Does preload generate pageviews etc in Google Analytics?

  • Winning34

    (@winning34)


    7 years ago

    Hi

    I was wondering if the “preload” feature registers pageviews (and other session data) on a website with Google analytics ?

    On my Google, analytics, I have ticked the box “Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders” in the view settings for the property.

    So I suppose the questions are

    1) How is the “preload crawler” identified to analytics?
    and
    2) Does analytics regognise supercache as a “bot” and therefore filter out the “preload traffic” from its data ?

    Thanks. 🙂

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  • Plugin Author Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    7 years ago

    No, Google Analytics fires when a browser that runs Javascript visits your server. The process that preloads doesn’t understand Javascript so GA won’t log any visit.

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