In Google Anayltics does the iPad always report portrait orientation?

[gotomarketers]

I find I have disproportionate anount of visitors viewing at 768x1024, which coincides with the high iOS visitor rate. However, does this mean the vistors are all viewing in portrait orientation, or does the report portair regardlaess of orientation?

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Richard,

Currently all iPad's will be reported in that format. I am sure that Google will get around to changing this at some point, but for now, you can't tell orientation.

Also, unless there has been a very recent change, you aren't likely to see a different resolution either (1536x2048 for retina for example).

-Andy

[stukerr]

Hey Richard,

Yep Andy is correct - however if you are really dying to know you can always detect the orientation yourself using javascript (http://www.williammalone.com/articles/html5-javascript-ios-orientation/) then push it though as a GA custom variable (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingCustomVariables) until Google start reporting it themselves.

All the best,

Stuart

[gotomarketers]

Thanks for the info. I'll check out the orientation script, it should really help with planning design changes