How Many of Your Visits are from iPhones?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | 11:38 AM
Labels: Advanced Topics, Announcements
Advanced Segmentation is one of Google Analytics' most powerful features - you can use it to slice and dice your Google Analytics data by, well, pretty much anything. We've made it a little easier to see what your iPhone visitors are doing on your site by adding a default Advanced Segment showing just visits from iPhones.
Enabling the new iPhone segment is easy: click on the drop down menu at the top right of any report next to the text "Advanced Segments", and select "Visits from iPhones" in the list of default segments. You might want to turn off "All Visits" when viewing your iPhone segment; if the percentage of total visits to your site from the iPhone is small, it will be difficult to visualize the two sets on numbers on the same graph.
Like any Advanced Segment, all of Google Analytics' reports are available; this includes AdWords performance, of course. If you use AdWords, you can now use Analytics to better analyze the performance of any campaigns that use our new iPhone and high-end mobile targeting feature. We've added the iPhone segment to get you started, but you can always create a custom Advanced Segment to compare or combine iPhone visits with other mobile operating systems; for instance, if you're targeting ads in AdWords to iPhone & high end mobile devices (which currently includes Android devices), you can create a new segment for iPhone & Android.
From the Advanced Segments drop-down, click on "Create a new advanced segment", and create a segment with 2 criteria. Drag "Operating System" under the "Systems" dimension into the target area with the dotted-line border, and type "iPhone" into the "Value" field. Click "Add 'or' statement" to get a second target area, and do the same for Android. Then, you can name your segment "High-end mobile" and see that traffic in Analytics.
Happy Tuesday, and Happy Segmenting!


15 comments:
Eivind said...
Although iPhone according to my statistic (and other statistics I've seen) is the most used phone on the web, are you planning on create a segmentent handling all/most mobile phones?
Not all mobile phones can be identified for their operating system. For example, the operating system for Opera Mini users are reported as (not set).
The solution I have made is to create a custom segment where I use screen size as one factor (up to 800x480), and then exclude operating systems and versions that I know aren't mobile phones. I hope you can come up with something better.
I have written a blog post about my solution, but it's in Norwegian so I don't know it's any point to link to it?
Anyway, I really like the improvements you are adding to GA.
12:54 PM
obamath said...
it s a good improvement. google is always renoving I like it and i will try it in my blog.
1:16 PM
obamath said...
yes i have tried the opera mini and found that the operating system for Opera Mini users are reported as (not set).
1:44 PM
Ola Johansson said...
Yea, why not do a segment for all mobile devices?
2:51 PM
Chrix Finne said...
Thanks for your comments!
Why didn't we do a segment for all mobile devices? Currently, not all mobile devices can be tracked with Google Analytics, so GA can't report on "traffic from all mobile phones" reliably. We value accuracy and transparency!
If you want, you can follow the instructions in the blog post and set up additional Advanced Segments for other phone platforms that do support the Analytics JavaScript: Android, some versions of Opera, and my favorite, the Playstation Portable. You can even combine them with "or" statements if you'd like. This is a great example of why Advanced Segmentation is so powerful!
4:24 PM
nizu said...
..or you can work on screen resolutions like bryson meunier suggests
8:52 AM
Eivind said...
@ KamalChandran I do something similar as Bryson Meunier suggest. However, from what I can see from his regular expression, the screen resolution isn't covering newer mobile phones. Some mobile phones now have screen resolutions up to 800x480. This means that you can't just segment on screen resolution, some minimized screens from regular computers can also be identified as mobile phones. You therefor have to exclude known operating systems that aren't used on mobile phones.
Again, I have written an article in Norwegian how I do it. You find a Google translated version to english here (bevare, Google Translation is adding spaces in the regular expression, so look at the Norwegian version if you want to copy the expression).
11:00 AM
מ said...
what are the benfits for segmentung iphone ?
11:39 AM
chrissy9 said...
Can you create a custom report to measure iphone visit metrics to dimensions such as conversions?
6:22 AM
myadlets said...
I created a Mobile (iPhone, iPod, Android and SymbianOS) segment using the instructions given. Just use the "or" separator when adding. "and" separator will not work.
2:26 PM
Y.Emre Güzer said...
Good İmprovement, i m going to try it in my sites
10:55 PM
J2 Pulsa said...
Is there any feature of google analytics analyzing keywords and META tag?
I use anaytics in my www.j2pulsa.com
3:54 PM
leo4ever said...
Hi,
I have pages created using Google pages a.k.a Page Creator and updated the pages with Google Analytics code. When a user uses an iPhone to visit my site, the site gets optimized automatically for the mobile device. However, I don't see traffic information on my analytics pages. Does the page creator trips the analytics code, when a user visits using an iPhone.
Javid
7:19 AM
Bhagawat said...
Going to measure site performance, Go for Google Analytics with advanced features.
-Bhagawat.
5:45 AM
Ilene Jones said...
I was looking for a reliable way of seeing the iPhone/iPod Touch OS version, specifically the 3_0 part of this user agent string:
(iPhone; U CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us)
I am attempting to differentiate between the operating system versions to determine how many of my users are using the most up to date version of the operating system, which then tells me about how soon I can get with the latest and the greatest goodies in the OS.
I have attempted to create segments based on the AppleWebKit/528.x & AppleWebKit/525.x browser settings, however that does not differentiate between operating system versions like 2_2_1 and 2_1_1, which both share 525.x
I have also attempted to create segments based on the operating system version, however that does not seem to pick up the data. Considering how limited my data is, it could be that there is no data and I'm viewing false information, but I do not believe that is a true case.
Thanks in advance!
10:55 PM
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