Comments on: Track iPhone Visitors to Your Site in Google Analytics

By: Jay Gohil

Jay Gohil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:42:14 +0000

Great post on tracking iPhone visitors by setting up separate profiles. But now Google Analytics does show you visits from mobile devices and what carriers they are using. (Visitors | Mobile). Interesting to see that for us most of the mobile visits come from iPhone, Blackberry and then Android.

By: DigitalAlex

DigitalAlex — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:41:41 +0000

Hey Kris,

I’m glad that worked out for you. Congrats on the figures, though they seem a bit dubious to me. I’d double-check that if I were you.

I’ve seen some websites auto-recognize a person by platform and present a special message that says “Visiting our site from an iPhone? Click here to download our iPhone application” It’s a smart way to target if you have the resources.

Yelp.com is the example I remember. Try it on your phone. I happen to like their application too.

-Alex

By: Kris G

Kris G — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:53:47 +0000

Cool Post Alex… we just got the iPhone in Canada not too long ago, but already we can see 20 000 visits in the past 30 days (autotrader.ca)! One of our consultants still refuses to believe it :)
This is making the case to consider mobile marketing efforts very strong.

By: Jacques Warren

Jacques Warren — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:24:25 +0000

Hi Alex,

I fot the 3G iPhone. You and I conducted tests on my two blogs and I could see your visit but not mine. I wonder if this could be caused by the carrier.

Has anyone amongst your readers who have noticed something similar?

By: Alex Cohen

Alex Cohen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:54:23 +0000

Michael – You’re right.

Jacques – Well, that’s interesting. I wonder why it only shows Mac. Do you have the first or second iPhone?

By: Jacques Warren

Jacques Warren — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:16:11 +0000

Hi Alex,

Not to be contrarian, but I visisted my site several times with my iPhone, and it doesn’t show in the OS report. I only see references to Mac.

By: Michael Stone

Michael Stone — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:11:11 +0000

For those of you who would like to track the other 99.9% of mobile devices, Google Analytics won’t help as most can’t handle the Javascript.

You will need an analytics solution specifically designed for mobile phone browsing such as Mobile Analytics from Amethon.