Enhanced Ecommerce in Google Analytics: An Introduction

Enhanced Ecommerce Kaufverhaltensanalyse

In this blog post we will give you an introduction to the new Enhanced Ecommerce functionality in Google Analytics. Enhanced Ecommerce is part of Universal Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce was rolled out as one of the major improvements of Universal Analytics.  It is an improved version of the ecommerce tracking available …

New Google Analytics Treemaps

New Google Analytics Treemaps

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 …

Fighting Referrer Spam in Google Analytics

Referrer Spam in Google Analytics: Nicht draufklicken!

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 …

YouTube Analytics: Measuring the Performance of YouTube Videos

youtube analytics

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 …

Mobile Analytics at the Analytics Roundtable

Mobile Analytics at the Analytics Roundtable

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, …

Using Site Search in Google Analytics

site search

Google Analytics offers lots of reports, most of which are usable “out-of-the-box”. Site Search report allows you to analyze the search terms used with your internal search. This report lets you deduct actions for optimizing your website. If you have a search box on your website and do not use …

Player Analytics: Powerful Analytics Reports for Google Play Games

Google Play Games

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 …

How to Combine Google AdWords with Google Analytics

combining Google AdWords with Google Analytics

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 …

Piwik: Powerful, Open Source Web Analytics

Piwik Web Analyse

Over the past year Piwik, the free, open source web analytics platform, has made major steps towards its goal to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.  In January 2015, Piwik launched its latest major release, version 2.10.0, packed with features that make it a powerful rival to other web …