Untangling the world of web analytics
I’m on a roll with GA Desktop Widgets :) Another really cool feature of the new GA dashboard is Segmented Widgets. This is very similar to the Sticky Filters feature that I wrote about last week. With segmented Widgets you can add a segmented report to your dashboard. Here’s an example. I can choose a [...]
This is a pretty cool feature that most people don’t know about. I’m not really sure if it’s officially called ‘Sticky Filters’, but that’s the term I’m going to use. If you apply a filter to a report, and then add that report to a dashboard, the filter will be applied to the data in [...]
Welcome to Part 3 of Tracking Clicks with Google Analytics! Last time I discussed the process and theory behind tracking visitor click data in GA. This technique is primarily used to track non-HTML files and outbound links. In this post we’ll discuss a quicker, easier way to implement the click tracking. Please make sure you’ve [...]
Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed some quiet time during the holidays. Looking at my visitation data for the past 2 weeks it looks like many off you stayed off-line. I know I did! I’d like to take a second and thank all of you who take the time to read this blog and [...]
I’ve written about some of the most common Google Analytics configuration mistakes. But how do you know if you’ve made one of these mistakes? What can you do to insure that a profile is set up correctly after it’s collecting data? Here are a few things you can check to make sure everything is running [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the two types of Google Analytics configurations: the technical configuration and the functional configuration. I’ve been explaining the technical configuration with a series of posts called ‘Top Google Analytics Configuration Mistakes’. Now I’m finally going to tackle the functional configuration. Don’t worry; I’ve got more posts about [...]
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