Tracking 301 to 200?

can I see redirects in GA?

[chewy]

you know the drill - site relaunch, all sorts of urls are 301 redirected to the new urls.

is there a way to know, using Google Analytics if a new page is actually directly loaded from Google, or if it was the old page that was loading in Google that then hit the redirect to load the new page?

what I want to know is will GA show me the gradual replacement of old urls with new urls ?

thanks as always!

[RhinoFish]

Depends on how you implemented your 301s. :-)
Most often, it is server side, so the orig page content, including the GA script, never loads, so you won't see the old pages report in GA.
And, because the 301 should hand off the referral headers (and the utm tags), you can't use the normally reported data for the new pages, to see if its source was G-direct or a 301-end-hop.

Side notes (only apply to pages you missed assigning a redirect to, your new 404s):
+You'll probably want to use Google Webmaster Tools to monitor 404s during a move / relaunch.
+It is possible to use Analytics for increased Analytics reporting of 404s:
[analytics.blogspot.com...]

[lucy24]

If you hadn't specified "using Google Analytics" the answer would be a straightforward yes, because the information is right there in your server logs. Look for any 301 with google as referer. If you like, you can then cross-check for an immediately following 200 request for the same page with the identical IP, UA and referer.

[chewy]

Awesome - both answers very helpful! GWMT comes in very handy as does 404 track in GA when possible.

Of course, this project is on a Microsoft server, so now I have to figure out if I can turn on the server logs.

Been a long time since I actually looked at server log files!

[chewy]

now on brandy new server, and yes, NOW we have logfiles - sometimes you just have to go old-school!