problem with redirection and google analytics

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problem with redirection and google analytics

Hello,

I created my professional website with iweb and bought a domain name for it can be simplest to remember, so this professional domain name (www.julienchabot.com) redirect to the iweb url (web.mac.com/julienchabot/iweb/com/home.html). Now I subscribed to Google Analytics to know the statistics of my website, but it seems that when people visit www.julienchabot.com, google analytics doesn't register any visit on my website, it only registers something when the iweb url (web.mac.com/julienchabot...) is visited, so only when I visit my website as a webmaster because I'm the only one to know this url.
So it's very frustrating for I can't know the statistics even if Google analytics seems to provide fantastics results !!!
However, when we're on julienchabot.com and that we read the source code, the correct code and iweb url appear on the top of the window... Does the problem come from the redirection company I subscribed to ?
Has someone a solution to this problem ?

Thank you very much for your help !!

Julien

eMac G4, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Apr 2, 2007 1:30 PM

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Julien75018 Author

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Apr 2, 2007 3:56 PM in response to Julien75018

In fact, I think it's due to the redirection company I subscribed to, they tell me that they use a "frame" ("mainframe") so the real url web.mac etc... can't be really reached if I correctly understand, what the user see is just a perfect copy of web.mac...
Do I have to give up having statistics (at least with Google analytics)? Does someone know maybe an other company whith which I could have statistics ?

Thank you very much !!

Julien

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Gretsch

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Apr 2, 2007 4:49 PM in response to Julien75018

I use http://my.statcounter.com/register.php for statistics - I embed the code into my iWeb site on my iDisk after I publish. (This is important because iWeb publish does a complete replacement not an update.)
I use use www.register.com for my redirected web address.
Everthing works fine. Just remember if you re-publishyou need to add the code to the iDisk version of iWeb.

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Julien75018 Author

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Apr 2, 2007 5:37 PM in response to Gretsch

Dear Gretsch,

Thank you for this website, I just registered but unfortunately the problem is still the same ! I think it's due to the redirect company I subscribed to, they use "frames" for the redirection.
Do you use frames as well for your website ? StatCounter asks if it's the case before providing the code and I replied "yes", they specify to put the code in the main page where there's not the "frame" code, but I don't know where this "frame" code is written, so I put the StatCounter code on the homepage one, but it's the same than with Google.
Would you mind provide me the url of your website for I can compare your code to mine ?
Thank you very much for your help !

Julien

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varkgirl

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Apr 3, 2007 2:07 PM in response to Julien75018

You have no pages located at yourdomain.com. Google (or statcounter or whoever) can only "see" your .Mac pages because that is where your actual content is.

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Julien75018 Author

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Apr 11, 2007 5:11 PM in response to varkgirl

Thank you for this information Varkgirl, in the meantime I understood this as well. Too bad Google analytics il limited like this.

Do you know a good website providing free stats ? I subscribed to StatCounter but it's limited to 100 logs and sometimes informations about countries/cities aren't really exact (less than Google analytics).

Thanks.

Bye.

Julien

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Julien75018 Author

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Apr 17, 2007 1:22 AM in response to Julien75018

Hello,

Following the string of e-mails above, does someone know a correct (and if possible free) website of statistics ? Because I have a redirection, Google Analytics doesn't work, and Statcounter isn't perfect for the localizations of web users and we have to pay if we need the informations for up to 100 logs.

A suggestion ?

Thanks !

Julien

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varkgirl

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Apr 17, 2007 2:02 AM in response to Julien75018

Anything you use will still need to go on your redirected pages... (your .Mac pages)

At Statcounter you need to select NO for frames, then paste the code into your .Mac pages. Same goes for google analytics.

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