Tracking Microsoft Edge (Windows 10 browser) in Google Analytics

[UPDATE 08/25/2015: Over the past week or so I’ve noticed that Google Analytics is now reporting Windows 10 and Edge browser traffic! Whoohoo!]

The quick answer is…you can’t (yet). At least not easily, or cleanly.

But, there are a couple of thing things you can do.

1) Look for the new Microsoft Edge user agent string, which will look something like:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10136

Note: The last numbers, the part after Edge/12, will vary.

2) Compare the Windows NT traffic you were getting before Windows 10 launched to what you see now. Any increase could be signs of Windows 10 users, who are most probably using MS Edge.

3) Grab or create a custom segment. For example: http://tinyurl.com/ngua99w

4) Wait a bit for Google to catch up. (Although, I really don’t understand why they don’t already have this in place. You’d think that they would have been working with the early releases, right?)

Here are a couple of interesting articles to watch - they’ll probably update as new info comes in:

• The challenge of tracking Microsoft’s new Edge browser in Google Analytics BY KEVIN LISOTA
• Microsoft Edge browser is not detected in Google Analytics by Dmitry Klymenko
• Analytic Reporting Windows 10 and Edge Browser (from the Microsoft Community site)

Can't See the 3D Button in Firefox 11's DOM Viewer?

Yep, I had that problem too! First, go to: http://get.webgl.org/ If you get the error “…your browser seems to support webgl it is disabled or unavailable…”, here’s what fixed it for me:

• about:config
• search for webgl and make sure webgl.disabled is set to false and webgl.force-enabled is set to true
• search for devtools.tilt.force-enable and set it to true

Hope that helps you too!