Untangling the world of web analytics
Do you live in Montreal or on the East Coast of the US? Want to learn more about how to find actionable data in Google Analytics? Then join us for Google Analytics Seminars for Success in Montreal on December 8 and 9. We’ve been putting on these training events for almost a year now, and, [...]
In the past few weeks I’ve gotten a lot of questions about how to track email with Google Analytics. While I did cover the broad topic of online ad tracking in a previous series of posts, email tracking has certain nuances that I think should be addressed. The Concept Tracking email campaigns in Google Analytics [...]
I know the past week has been full of Google Analytics news, but I’m excited to tell you about something one of our team members created: Google Analytics Notes. For a long time we’ve wanted to add business data to GA to help keep track of marketing activities, industry news and GA configuration changes. These [...]
Today Google is releasing a significant update to Google Analytics. I’m not sure if it is officially version 3.0, but the amount of new functionality is extraordinary. Not to mention some nice changes to the interface to clean things up. This new release includes: * Motion Charts (a data visualization tool) * Advanced Segmentation * [...]
One part of Google Analytics that has seen very little love over the past few years is the administrative interface. Not any more! Google has rolled out a beta version of a new GA management tool that will have an immediate impact on how we set up and manage Google Analytics. When you firs log [...]
Advanced segmentation is a new feature in Google Analytics that lets you segment all data in a profile. Why is this important? We now have an incredibly powerful segmentation tool that we can use to identify which segments of our traffic are performing and which are not. This leads to more analysis on the under [...]
Following the lead of Dennis Mortensen (founder of IndexTools, Director of Insights at Yahoo!, WAA board member and all around good guy) I’ve decided to identify just how compliant GA is with these standards. Below is a list of all standards defined in the WAA metrics definitions document and GA compliance with each definition. GA [...]
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