Google Analytics recently added a new Treemaps feature to Acquisition Reports as part of the March 30, 2015 Google Analytics update. Treemaps are a very useful way to understand how traffic arrives to your website. You can find Google Analytics Treemaps under: Acquisition > All Traffic > Treemaps So what …
Referrer spam is becoming more and more of a problem in Google Analytics. Referrer spam, sometimes known as referrer bombing, is a technique that exploits the way Google Analytics gathers data to insert fake traffic from spam websites into your Referral reports. It corrupts your web analytics data and wastes …
In an earlier blog post we covered how to integrate your YouTube web analytics into Google Analytics. To find out who is watching your videos and how you can generate more views and interactions you can turn to YouTube Analytics. Its reports tell you who your viewers are, where they …
The Default Channel Grouping Report in Google Analytics provides a good overview of a website’s traffic sources. Intuitively, you would assume to find the sessions from Google AdWords in the channel Paid Search. But this is not correct if your AdWords ads also appear in the Display Network. In this …
Omar Moling of 42matters presented an “Intro to Mobile App Analytics” at the latest meeting of the Analytics Roundtable at the Amazee Metrics offices. In this introduction he covered some of the main differences and similarities between mobile app analytics and analytics. Focusing on using Google Analytics for Android apps, …
Player Analytics, a set of analytics reports for game developers, will soon come to Google Play Games. Google announced that this service will launch in the next few weeks as part of a set of new features for Google Play Games and Admob. Player Analytics will help developers better understand …
Both Google AdWords and Google Analytics gather a lot of data on the performance of your AdWords campaigns. By combining these tools you get deeper understanding of your ads. With Google Analytics, you are able to see what visitors do after the clicked on your AdWords ad. Google has published …
Google Analytics recently announced the introduction of the Query Word Count dimension in Google Analytics AdWords reports. This allows you to segment AdWords Search Queries by the number of words in the query. This way you can easily see how short queries with only a few keywords perform differently …
User Engagement Metrics measure what users are actually doing with your website, and how. Web analytics platforms like Google Analytics offer some standard engagement metrics like Average Time on Page, Session Duration, or New Users and engagement reports like the Frequency & Recency Reports. These are a good start, but …
Google Analytics is testing some new features that could be very useful to understand user behavior: Active Users and Cohort Analysis. Active Users The Active Users report shows a quick overview of the number of users that have had at least one session daily, weekly and monthly. This is …
2015 promises to be an exciting year in web analytics. Analytics tools are becoming easier to use and at the same time more powerful, allowing us to register more and more data to guide strategic decisions. Now is a good time to consider your analytics setup, so that you can …
“Dark social” is a term for traffic to your website coming from social media, but being displayed as “direct” in your analytics tool. Facebook and Twitter are trying to address the matter of misattributed traffic from social media with “link shims”. Before introducing “link shims”, it was estimated that 60% or …
