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 [...]
5 Google Analytics Custom Variables for Ecommerce
June 14, 2011 By 25 Comments
I believe that every business can use Google Analytics custom variables. Especially ecommerce businesses. Custom variables inject new data dimensions that are crucial for segmentation. As analysts we need to do segmentation to understand user behavior. And ecommerce sites have certain unique behaviors that are not tracked with a basic Google Analytics implementation. For those [...]
The Executive’s Guide to Google Analytics
October 12, 2010 By 27 Comments
The debate whether Google Analytics is enterprise ready is more or less dead. People have finally figured out that they should use a tool that fits their needs regardless if they have 5 employees or 50,000. If that’s a paid solution fine. If it’s a free solution fine. With that said, I’ve seen the number [...]
Adding Two Books to the Analyst’s Bookshelf
October 1, 2010 By 10 Comments
Count Me Out: GA.JS Version
April 16, 2009 By 30 Comments
A while back I wrote a post called Count Me Out! that explained how to exclude Google Analytics data based on the custom segment value. My previous post was based on the old, urchin.js tracking code, and a lot of people have been waiting for an update. It’s taken a while, but here it is. [...]
UPDATED: Integrating Google Analytics with a CRM
March 18, 2009 By 49 Comments
A while back I wrote a post about how you can integrate Google Analytics with a CRM system. That posts referenced the old urchin.js code and is in need of an update. Plus a lot of people have been asking me about different integration options and I thought it would be a good time to [...]
“Enterprise” Google Analytics
August 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Is Google Analytics an “enterprise” class analytics solution? That’s debatable, and in fact, it has already been debated. In my opinion, it depends. It depends on your analytics needs. We’ve worked with plenty of “enterprise” class organizations that were new to web analytics. They had very simple needs and GA met most of them easily. [...]
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