Google Analytics tracks a single referring page for each session. I'm not 100% sure why a visitor logging in causes a new session in Google Analytics, but I suspect seeing a new referring page is what causes it. (eg. it looks like the user came from an external site)
I can't add an "OR" clause in checks for Adwords because visitors who don't come from Adwords go through the same login flow. I'm using Google Analytics to measure the results from Adwords. The problem is that since Google Analytics tracks a single referrer for each session and the appengine.google.com referral comes after the Adwords referral, any conversions (from Adwords or other source/medium combinations) are being attributed as appengine.google.com/referral in Google Analytics. On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 1:45:08 AM UTC+10, Patrice (Cloud Platform Support) wrote: > > Hi James, > > Not being familiar with the AdWords part of it, I'm not entirely clear on > why this stops you. Can't you simply add an "OR" clause in your checks for > Adwords, adding "appengine.google.com" as a referral? > > Basically, what do you use to measure results from AdWords and why having > the referral breaks this? > > Cheers > > On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 11:18:48 PM UTC-4, James Foster wrote: >> >> I'm wondering whether anyone else is running into this and whether there >> is a workaround. >> >> My site sends users through Google login using users.create_login_url >> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/users/functions#create_login_url> >> when >> they opt to sign in. At that point, Google Analytics seems to tag the >> session as a referral from appengine.google.com. >> >> It's particularly disruptive, as it hinders my ability to measure results >> from AdWords. >> >> Is anyone else encountering this, or is it something unusual about my >> setup? Has anyone managed to work around or resolve this? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/f34056a7-c344-4f9a-8ed3-c4ad8d434884%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
