Untangling the world of web analytics
There’s something new in the world of tracking: the container tag. It’s more commonly known as Tag Management. You may have heard of it over the last year or so. Very quickly this technology has spawned a number of companies and investment in this area. Some of the more well known tag management tools are [...]
As I’ve talked about before, dashboards are great for people that are focused on a specific thing. You can create a dashboard focused on mobile, one that is focused on a certain campaign, or one that is focused on social. Creating a social dashboard in Google Analytics is a lot easier now that we have [...]
Google Analytics launched a series of enhancements to the Flow Visualization reports. The enhancements include the ability to do a date comparison of the Flow Visualization report and the ability to use other types of goals in the goal flow report. You can read the announcement on the Google Analytics blog. But the biggest news, [...]
We all love social media. We all use it all the time. As analyst and marketers we’re trying to define the business value of social. But the measurement is challenging. We’re trying to change that with Google Analytics and have introduced a set of Social Media reports to help measure the value of social. I [...]
I love event tracking. If you’ve never used Google Analytics event tracking here’s what you need to know: Event tracking is a flexible, data collection mechanism that you can use to track almost anything. From video players, to mortgage calculators, to mobile apps, events are a way to collect and count visitor actions. While the [...]
Measuring time on a website can be hard. Really hard. Every web analytics tool has issues, and that includes Google Analytics. I’d like to clarify how Google Analytics track time on page and visit length. It’s probably different than you think. Understanding Engagement Hits The key to understanding Google Analytics time calculations is understanding the [...]
This is part two of a two part series on advanced content tracking. This post is about the reporting and analysis of how people interact with content. As I mentioned in part one, this technique and concept was born from collaboration. There are a number of people that need to be recognized for contributing: Nick [...]
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