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Track Google Site Preview Bot in Google Analytics

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 05:11 AM PST

Rasmus Himmelstrup (@rasmusgi) tweeted a link to a post on Web Analytics Island about how to track the Google Site Preview bot in SiteCatalyst. The tracking relies on the face that Google site preview shows a rendered image of the page so it must execute any javascript on the page. If Google are executing the Site Catalyst code then maybe they are also running the Google Analytics code. I want to track this thing. Let’s get to work!

Kevin at Web Analytics Island uses the user agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) ApplewebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko; google web preview) Version/3.1 Safari/525.13

to identify the Google bot, but this information (as a complete string) is not available in Google Analytics. But I could check that visits using the Google bot version of safari increased after the introduction of Site Preview:

This is kind of what I wanted to see.

I made an advanced segment to contain this data:

Looking at the “Service Providers” report shows that this segment is definitely interesting, even if it is not tracking the Google Site Preview Bot:

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