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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.


Ready To See Your Stats?


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Comments: 1651

formatela In reply to ??? [2014-03-26 09:21:44 +0000 UTC]

Hi - and thanks for the reply.

I don't think DA has told anyone to go and find the free stuff elsewhere. DA has decided to not make its implementation of GA free and some people are saying that as a result they will exercise their right to go elsewhere. Personally I wish some of them would - we might stand some chance of getting this place back to being the community for artists that it was when I joined 7 years ago, instead of it being a second rate social networking site, which is what it has become. I wouldn't mind this so much if DA had strengthened its infrastructure accordingly AND, probably more importantly done something to discourage the verbally abusive attitude that seems to be becoming the norm here as it attracts more and more anti-social networkers.

I also don't think that DA doesn't like criticism - I don't see any evidence anywhere that they care one way or another about criticism.

I'm sure you will continue to moan and groan. You have the right to do so. I also have that right. We also both have the right to express criticism.

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NeptuneGate In reply to formatela [2014-03-26 23:24:37 +0000 UTC]

It was just a reaction to one of your "why" questions in the list. I didn't mean to engage you specifically, after all, we're talking about a third party here (dA).

I do agree on your other few points - there seems to be no distinction between genuine criticism and blatant verbal rape of somebody's art. The line seems to have faded recently. Everybody's a critic, everybody's an expert. God forbid you tell them they exaggerated a little bit .. (its kind of ridiculous when I see 15 year olds criticizing a paid pro-artists' work like they are talking about a 3 year old's drawing piece). There's definitely something that dA has to do about this.

The spamming thing - I'd like to get genuine mail here, from shit I either watch, or users that like to speak in private with me for XYZ reasons, not some random user, who I neither watch nor have favorited anything, getting me bombarded with chibby art, MLP, or heinous photomanips.

Art theft - They don't take it too seriously as they should be. They are in fucking /art business/ after all. Disgraceful.

Definitely the criticism thing - I just got above a big juicy post of "you don't know jack shit" from some random Mr. dA Veteran who I could swear the way he addressed me, he might as well have been one of the disgruntled staff of dA for all I know. And its because of people like that, that dA doesn't care about criticism, neither to take in consideration, nor to address it and do something about it, exactly because they have loyal users who will jump on anyone who says something even mildly critical about the website, as if its the Holy Grail. If it was indeed that, among all the art websites in the world wide web, we've lowered our standards extremely low.

Lets continue to moan, groan and whine

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formatela In reply to NeptuneGate [2014-03-28 13:00:02 +0000 UTC]

Yep. That sounds like a good plan

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UniKnight In reply to ??? [2014-03-22 01:07:10 +0000 UTC]

My sentiments exactly. Besides, I really don't care who sees my DA... 

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formatela In reply to UniKnight [2014-03-22 11:44:33 +0000 UTC]

No, me neither.

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formatela In reply to ??? [2014-03-22 00:35:27 +0000 UTC]

ALSO - Has anyone noticed that the first 4 letters of Analytics is ANAL?
I think that speaks volumes.

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UniKnight In reply to formatela [2014-03-22 01:08:57 +0000 UTC]

Well, Google has already fucked up YouTube with that abomination of a "social" site, Google+.

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Sidonie In reply to ??? [2014-03-22 00:05:07 +0000 UTC]

I've read through a few pages and haven't seen someone ask yet, how do you track favourites and watchers?  I have it all set up and it's working perfectly, but I can't seem to find any default stats or custom options to do with tracking favourites and watches like the image posted here under "Track and Analyze Your Watches and Favourites"

Thank you ^^

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micahgoulart In reply to Sidonie [2014-03-22 03:29:37 +0000 UTC]

They are under Behavior > Events.

recordit.co/jkjQBo

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Sidonie In reply to micahgoulart [2014-03-25 01:56:47 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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formatela In reply to Sidonie [2014-03-22 00:44:40 +0000 UTC]

I think I did see some mention of it in here somewhere.

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Joel-DarkStar In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 21:57:10 +0000 UTC]

this should be interesting sorry for the others though

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186lilly In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 21:48:06 +0000 UTC]

Hi ppl

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ignaciaOK In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 19:39:33 +0000 UTC]

premium member.... ok,,, nothing for the free members

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YulizieLove In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 18:20:53 +0000 UTC]

All for premium member           lol 
Im sorry   but only for they...   really  

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YulizieLove In reply to YulizieLove [2014-03-21 18:21:17 +0000 UTC]

i want be a premium member

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Joacasbar In reply to YulizieLove [2014-03-22 00:24:13 +0000 UTC]

ME TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Mezmerize4 In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 18:01:13 +0000 UTC]

me too

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KrisVlad In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 16:52:30 +0000 UTC]

I am really excited and looking forward to the Google Analytics perks.

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KrisVlad In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 16:51:58 +0000 UTC]

See how neat and clean this blog post looks?

Please, consider changing the background color for the community.

The not-neutral, gaudy, ugly green is NOT optimal for viewing variously colored images. It skews the viewers' perception. Some shade of gray or white is best. Art shows true colors and stands out best against a neutral background. I understand that the green is part of your "brand." That's fine. You can keep in the header menu and footer notes and still clean up the rest of the website.

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raberbagirl In reply to KrisVlad [2014-03-24 15:10:59 +0000 UTC]

A significant number of people are too sensitive to stark white backgrounds, so light colors make it physically easier for them to view Web pages.

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KrisVlad In reply to raberbagirl [2014-03-25 04:40:28 +0000 UTC]

1x.com/

It doesn't have to be WHITE background per se... just a neutral background.

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Drache-Disunki In reply to KrisVlad [2014-03-22 00:59:10 +0000 UTC]

no.

stop it.

white will make everyone's eyes pop out of their skulls

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KrisVlad In reply to Drache-Disunki [2014-03-22 03:19:33 +0000 UTC]

Yep, you're right! Just by reading this blog post on a white background made my eyes and your eyes pop out! OUCH! And then all those artists on Flickr, 1x, 500px, Flickr, Behance, and RedBubble? YES! Their eyes are popping out of their skulls too!

Go away.

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Drache-Disunki In reply to KrisVlad [2014-03-22 03:55:52 +0000 UTC]

listen here, smartass...

i dont even know any of those sites so i cant really aruge with ya there, im just saying, i think if the layout was white, it would be too bright and not give dA that kinda relaxed feeling, ya know .3.

free internet, welcome to it.

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KrisVlad In reply to Drache-Disunki [2014-03-22 04:52:38 +0000 UTC]

Do you live under a rock? How have you not heard of Flickr or Behance? They are art communities. Do you know how to use Google? Find them. Join them. Learn.

I am not going to "aruge" with you too, because it is a waste of energy. I requested a neutral background. Grey, dark grey, and black are all neutral colors. Light green is NOT neutral. Does it make sense now?

Jesus Christ.

1x.com/weeklytheme

^ See how nice and clean things look that way?

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Dragon21Studios In reply to KrisVlad [2014-03-21 17:02:28 +0000 UTC]

I do agree about changing the main background to a more of a neutral color that can make the art pop out, instead of the odd moss/pea green color. But I guess you can count on the app 'Stylish' to change the colors....

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KrisVlad In reply to Dragon21Studios [2014-03-21 19:56:25 +0000 UTC]

I can deal with the fugly green color. I'm more concerned about visitors and my professional presentation.

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Dragon21Studios In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 16:39:04 +0000 UTC]

Why do people complain about piracy this and that about google and dA... ITS AN OPTION!! If you want in, sign up for it. If NOT, then ignore it, Simple as that. There are some who find GA helpful, so leave them be. No one is forcing you to sign up for GA and attach your dA page to it.  I find it useful once I get my store running later on so I signed up for it. Will take a week for me to customized it to my liking. 

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formatela In reply to Dragon21Studios [2014-03-21 16:59:51 +0000 UTC]

I think people are getting uptight about this because it hasn't been explained properly. Unfortunately that seems to be a DA trait and it's one that is losing them a significant number of members.

Also it's not strictly accurate to say that it is optional. Turning it on to collect summary stats regarding visits to your page is optional. Having the data about you gathered in the first place so that it can be turned into stats  is not optional - DA has been gathering this data for a number of years.

Most people don't seem to be complaining about having the option to view summary stats. Most people seem to be complaining that data about their own activity is being gathered in the first place.

Personally I don't care one way or another. I've turned it on just to see what it does, but I probably won't ever use it because it seems like overkill. As to Google gathering data about my movements, I can't say I like it anymore than I enjoy being followed by CCTV whenever I go into one of our towns or cities, but it's a part of modern life so there isn't much we can do about it, except never go out (or in this context never use  the internet)

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Dragon21Studios In reply to formatela [2014-03-21 17:06:21 +0000 UTC]

Well technology is getting more and more advance. I rather worry about having a microchip implanted in my hand or arm rather than worry about Google.  That's way more scarier than what Google is doing now. 

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formatela In reply to Dragon21Studios [2014-03-21 18:53:33 +0000 UTC]

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kittenScientist In reply to Dragon21Studios [2014-03-21 16:51:42 +0000 UTC]

Amen to that! Thank you so  much I was just about to write this

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Dragon21Studios In reply to kittenScientist [2014-03-21 16:55:04 +0000 UTC]

yea, I read half of the comments on here and its like, ughhhh; have they not noticed that they 'dont have to sign up for it at all?' so I just had to say that.

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Stargate38 In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 13:52:12 +0000 UTC]

I have a question. When are you ever going to make this feature available to free members? I think everyone should be allowed to have it, not just the premium memberss.

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formatela In reply to Stargate38 [2014-03-21 14:46:14 +0000 UTC]

Excuse me for asking, but why do you think everyone should have it?
I'm not trying to be rude or argumentative. I'm just trying to understand why someone who hasn't actually posted any images on DA might think that this is of any benefit at all to him.

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Stargate38 In reply to formatela [2014-03-21 16:57:11 +0000 UTC]

Not just me, but everyone. I haven't posted any of my artwork because it's unfinished.

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formatela In reply to Stargate38 [2014-03-21 18:51:28 +0000 UTC]

Oh, okay. Thanks Daniel.
Good luck with your art. I look forward to seeing some

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PeeFiftyOne In reply to formatela [2014-03-23 04:30:07 +0000 UTC]

i'd say because of those of us without premium who still post art. bringing up a minority of users who don't do jack besides having a profile isn't very good counter towards letting everyone use this new feature.

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formatela In reply to PeeFiftyOne [2014-03-23 10:36:59 +0000 UTC]

I didn't bring up a minority of users. I asked a simple, polite question. I explained why I was asking the question and I received a simple, polite response that answered my question.

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PeeFiftyOne In reply to formatela [2014-03-23 19:18:00 +0000 UTC]

makes sense

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ShadowSketch91 In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 12:14:32 +0000 UTC]

where can i turn this off? Cause seriously, google has been used far too often to spy on the people, and i am not comfortable about third party relationships anyway, especially not with such a major internet party.


Another thing that bothers me is something i read before, a lot of people feel that DA is losing sight of the goal they started out with, which is letting artists come together on a global scale.

They did a magnificent job on that so far, but hooking up with Google is NOT the way to go forth.

A lot of artist are perfectly fine with being anonymous on DA as it is, and this third party stuff will change that regardless of any option or not.


you can expect a lot of things changing on DA now, as this will probably hang around for a while.

these kind of relation don't start overnight, you can bet they sat around the table discussing stuff, and with the agreement being present, they are probably going to see how well it goes for the moment....

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kittenScientist In reply to ShadowSketch91 [2014-03-21 16:50:00 +0000 UTC]

You have to turn it on first to be able to turn it off u v u don't worry, you get the tracking code my manually going onto the google analytics website and signing in

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ShadowSketch91 In reply to kittenScientist [2014-03-22 21:16:57 +0000 UTC]

thank you for the info, it's a relief to know this

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bestelix In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 10:29:42 +0000 UTC]

Is this optional? So I can opt out? Is my data submitted to and analyzed by google even if I don't want, or even if I don't have premium?

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bestelix In reply to bestelix [2014-03-21 10:35:15 +0000 UTC]

"To set up Google Analytics for your profile, you will need to allow Google Analytics to start tracking your profile"

So that made it clear

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formatela In reply to bestelix [2014-03-22 00:33:40 +0000 UTC]

Stats covering activity to your DA site is only for Premium members so unless you have Premium you can't turn it on. That's the 'To set up Google Analytics' part.

From within DA you cannot  prevent your activity (visiting other people's sites etc)  from being recorded. You don't have any control over this so , yes - your data is submitted and analysed by google even if you don't want or even if you don't have Premium.  This itself isn't new - DA have been using GA for some years to collect their own management stats. Apparently you can prevent this externally and there are some instructions within the comments on this journal .

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dirty-sole-lover In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 08:04:35 +0000 UTC]

I just blocked GA earlier today unaware of this new situation. I'm sure glad that I did.

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DisneyVillain1349 In reply to ??? [2014-03-21 07:57:53 +0000 UTC]

Flagged as Spam

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formatela In reply to DisneyVillain1349 [2014-03-21 14:43:24 +0000 UTC]

I'm not entirely happy about what DA has done or how they have done it, but I think you will find that the data is anonymous. It is summary data, but it does not identify individuals.

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