First, the list of referring sites treat as organic search results has been updat (available here ssupport ?hl=pl ). Others that we want to treat as search engines, of course, can still be add at the Service level in the Administration section under the path Tracking Information > Free Search Sources. However, it may turn out that it will be necessary to update the existing lists by removing the search parameters from the addresses plac on them. Secondly, Chrome version information will be limit - we will only see its major version number. Thirdly - and most importantly - if we use the Google Analytics tracking code.
In the ga version (regard as archaic for some time), organic traffic will not fall into the Organic section in the Channels report. We will see it in the Referral section with automatic channel Japan WhatsApp Number List grouping. This will definitely make it difficult to analyze traffic on the website - especially for people who do not use the tool on a daily basis and are not proficient in it. This is another reason to migrate from the version of the tracking code that went out of use in and replac it with analytics, if we haven't already. The oldest version of tracking does not support many other features of Google Analytics, such as referral list or enhanc ecommerce data.
Why does the Chrome update have such a big impact on analytics? Chrome has been the leader among browsers us by Polish Internet users for several years now. According to research conduct by Gemius . % of us in chrome gemius Source Gemius For comparison, Chrome is us by . % of desktop users and . % of mobile users worldwide ( source gs.statcounter ). According to data collect by Gemius, the most up-to-date version of Chrome .x, available in August , generat a total of . % of traffic on the Polish Internet. chrome gemius Source Gemius We don't have data on the browser version yet, but the above data already shows that the changes will affect the majority of people using the Internet.