a1dert/lh-tickets-test — Issue #30: Google Analytics vs. Free Trial
Author: a1dert
Created: 2011-11-30 11:34:34+00:00
State: open

Imported from lighthouse. Original ticket at: http://redtape.lighthouseapp.com/projects/59696/tickets/535. Created by Matthew Stibbe - 2011-10-12T07:12:06Z

Jurgen, my Adwords guy says:

"actually I think the Google Analytics code change will not change much. I've already taken a deeper look into this a few days ago, and both the old WP plugin code and the new Google Analytics code seem to determine a pages protocol (HTTP or HTTPS), and load the proper ga.js javascript therefore.

The problem is that HTTPS just doesn't permit referral info at all. So no matter what code we'd use, users browsing any HTTPS page on turbineHQ.com would always show up as noref traffic in our stats (or at best with turbinehq.com as referral). IMHO it would be better if we'd wait a bit till our tracking is fully implemented before we start pumping traffic through our campaigns. Cause all traffic that we're sending right now might look good, but unless we're really lucky we might be wasting money here, cause as long as I don't have any sales numbers to work with I can hardly do any optimization work besides good guessing :))"

Do we have some options here? For example, removing SSL encryption or doing something in Analytics? Also, can you please think about this very carefully for the design of the new sign up page? Should we build it in WordPress?

I need your help with this since it is technical and I have you guys telling me one thing and Jurgen telling me something else and I don't know exactly how to move forward! :)