Discover the strengths and weaknesses of GA4 and Piano Analytics to make an informed decision for your business. In the digital age, analytics has become a crucial aspect of every business. As the saying goes, “you can’t improve what you can’t measure.” With a vast array of analytics tools available …
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Adobe Analytics: Pros and Cons of a Powerful Tool
Adobe Analytics is an analytical tool that gives you valuable insights into your website visitors’ behavior. It provides a variety of metrics, based on an extensive measurement framework, and takes into account website traffic, engagement, and sales. It is designed to help you answer questions related to user location and …
The new Swiss Data Protection Law comes into effect in September 2023
If you are actively involved in online marketing and web analytics in Switzerland, you should certainly be preparing for the new Swiss data protection law, which will come into effect in September 2023. As a reminder of this important date, we have summarized the most important information for you: The …
Understanding Viewport Tracking: An Alternative to Scroll Tracking for Website Analytics
As website owners and managers, understanding how users interact with our webpages is essential to improving user engagement and driving conversions. Traditionally, scroll tracking has been a popular method of monitoring user behavior, but a newer alternative is gaining popularity: viewport tracking. What is viewport tracking? Viewport tracking is a …
Google BigQuery – When Google Analytics Reports Are Not Enough
In one of our articles, we already mentioned the advantages of using BigQuery to get complete access to your data compared with the GA4 interface. In this article, we propose to touch on another case in which BigQuery gives odds to GA4 – this is the use of data to …
Google Analytics 4 & Looker Studio: Latest Releases
Google Analytics 4 and Looker Studio are still evolving. Keeping up with all of the new features can be challenging so we have summarized the latest updates that we think you should know: Google has announced, there will be automatically created GA4 properties for all accounts that do not have …
Analytics Monitoring – Stay Informed at All Times With Custom Alerts
What are Custom Alerts, what are they used for, and what are the benefits of a professionally set up Analytics Monitoring? At Advance Metrics, we set up the individualized Custom Alerts for our clients and use Analytics Monitoring to monitor the smooth operation of your tracking setup. What are …
Use Google Analytics with Server-Side Tracking to Make it Compliant
Google Analytics has been under a lot of criticism in recent months. Several data protection authorities such as the Austrian, French, Dutch, Italian and Danish have now classified Google Analytics as non-compliant with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We explain what this means and whether Google Analytics can …
Use templr.pro to create beautiful Looker Studio Dashboards
What is templr.pro? Templr.pro describes their tool as the following: “Templr is a community component that loads within Google Data Studio and allows anyone to create custom visualizations using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and simple templating syntax. It’s incredibly easier and faster to use templr.pro than Google Cloud SDK, and you …
Google Data Studio becomes Looker Studio
The data visualization tool Google Data Studio has been renamed Looker Studio. Many of the functionalities remain, however through the announcement of the Looker Studio Pro tier, some functions will certainly be subject to a subscription fee. Google itself writes about the rebranding: “Data Studio is now Looker Studio. With …
2023: Google Analytics 4 and the new Swiss Data Protection Act are on their way
If you are actively involved in online marketing in Switzerland, this upcoming year will bring some major changes. You should keep these two events saved in your calendars: July 1st 2023: Google will replace Universal Analytics with Google Analytics 4. September 1st 2023 the new Swiss Data Protection Act comes …
Google Analytics 4: Status Update
Since our latest news on Google Analytics 4 and Data Retention in GA4 there has been a lot of developments in the world of Google Analytics. Below, you will find the most important updates and announcements by Google about their analytics tool. Google Analytics 4 can now be linked to …