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Premium Members can now use Google Analytics to get meaningful insight about the traffic to their deviantART Profile! Using our new Google Analytics integration, you can access comprehensive statistics about your audience, traffic, and art.
Get Deeper Insight Into Your deviantART Traffic
By enabling the feature on your profile, you can now use Google Analytics to get a better grasp on the deviantART experience that you’ve created for your audience!
- Understand what types of people are organically drawn to your work. Where do they live? How long are they on your page?
- See the impact of the marketing you do outside of deviantART. When you share your deviantART work and links in other networks and sites, you’ll be able to track the traffic back to your Journals, Gallery, Profile, and much more!
- Understand what your visitors are looking at when they’re on your Profile and even for how long! Sometimes visitor trends are unclear until you can see the bigger picture.
- Evaluate the difference in attention you get for some types of work versus others.
- See a direct correlation between your marketing activities to deviation submissions and spikes in traffic to your Journals, artwork, or Profile pages.
Learn More About Your Audience Knowing who is engaging with your Profile can help you make decisions about where to hang out, what Groups to join, and other things you might want to share with your audience.
Watch Realtime Activity Flow To Your Profile
Google's realtime reports allow you to sit back and watch activity happening on your content right this second.
View Traffic Stats For Your Content
Google Analytics allows you to dive into traffic stats for deviations, Journals, Galleries, Collections, and other areas of your Profile Page. See which deviations are the most popular today and find out where that traffic is coming from.
Track and Analyze Your Watches and Favourites
Our Google Analytics integration tracks when someone watches or adds your artwork to their favourites, allowing you to view charts and statistics of these events. How many favourites did Reddit traffic give you this week? How many new watchers did you gain last weekend after submitting your newest deviation? Did you gain more watchers this month or last month?
Favourites and Watches are available under Google Analytics' "Events" reports.
...And A Ton Of Other Reports
Here's just a sample of some of the stats you can see:
- Traffic charts, graphs, and statistics by date
- Traffic demographics (geographic locations, languages...)
- Visitor stats (new visitors, returning visitors, time spent on pages, number of pages viewed, bounce rates...)
- Top sites and social networks sending you traffic and, for some social networks, the individual posts that are linking to your content
- Search engine keywords people are using to find your Profile Page and content
Measure How Your Activity Impacts Your Audience Growth
Google Analytics can help you make decisions on how you manage your deviations. It can also allow you to see the impact of your on site activities.
- If you find that your audience is more active on certain days or times, you’ll be able to determine a schedule for posting new art or Journals.
- Perhaps you’ll find that the more you comment, the more you see your pageviews and watch list jump.
- If commenting, and critiquing others’ artwork for example, helps increase the level of activity on your Profile, perhaps you’ll decide to do this more frequently.
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Comments: 1651
Youtube was bought by Google over a year after it's inception. Not all dislike of what youtube has become stems from recent implemented features.
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I know.how else did I make a freakin YouTube account.im just saying
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I just noticed your profile pic of misery.and Its most likely DA will have that YouTube problem
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Misery is awesome!
I seriously hope not. Youtube has turned almost useless to anyone who doesn't have Google+ (aka me). If dA were to become like that... 
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2014= the year dA is going to die 4 me!
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Go away Google, shoo. Don't ruin DeviantArt the way you ruined Youtube.
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you wrote that it sucks, so I asked why.
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I just didn't think that is was good.
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oh...google's on deviantart now?
-.- greeeeeaaaaaaaat
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what the fuck? no. it's just analytics. they're just using the info from google. what the fuck is your problem?
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no, you're being silly
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I'm not a big fan of Google this and Google that other than the Google search engine, but Google Analytics is pretty sweet especially if an artist is looking to expand. Pretty freaking helpful.
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pretty much, but i'm not up for it if it shows the EXACT location of everyone that looks at your profile, because that's not cool. at all.
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Yes, but if they give you a bad review... you know where to look!
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i like your way of thinking.
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Google is everywhereeeeeee. But really, this is an awesome feature. I think it'll be very handy, much like Facebook's analytic tool for pages. I've got an art page up there and it's nice to be able and see where traffic is coming from and which posts people tend to enjoy.
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Yea, I don't care what anyone says, I like using this feature on my youtube to see where my views are coming from.
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I would like for there to be an option to not be tracked as to what I do and where I go on this site, maybe a way of turning it off per account.
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are you aware that most websites are on google analytics and you've been already tracked for years?
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I am aware, but I do not want people I personally know to always be able to track what I view of their stuff
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But they won't know that it's you. 
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Ohh... I think alot of this is what people are confused about. They're thinking it's on a personal level where their usernames are viewable as to what they look at and where they go.
We know google is tracking us, but if we have friends or enemies on here and view an image of theirs, we don't always want them to be aware of us viewing that exact image. I like being tracked to a point, but just not to a certain in-depth extent.
Perhaps release an edited disclaimer?
Thank you for clearing this up also, and even though I'm not premium atm, I can support this even as a regular user.
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Yeah, people get confused a lot in this case. They're afraid it will be like with youtube; but youtube was bought by google, while this is only a widget that most websites nowadays use. And many of them aren't even aware what kind of information google alredy has about them. D:
I also think dA should be more clear about this case - I personally was sure that this kind of news would cause panic, so I don't know why they didn't add any explanation.
For me this new option is great, because seeing what kind of deviations or places are most popular on my page will help me develope my art in future. Too bad it's only for pm.
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"I don't want to be molested!"
"Get over it - you have been molested for years already!"
"But I STILL don't want that!"
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and how does it connect to what I said? neither it's the answer to my question.
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Are you really saying that you don't get how that connects to your previous post? Okay, I'll explain myself then...
I tried to make the point (in a quite cynical manner - sorry for that) that something bad does not become irrelevant because it happens all the time. People might get used to "it", but that doesn't make it any less bad.
So to answer your question: Yes, I am aware that "tracking" is happening pretty much everywhere on the internet. It's a fact, a reality that we have to think about. But just because it DOES happen everywhere one can not deduce that it SHOULD happen everywhere.
In philosophy the problem within your argument was described under the terms of "is-ought-problem" and "naturalistic fallacy".
Here are the links to the relevant articles in wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturali…
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Oh my God, I knew you'd come with this. Did you really interprete my question in this kind of way? That's so much overreacting. Where on earth did I say it's irrelevant? Where did I claim you have to get used to that? I just POINTED OUT to that person, that turning that option off on dA won't make them untrackable on other sites, because they already have been tracked for years. I told them the fact, I didn't even mention that "philosophy" you're trying to put into my mouth. Pure information IS NOT an opinion. Go and look for an argument somewhere else.
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Hey! I wasn't "looking for an argument" - rather I was looking for a discussion concerning the topic at hand. If I came across as rude or aggressive I apologize for that: Sorry.
About people having issues being tracked here on dA:
Well, it's just that dA is not just another average site. It's a site that people care about. A site where they might spend hours on everyday. Maybe even a place they consider to something like a home? If a site like that starts tracking your moves to optimize attention, sales or whatever then that might come across as a breach of trust. Google is tracking me? I'm angry at Google. Screw Google! But if dA is tracking me? Well, I'm not going to say "Screw dA!" because I really like this site. It's just that I'd wish dA would do things differently. I'd wish they'd show a behaviour that was different form that random website you come across on the internet. Even if there was no real practical effect (because people would still be tracked everywhere else) it would be a symbolic action. "Everyone is tracking their users? Well, guess what, we are NOT doing that!" dA would get my deepest respect for that course of action.
Of course you can ask why there's such a fuss about the tracking problem right now. dA has used googleanalytics internally for quite some time and now just decided to allow the dA-(premium)-users to use the statistics that are already there. It's just that because of this possibility people have become aware of th problem and start questioning the current way that things are being done. In my opinion that is legitimate.
Some final words:
Obviously we have different opinions on this issue but lets try to keep the discussion on an objective level. It's nothing personal! We rather should try to understand each other's position and take the expressed concerns seriously. As always the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
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"Obviously we have different opinions" - but I haven't stated my opinion at all T_T I'm also not questioning that "fuss" about the tracking. I didn't say anything you're refering to. I'm not sure if I should take your words seriously if you're keep on insisting that I said something which in fact I did not. >.>
Or maybe you're just trolling me? <.<
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Ehem... first off: I am neither trolling you nor am I trying to do that. I'm trying to discuss something in an honest and sincere way.
...and indeed you DID state your opinion. 11 hours ago you wrote the following:
"Oh my God, I'm really shocked by how people are overreacting, as if already most of the internet (if not all) wasn't tracked by google."
So I assumed you actually think that people are overreacting (!) and that the expressed concerns are unwarranted (which is somewhat the definition of "overreacting"), because google is tracking them anyways (an opinion I tried to adress in my first post).
You also wrote this (also about 11 hours ago):
"Google have collected our information for years and while it is indeed dangerous, people don't understand that one more website won't change anything - because they have already been tracked by thousands of others. >.>"
I tried to answer to this by referring to my wish for a different dA-behaviour in my previous post. A symbolic action is worth something!
So it seems I keep on insisting that you said something which in fact you DID. That's because I take your words seriously and I actually took some time to read them. I'm not asking you to agree with me but I'm asking you to take my opinion as seriously as I take yours.
Or maye YOU are trolling ME?
Well, if I got your opinion wrong somehow, then I am sorry. If that is the case though: what is your opinion?
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I wouldn't expect you to *track* my other comments, lol. I referred to our conversation only and I thought that you did as well. Maybe it would be more wise to communicate that you also reviewed my other comments, because you looked to me like another person who imagine words taken out of context. (you know this kind of people, right? they think they already know what you will say, even though you didn't say a thing)
My opinion is: the fact that google collects our information is bad and may be dangerous in future, but the fact that people are seriously panicking just because dA adds another widget is stupid. Did you read their comments? They think that google is buying dA and soon it'll require g+, or that users with analytics will now track every single person individually. Compared to the serious potential problems caused by google in the future, this is just silly, because they're not aware of things they would really panic about.
There, I wrote down my opinion.
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Thank you for your opinion.
Yes, I have read a lot of their comments (I actually read a whole lot of this thread) and yes, the YouTube/dA-comparison is pretty insubstantial. I also agree with this especially: "They think that google is buying dA and soon it'll require g+, or that users with analytics will now track every single person individually. Compared to the serious potential problems caused by google in the future, this is just silly"
But not all critical posts in this thread have been like that. Some have shown an in-depth understanding of the "tracking"-problem and expressed their opinions about it. That said - I also think the widget (as a widget) is not the real problem, the real problem is dA using googleanalytics internally and therefore allowing google to collect a bunch of data on the dA-users. But,..yeah... that problem is not a new one...
Well, it's been nice talking to you and by the way I just realized we also agree on one other thing: Gravity Falls! I hope Season 2 will air sometime soon. It's one of my favourite cartoon shows.
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There's a great little app for Firefox and Chrome called "ghostery" and it will block tracking cookies like this bit of BS. I highly recommend both it and Ad Block Plus.
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it sounds like it could be good, but i like the system we already have... and im afraid that Google will try to take over dA like it did with Youtube
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deviantart is only using the info from google... what the hell
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have you used youtube before it partnered with Google? you would understand my fear
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google was bought in 2006
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