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ashasabeer
Posts: 55
Posted 20:36 Jan 15, 2011 |

I have few questions on hw1 part 1

 

1)How do Google Analytics identify a Vistor(guest) ? Is it through session_id?

2)How do  Google Analytics identify a Vistor is new or old for a particular page?

 

Thanks

Asha

cysun
Posts: 2935
Posted 09:11 Jan 16, 2011 |

1. For websites that do not require user login, usually a user is identified by the combination of the client IP address and the browser type (i.e. User-Agent). This method is not 100% accurate, e.g. all the users who use IE on a lab computer will be identified as one user, but without additional information, this is usually considered good enough.

For the homework you can use the client IP address to identify a user.

2. You need to figure this out. All the information is in the raw data table.