Testing & Usability Articles

  • Measuring Social Media ROI With Google Analytics

    Benjamin Mangold - April 18, 2013
    Measuring Social Media Value and ROI

    This post covers best practices for ensuring you have accurate and actionable data inside Google Analytics and also step outside of the tool to complete the full picture and establish onsite and offsite metrics to help us report on our success and most importantly, drive action.

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  • 51 Tips To Succeed With Web Analytics

    Paul Koks - April 10, 2013
    Tips To Succeed With Web Analytics

    This article provides 51 tips to help professionals implement Google Analytics, configure the tool, use it to analyze online behavior and optimize websites. Sit down and relax, here we go!

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  • Guide To Google Analytics User Permissions

    Jordan Louis - April 2, 2013
    Google Analytics User Permissions

    In this article, we'll look at how you can wrap your head around the user permissions options on Google Analytics and offer suggestions on how to make them work for you.

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  • Google Universal Analytics For Offline Behavior

    Daniel Waisberg - March 27, 2013
    Google Universal Analytics

    This article shows how to approach an implementation of Google Universal Analytics to track offline behavior. While the focus is on the Google Analytics account design, rather than the codes necessary to make it happen, you will find links to relevant code explanations whenever necessary.

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  • Conversion Rate Optimization Maturity Model: People

    Michal Parizek - March 25, 2013
    Conversion Rate Optimization

    I consider People as a key asset of the CRO framework. The human resources behind your everyday conversion optimization activities matter the most. They drive insights, prototype and design ideas, setup tests and evaluate them when time is right. It is the glue that sticks all other pillars together and makes conversion optimization possible and effective.

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  • Google Analytics Tips & Tricks From MeasureCamp

    Doug Hall - March 18, 2013
    Google Analytics Tips & Tricks

    his article presents some of the Tips & Tricks shared by me in the MeasureCamp unconference, on a session called 'GA Tips and Tricks'. The tips are moderately advanced techniques but all approachable by anyone with reasonable JavaScript and Google Analytics (GA) skills.

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  • Clicks to Bricks - Important Lessons For Retailers

    Rod Jacka - March 5, 2013
    Online and Offline Marketing Techniques

    Like it or not, e-commerce is a fact of life for virtually all retailers, as the story I am about to tell you shows. A good website with an efficient checkout process (and good products!) are essential in any e-commerce venture; but good old-fashioned service and paying attention to details are, ultimately, what matters.

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Analytics, Statistics & The Case of the Missing Ring
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Analytics, Statistics & The Case of the Missing Ring

The web/digital analytics industry is still young, very young in the scheme of things. When compared to the discipline of statistics with hundreds of years of development, there is so much that web analytics professionals can learn.
Tips To Succeed With Web Analytics
Analytics & Optimization

51 Tips To Succeed With Web Analytics

This article provides 51 tips to help professionals implement Google Analytics, configure the tool, use it to analyze online behavior and optimize websites. Sit down and relax, here we go!
Always Keep Your Goals In Mind
Cartoons

Always Keep Your Goals In Mind [cartoon]

Nothing is simple to accomplish. That is almost a universal truth. If you want to do an analysis, buy a house, find a good university or a new job, you will need to work hard in order to have a good outcome. As Daniel Piza described in a short phrase: "All we learn in life is that the reality is complex, but the desire is simple."
Google Tag Manager
Analytics & Optimization

Google Tag Manager: A Step-By-Step Guide

This guide will walk you through the newest Google tool: the Google Tag Manager. This tool conveniently helps marketers manage tags on their sites; this will reduce errors when it comes to tag implementation, make it much faster to implement tags, and free webmasters to work on other important tasks.
Chart & Graph Types Infographic
Analytics & Optimization

Nuts and Bolts of Chart & Graph Types [infographic]

This infographic provides a quick list of the types of charts that are available for analysts/marketers out there. I do not intend to provide a comprehensive list, neither an accurate explanation of each (you will note!). But I do provide a 'tell me which graphs you use and I will tell you who you are' cheat sheet where I describe some of the personality types of people using different charts...
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