

Another thing that could be added to the list is a filter that replace %20 with whitespace or the other way around. Of course whitespaces shouldn’t be in URLs but when they do, they show up differently if the visitors use Firefox and Internet explorer.

/Martin

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By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:05:12 +0000

Ward,

Using the carrot depends on your IP address. If the IP address starts with two characters, like this:

12.123.123.123

then you ABSOLUTELY MUST use the carrot. The reason is that if you do not use the carrot, your IP regular expression will match ANY IP address that has a digit BEFORE the 12. That means the following IPs will match your reg ex:

112.123.123.123
212.123.123.123

Thanks for the question and thanks for reading the blog!

Justin

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:00:51 +0000

Hi Rhonda,

Unfortunately the on site search processing happens before filters are applied to the data. That means that we can not use filters to manipulate the reports. The only way to manipulate the data in the on site search reports is programatically. I’ve wirtten a bit about it here.

Thanks for the comment and thanks for reading.

Justin

By: Rhoda Schueller

Rhoda Schueller — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:39:45 +0000

Hi Justin,
I’ve recently set up the site search on the art site I work on for a client. As the keywords used in the site search began to be listed I noticed many of them either had a capital letter as a first letter or all the letters were capitals. So I was interested in using the lowercase filter to remove the capitals from the site search phrases. The regular keywords used to reach the site are all lowercase already. So I was excited to follow your lowercase filter example. However, it didn’t change the case of the site search keyword phrases. Is there another filter to make the change with?

Thanks for the help.
Rhoda Schueller

By: Ward

Ward — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:22:49 +0000

Hi Justin,

Thanks for that post – good stuff! I had a question about the ip filter – I have been doing this for a while for a bunch of IPs corresponding to different offices around the country. Is it really necessary to have the caret ^ at the front of the match? I wonder if i have been screwing this up all this time.

Thanks,
W

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:46:01 +0000

Thanks Avinash!

By: Avinash Kaushik

Avinash Kaushik — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:17:37 +0000

Excellent post Justin. Hopefully this is already included in your most excellent e-book that everyone should buy ten copies of!

Thanks, really enjoyed the actionability of this post.

-Avinash.