Comments on: Mobile Analytics with Google Analytics

By: Pablo Diaz

Pablo Diaz — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:30:52 +0000

Hi, great post. I just wanted to contribute the little tweak I had to make to the regular expression in order to include ipads and other larger sort-of-mobile devices.

(^[1-7]?[0-9]?[0-9])x([1-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]$|10[0-2][0-9]$)

By: Bryson Meunier

Bryson Meunier — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:14:18 +0000

This is an old article, I’m afraid, and Google Analytics now has a powerful mobile solution for those who have cared to implement it. To your point I would say that they have learned from Bango and others who have provided world class mobile analytics and used their learnings to improve the tool.

By: PULSA

PULSA — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:22:49 +0000

I’ve seen this Bango tool as a powerful one. Google has to learn from this tool, huh

By: Jorgen

Jorgen — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:29:56 +0000

Get a quick installation guide on Google Analytics for mobile xhtml sites here: http://tips4php.net/2010/05/finally-statistics-for-your-mobile-site-in-google-analytics/

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Analytics – All 2010 Nominees » SEMMYS.org — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:12:27 +0000

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By: Andy Bovingdon

Andy Bovingdon — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:19:14 +0000

Regarding the new Google Analytics for Mobile, we constantly run the latest versions of both Bango Analytics and Google Analytics on http://mobislim.com. At the moment Google has not improved the accuracy of their mobile data recording. Their new additions do help with mobile as their old JavaScript centric code failed on most mobile devices and actually prevented sites displaying on some mobile browsers. But even though they now support image tags they don’t get visitor identity from mobile partnerships in the same way as Bango.

Go grab a free Bango trial from http://bango.com/analytics and check it out for yourself.

By: R. A. Burrell

R. A. Burrell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:43:33 +0000

I used Operating System, excluded Windows, Mac, Not Set. It seems better suited.

By: R. A. Burrell

R. A. Burrell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:28:17 +0000

I think excluding browsers is a better method than screen resolution.

By: O

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:02:34 +0000

Hello,

Have you tried the new Google Anaytics for Mobile?

Do you think it is a workable solution compared to Bango?

Best regards,

By: Google Analytics plays mobile catch up……and still manages to come last! « Bango blog

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:33:09 +0000

[...] only tracked 12% of the mobile page views to a website that Bango Analytics identified (see http://www.brysonmeunier.com/mobile-analytics-with-google-analytics for details). So after much waiting and unknown quantities of inaccurate analytics reports later, [...]

By: SEOLion

SEOLion — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:58:57 +0000

Okay, I have modified your segment a bit to include devices mentioned above. Please read about it at

http://www.seolion.com/google-analytics-advanced-segment-for-mobile-device-traffic/

Looking for bug reports and suggestions to modify these segments

By: Mobile Device specific reports in Google Analytics using Advanced Segments » SEO Lion’s Blog

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:56:53 +0000

[...] to Bryson Meunier for his advanced segment using screen resolutions, read the post at http://www.brysonmeunier.com/mobile-analytics-with-google-analytics/ . I have modified his segment to include devices with higher screen resolutions and you can [...]

By: SEOLion

SEOLion — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:32:04 +0000

This segment is not taking care of 360×640 and 640×360 screen resolutions (it’s on Nokia 5800), it would be great if you could update your regex.

By: Kelly Heikkila

Kelly Heikkila — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:20:58 +0000

Thanks for the work. I’ve found a few of your posts quite useful. However, I have a bit of a hard time believing the GA numbers. In particular, the iPhone vs. the iPod Touch. The browser/cookie/JavaScript support is identical between the two, so there is no reason that GA shouldn’t count both of them. Perhaps it has something to do with the Advanced Segment regular expression rather than GA not recognizing them? I’m not sure how the phone vs. iPod touch reports screen size, especially in landscape vs. portrait mode? I know there are plenty of feature-phones that don’t get counted in GA due to lack of JS/Cookies, but I don’t believe the iPhone is one of them.

By: How to Kick Ass with a Mobile Website

How to Kick Ass with a Mobile Website — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:17:28 +0000

[...] Google Analytics provides a segment for iPhone users, but a broader mobile segment for analysing this traffic would be preferential. The most obvious way to construct this segment is by grouping together the different types of mobile browsers currently on offer, but this list is ever-changing and many of these browsers are poor at executing JavaScript: mobile data will be missed altogether and the segment will be less accurate. [ more info here] [...]