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Yep. For queries with large volumes of data, Analytics does do sampling and gives you error margins (+/- x%) next to each number. I found that having these marg
by pierrefar 16y ago
Yep. For queries with large volumes of data, Analytics does do sampling and gives you error margins (+/- x%) next to each number. I found that having these margins helps convince higher ups that it's OK, and also tells me when it's not OK and have to dig a bit more.
- 124816 16y agoI think drosenthal is talking about sampling the number of hits you send to analytics. GA's tracking api supports this: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiBasicConfiguration.html#_gat.GA_Tracker_._setSampleRate http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiBasic...