Pairone Networks Ltd http://www.pairone.com/blog Official Blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:45:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Finding the real referring URL in Google Analytics http://www.pairone.com/blog/2010/09/finding-the-real-referring-url-in-google-analytics/ http://www.pairone.com/blog/2010/09/finding-the-real-referring-url-in-google-analytics/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:45:32 +0000 admin http://blog.pairone.com/?p=27 If you have ever used google Analytics for your website you may have come across an annoying quirk that hides the full referring URL when viewing “Traffic Sources”. Only the domain itself is shown which becomes an issue if you are trying to track down visitors being refered from a forum / blog post or similar. Fortunately this can be easily resolved by adding  a custom filter in Google Analytics.  Please follow the instructions below to setup the filter.

1) Login to your Google Analytics profile and edit profile

Google Analytics Full referrer filter

Edit profile in Google Analytics

2) Add a custom filer.

Adding custom filter in google analytics

Adding a custom filter in google analytics

3) Add custom Profile with the following settings.

Field A -> Extract A – Referral  (.*)
Field B -> Extract B – (Leave Blank)
Output To -> Constructor – User Defined $A1
Settings for the custom filter to show full referring URL in traffic sources

Settings for the custom filter

4) To view the report go to Visitors –> User-defined

User-defined filter showing the full referring URL's in Google Analytics

Sample of URL's showing full links

Unfortunately the filter will only apply to new traffic so it will show (not set) until new traffic data comes in.

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On August 27, 2010, between 12:01am and 05:00am CST, our DC Operations team will perform a migration of servers located on racks bp14-32 in our Dllstx6 data center. During this maintenance, the servers will be gracefully shut down and placed on a new rack. Upon completion,  network connectivity and power will be restored. All IP addresses will be maintained.

While we’ve scheduled a five-hour maintenance window, we anticipate less than 60 minutes of downtime for each affected server. Our technicians have performed this maintenance several times in our other data centers and have established a process to minimize the outage period during the moves.

The following servers will be affected. Please note that portions of our control panel software is hosted on these servers so the control panel will be unavailable during the migration.

bp14a.02.dllstx6 (10.6.207.227) (Distribution Switch)

web-701A-ds-us.pairone.com (74.53.18.164)

web-701B-ds-us.pairone.com (74.53.18.165)

mail-702A-ds-us.pairone.com (74.53.18.166)

mysql-703A-ds-us.pairone.com (74.53.18.167)

hspc-704A-ds-us.pairone.com (74.53.18.168)

win-701A-ds-us.pairone.com (74.53.18.181)

Please contact us if you would like any further information

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Hi and welcome to the Pairone Networks official corporate blog.

We will be updating this blog regularly over the coming months with tutorials, howtos, upcoming product launches and much more. I have heard from our customers that we need to be more open about future products and services and to communicate more frequently with our customers. So we have taken a number of steps to improve communication.

  • We have launched this corporate blog which I hope to have updated regularly.
  • We have opened an official twitter account @p1net
  • We will be restarting our e-mail newsletter which will be sent out every month or two with the latest news & announcements.

Comments will be open an all our posts so the general public and our customers can submit feedback.

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