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Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager
1 minute
_gid
ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity
24 hours
_ga_
ID used to identify users
2 years
_gali
Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked
30 seconds
_ga
ID used to identify users
2 years
__utmx
Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test.
18 months
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2 years after last activity
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Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server
6 months after last activity
__utmc
Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session.
End of session (browser)
__utmb
Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server.
30 minutes after last activity
__utmt
Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests
10 minutes
__utma
ID used to identify users and sessions
2 years after last activity
_gac_
Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together.
90 days
I'm reading several review books this week.
Confessions of a Jewish Skeptic by Sarahbeth Caplin
Sunshine Beach by Wendy Wax
Quest for the Red Sapphire by Rival Gates.
Gerry Boyle, Once Burned (a Jack McMorrow book)
Tom Piazza, Blues and Trouble (short stories)
Mike Resnick, ed., Return of the Dinosaurs (SF stories)
CORNERED, a 1960 Dell First Edition by James McKimmey.
I am reading Bloodroot by Cynthia Riggs. Not as good as the earlier Victoria Trumbull mysteries. I really like the setting of Martha's Vineyard as well as the 92 year old sleuth.
Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles by A.L. Herbert
I'm hoping to finish up Murder Most Fowl by Edith Maxwell.
I am reading Four and Twenty Blackbids by Cherie Priest. I am on a bit of a fantasy/sf kick. It is really good!
It's always fun to see what everyone is reading. Bill's usually really an older mystery. I always like to see what collection Jeff is reading. It's mixed for all the rest of us. Thank you!
The Skipper's Dog's Name Is Stalin by David Black. It's the story of a British sailor on a French Submarine during WWII.
Interesting title, Glen.
I'm on book overload this week. I'm still reading Jerry Eckert's memoir "Weeping Kings & Wild Boars," have Juan Williams' "We the People" checked out of the library in print, and just got "The Martian" off hold at the library on my tablet. And I don't have any time to read until this weekend.
I have read some of the best things lately!
Including an ARC of the new Louise Penny (swoonworthy).
I'm also devouring the J. D. Robb books which I ignored for years 'cause I didn't think they were my cup of tea. Pfft. Suffice to say I was wrong.