Subdomain tracking in GA
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Hi Moz community. Wonder if you could help us out with a baffling Analytics issue.
Are there any reasons why the _setDomainName() function in Google Analytics wouldn't track across subdomains correctly? We have been seeing visits to a subdomain come up as referral traffic, even after implementing the right tracking code.
Would be interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this. Thanks in advance.
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If you have set it up correctly to track across subdomains a common cause of subdomain referrers is if you have pages that don't have the GA code on. When a visitors lands on one of these then navigates to a page that is tracked their referrer will be the subdomain.
Also check the tracking across subdomains is working by using the “Navigation Summary” to make sure there are visits that show “Next page” as a different subdomain.
Lastly there will always be some but as long as it is less than 5% of all referrers it is probably just the fact that web analytics tools are never perfect.
Hope that helps?
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