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90 days
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2 years after last activity
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Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests
10 minutes
__utmb
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30 minutes 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)
__utmz
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6 months after last activity
__utmv
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2 years after last activity
__utmx
Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test.
18 months
_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
_gid
ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity
24 hours
_gat
Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager
1 minute
4 Comments
Ryan Lutes
How can I post a picture ? It’s not letting me choose a picture form my iPhone. Any help ?
Hook
Hello Ryan – Are you trying to post a report? You should be able to attach the image on our post page. If the file is over 10MB, I believe our system rejects it.
Jeremy Cox
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Francesca Gizzi
Dear Billfish Report team,
My name is Francesca, and I am a marine biologist. First of all, I would like to congratulate you on this really useful site! I would like to use some of the data reported on this site in one of the research I am conducting on Blue Marlin (of course, the webpage will be cited in the article!). To analyse the data in the best way, I need some information about data collection. For examples, how accurate is the data from the website? All the caught made on billfish are reported here, or the captains can decide whether to report the data? All the fishing boat of billfish are registered on the site and participate in the data recording? The reported values of catch and weight are an underestimation of the actual values?
Thanks a lot for your help! I hope to hear your answer soon 🙂
All the best,
Francesca
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