How to measure iPhone traffic to your website using Google Analytics

Apple's iPhone has revolutionized mobile web browsing. But Google Analytics -- a favorite web traffic, trends, and stats-monitoring tool -- doesn't yet offer an obvious way to measure your web site's iPhone traffic.

Or does it? Here's a simple process to use Google Analytics to determine how many of your web site's visitors are using iPhones.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• a website with a Google Analytics account

1. Log into Google Analytics.

2. 
   The Visitors section

   Click on "Visitors" in the left navigation well.

3. 
   Browser Capabilities

   Click on "Browser Capabilities" to expand it.

4. 
   Screen Resolutions

   Click on "Screen Resolutions" to select it.

5. 
   Find...

   Select the "Find..." filter at the bottom, and type "396" into the search box. (396 is the height in pixels of the iPhone's web display.)

6. 

   The results displayed show your site's traffic from iPhones!

[lebendig]

on 7/26/2009 thanks for this very nice piece of information :-)

[ezyas123]

on 7/13/2009 Excellent info, thanks for sharing!

[Wemmick]

on 11/25/2008 Awesome article, thanks!