Getting to Know the New Google Analytics Admin Interface

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

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 ...

Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking Pt. 4: Tracking Lead Gen Forms

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

One thing that I try to stress in my client work and training is that Google Analytics is a platform. If you understand the framework you can use it to track many different things. E-commerce tracking is one part of Google Analytics that is particularly flexible and can ...

Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking Pt. 2: Installation & Setup

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

This is part 2 in my series on Google Analytics e-commerce tracking. In part 1 I described, at a conceptual level, how GA e-commerce tracking works. In this post I'll get into the specifics of the code and how to install it. This isn't the most exciting stuff (that ...

Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking Pt. 1: How It Works

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

This post is the first in a series of e-commerce transaction tracking with Google Analytics. Why is e-commerce tracking important? Well, transaction data is a vital piece of information when analyzing online business performance. Sure, it's great to measure things like conversion rate, but revenue is much more tangible to many ...

Updated GA.JS Tracking Code

Monday, December 17th, 2007

I've gotten a lot of comments over the weekend about using the new ga.js code with ASP sites. It turns out that the code does not work with nested SP script tags. Also, the new tracking code that GA spits out is not XHTML compliant. These are ...