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: Tracking across synced devices How is a visit treated in Google Analytics when you move across synced devices? As a new visit or is the cookie shared, keeping the session alive? For example,

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How is a visit treated in Google Analytics when you move across synced devices? As a new visit or is the cookie shared, keeping the session alive?

For example, Chrome's tab syncing feature or iCloud Tabs ...

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@Angela700

By default, I believe Google Analytics' cookie configuration would track each visit on each device, from the same user, as separate visits but with a few modifications to your tracking code, you can effectively measure cross-device...


Upgrade to Universal tracking in GA if you haven't already done so.
Add an if statement to check if current visitor is authenticated (like below).

{Edit: It appears I cannot add code in the same way you can on SO so please refer to the link below.}


You can learn more on implementing this with the guide used as per above over at True Social Metrics.

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