Analytics
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The New Google Analytics Experience
Google Analytics has a completely new look! If you haven’t checked out the new Google Analytics experience, you might need a guide to help you along the way. What’s different? Here’s one Google Analytics report that may be familiar: the Acquisitions Overview report, showing how visitors found their way to our website. We’re looking…
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Google Is Sunsetting Universal Analytics
Google Analytics is shutting down their Universal Analytics and will offer only GA4. What does this mean for you? You need to set up GA4 analytics for your website We’ve written about the new Google Analytics before, and we have set it up for all of our retainer clients. You may not have set it…
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Do You Need a Web Analytics Pro?
You definitely need web analytics if you have a website, even if you’re not ready to do anything with them. Install Google Analytics and let it quietly collect data in the background so you’ll have some data when you’re ready to make decisions. But what’s next? Do you need an analytics pro to get from…
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Time on Site
One of the metrics you can follow in Google Analytics is the amount of time visitors spend on a page at your website: time on site. What can you do with that information, though? How can you tell what’s good, whether it’s improving, and what you should do about it? Read on and we’ll show…
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Plotting Rows in Google Analytics
One of the issues with Big Data — and Google Analytics belongs in that category — is the signal-to-noise issue. It can be very hard, when you have a huge amount of data to look at, to see the important things. One of the ways that Google Analytics helps with this is by giving you…
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Who Should You Filter Out of Your Web Analytics?
It’s easy to filter people out of your Google Analytics — in other words, to choose not to count visits by some computers. Why would you want to, and whom should you filter?