Knowledge is Power I like your style! I am exactly the same. I love digging deep into my GA account to find all the information I can on my visitors. Thanks for the detail there was a lot I didn’t know and cannot wait to head over and check out your other post on tracking downloads.

I use Xenu to check for any broken links within my website what do you think about that software?

Thanks,

Karn

Thanks for your message. From time to time I do need a knock on the door to get me awaken and get back to writing. I managed to write only 2 articles on the series, the second one being: http://blog.avangate.com/how-to-track-downloads/. I’ll get back to writing right away.

Great article.
But this is the first one, where is the other Nine? The title shows that there are ten things I probably didn’t know. I am eager to reading them.

Thank you.

The answer to your question is yes and no. Through multiple filters or segments you might get that data but from the analytics point of view it can prove to be of little value and it might even not be very compliant to Google Analytics Privacy rules.

However, there are services that can help you a great deal with getting granular data like you want. Here are two services that might do just that:
http://www.clicktale.com/
http://www.woopra.com

Thanks for great article. Looks like you have good knowledge of Google analytics. I am trying to find out if it is possible to get analytics data at user level granularity like which pages a specific user visited, how long he stayed on the page and what next page he visited. I would imagine user can be defined by a ip address or host name or somekind of sessionid. Goolge analytics shows me aggregated data and provides means to segment the data, but I want to track this data to user level granulate. Is this something possible with google analytics?

Appreciate your time.

Thank you

Basically everything stays on the pageTracker._trackPageview() code line which should be replaced with:
pageTracker._trackPageview(”/404-error”+location.pathname);

After setting it up just load a 404 page on your website and check the source code for the following expression “404-error”. If you find it within _trackPageview Google Analytics function as shown above, than all should be working well.

Let me know how it work out?

Cheers,
Marcial