How to make google analytics track only domain without subomains?

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I have two websites:

site.com
sub.site.com

First one has google analytics and the cookies have this domain: ".site.com". What happens is that my second site get these cookies posted which is not connected at all and I don't want that. Is there a way to achieve this? I think that changing ".site.com" domain, to "site.com" will work, but I am not 100% sure nor do I know how to do this with google analytics either.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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There is actually an answer in another question, that is not the accepted one though.

We need to add this to the GA code:

pageTracker._setDomainName("none")

This will set the cookie domain to "site.com" instead of ".site.com" and it will not be posted to subdomains.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Feb 29 '16 at 09:52

Ilya Chernomordik

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This will do nothing with the current version of Google Analytics (except possibly throwing an js error). – Eike Pierstorff Feb 29 '16 at 10:30
Not sure about the "current" one, but it works with the version that we use at least :) – Ilya Chernomordik Feb 29 '16 at 10:58
Current Version is Universal Analytics. The code version that supports above snippet is deprecated and does not support all recent features (no custom metrics and dimensions, no enhanced e-commerce etc). – Eike Pierstorff Feb 29 '16 at 11:20
@EikePierstorff ga.js is a legacy library are you sure its deprecated? – Linda Lawton - DaImTo Feb 29 '16 at 13:16

How to make google analytics track only domain without subomains?

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