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The Dashboard of your Dreams
Progressive tracking mechanisms allow you to track virtually anything on your website. Obviously, sending all the clicks and events into…
Google Data Studio: A Step-By-Step Guide
[March 2017 update: Google Data Studio is now free for everyone globally, all features included.] This week the Google Analytics…
Creative Uses to 5 Google Analytics Features
If someone were to pull open a toolbox and pick up a hammer not knowing what it is, his simplified…
Google Analytics & Search Console: Deep Integration
Today the Google Analytics team is announcing a new, more robust, integration with Search Console. Exactly a year ago I…
Setting Up Google Analytics to Measure Content
The content you provide to your visitors can make or break your brand. At the end, the information that you…
The New Google Analytics Mobile App
Today the Google Analytics team is launching a completely revamped Mobile App, which will make your data consumption easier, faster…
Data Enthusiasts Gathering At Superweek
Last February I attended Superweek Hungary to give a presentation on data analysis and learn from other industry peers about…
Demystifying Google Analytics Direct Traffic
A common question you might ask when going through your Google Analytics data is “Where do my users come from?”…
Understanding Google Analytics Goals & Funnels
In previous discussions, I’ve addressed the need for an analytical mindset, which involves understanding things and the interrelationships between them….
Google Tag Manager: A Step-By-Step Guide
The more useful and relevant your site becomes, the worse it may actually perform. This happens because websites are continuously…
DoubleClick for Publishers & Google Analytics 360
Recently the Google Analytics team released two new integrations: DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) for Google Analytics 360 and DoubleClick Ad…
Funnel Analysis with Google Analytics Data in BigQuery
Conversion funnels are a basic concept in web analytics, and if you’ve worked with them enough, you may have gotten…
Horses, Jockeys and Digital Analytics
This post is not about horse racing but bear with me for a second (the analogy is from my Dad,…
Explaining Google Analytics to Your Boss
Opening Google Analytics for the first time can be overwhelming. Graphs and reports, never-ending menus, and configuration settings that you…
Measuring Page Velocity with Google Analytics
This article was contributed by Bill Tripple, Senior Consultant of Digital Intelligence and Alex Clemmons, Manager of Analysis & Insights,…
Bulk Analytics Configurations with Google Sheets
Google Analytics is known for its simple, turnkey approach to getting started with analyzing your traffic data. Just drop the…
Running Semi-Automated Tasks on Google Analytics
Tired of manually clicking through the Google Analytics interface to retrieve data? Want to take advantage of the Google Management…
Building a Culture of Testing and Optimization
Building a Culture of Optimization is a very important topic and something our industry as a whole is still in…
Google Analytics Art: Symmetry and Patterns
As many of you, I use Google Analytics quite a lot, and I love the visualizations and the interface in…
Measuring The Full Customer Journey
The idea of measuring the full customer journey has been around for quite a while, and we have seen solutions…
Building A Data Landscape
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.” ~ John Locke Consider your world. It is…
A Conversation on Google Analytics Integrations
Last week, during the annual Google Analytics Summit in San Francisco, I had a conversation on stage with my colleague…
A Better Way to Measure Users’ Content Engagement
A pretty common need for content-driven websites is to know how well their long-form text content engages visitors. Content is…
Building Google Analytics Powered Widgets
There is a lot of useful and interesting data held in your Google Analytics account that could be used to…
Customer Happiness with Google Analytics & FanExam
Colonoscopies are no fun. The exam is one of the most disagreeable screenings in medicine; but scientists have found a…
Using Google Analytics to Understand Your Customers
There are multiple analytics tools that excel at Customer Analytics and fill gaps in areas where Google Analytics may not…
Best Practices For Table Filters In Google Analytics
Table filters are a very powerful feature in Google Analytics. They allow you to perform deep analysis from within the…
Guide To The Google Tag Manager API
In October 2014, Google Tag Manager V2 was officially released. In the wake of this major UI and functional overhaul,…
Testing Statistical Significance On Google Analytics Data
This article walks you through GA Effect, a web application that helps you identify whether events happening on your Google…
Google Tag Manager Injector: Painless Tagging
Google Tag Manager is truly incredible. The ability to make additions or alterations to your tracking and marketing tags without…