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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 2319

Identifying a Returning Visitor with Google Analytics

I was wondering if there was a way to identify if the users on my web page is a returning user or not using the information Google Analytics already generates.

I want to display different things for returning visitors and I know Analytics already tracks this. Is there a way to tap into this information on webpage side?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2012

Answers (2)

Sych
Sych

Reputation: 1823

Yes, you can read and parse Analytics cookies. Those cookies contain that data.

Presuming that you have a function readCookie() that returns cookie value by cookie name:

var visits = readCookie('__utma').split('.').pop() //returns number of visits
if(visits>1) {
    // Returning visitor
}

Upvotes: 8

TomFuertes
TomFuertes

Reputation: 7270

New vs Returning visits are already reported on in:

Report: Audience -> Behavior -> New vs Returning (good for high level metrics)

Advanced Segments: New Visitors or Returning Visitors (good for filtering and comparing across all metrics/reports)

Upvotes: -3

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