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prevent self-referrals (Google Analyics Warning) #438

Open noamoss opened 4 years ago

noamoss commented 4 years ago

Listen to google:

Self-Referrals

First detected: Dec 13, 2019 10:04:37 PM Last detected: Dec 14, 2019 11:43:56 PM

A significant portion of referral traffic to property next.obudget.org is from the following hostnames, which may be self-referrals:

socialmap.org.il

Self-referrals are referrals from pages within your own domains. Self-referrals can obscure the actual sources of traffic to which conversions and other engagement on your site should be attributed. As a result, your referral metrics could be inaccurate. Further, self-referrals could be indicative of improperly-configured cross-domain tagging. Your users could be generating a session per domain, which would artificially inflate session counts.

There are multiple different Analytics misconfigurations that can cause self-referrals. Users navigating from an untagged page on your site to a tagged page can appear as self-referrals. Users navigating from one subdomain on your site to another subdomain that uses a different cookie domain can appear as self-referrals. If you track multiple domains in one web property, users navigating across multiple domains on your site without linker parameters set up to transfer cookie information properly can appear as self-referrals.

To avoid self-referrals, ensure all pages on your site are correctly tagged with the Analytics tracking code, make sure that cross-domain tracking is configured correctly on all your pages, and check your cookie domain settings in your tracking code to be sure that all subdomains in a domain are using the same cookie domain.

Google Tag Assistant Recordings can help you determine where your self referrals might be happening.

Learn more: https://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=3198398&hl=en

akariv commented 4 years ago

Not sure what needs to be done here

noamoss commented 4 years ago

@akariv

  1. See if we are using Universal Analytics. If not, update.
  2. I think you should spend ~2h to explore and maybe apply the following parts on the provided link through the site themes templates: "Tracking Code Missing or Not Working on Landing Page" "Inconsistent Tracking Code Configuration"

to (hopefully) let us differentiate native next.obudget users from socialmap.org, hakol-kore and govbuy users.

hint: On the analytics acquisition / all traffic/referrals display we can see that socialmap.org is a leading source of traffic:

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