In Google Analytics, there are key figures that can indicate faulty tracking or even serious problems with your website. You should, therefore, check these valuable metrics from time to time as they can show that your data is unreliable or even useless. In this article, we present five of these …
In Google Analytics you can use Treemaps to understand how traffic arrives at your website. In this tutorial, we explain how they work and how you can use them. What are Treemaps? Treemaps are a type of visualization that represents data as rectangles. Each segment of data is a rectangle. …
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) require that businesses are able to delete any data they collect about people upon request. This also includes your web analytics tools that collect your website visitors’ data. Fortunately Google Analytics recently launched a feature that makes this easy. If one of …
With one extra line of code, Google Analytics will anonymize the IP addresses of all your visitors. It does this by replacing the last octet (the last four digits) in the IP address with 0000. Why Would You Anonymize IPs? The main reason for the anonymization of IPs is to …
To get the most out of your Google Analytics data it is vital to make sure you have setup your Google Analytics views correctly. Getting the setup right means that you are seeing the most accurate data possible and that you do not lose data if something goes wrong. In …
As we get closer to 25 May, the deadline for the new EU data regulations (GDPR), more and more questions are being raised. One of these questions is how Google Analytics measures up to these new regulations. (If you are not familiar with the content of GDPR, here are useful …
It is obvious that digital analytics is a means to obtain data-driven answers to digital questions. This is because every page load, impression, click and video view is tracked and analyzed. But what about the relationship between digital platforms and the environment outside the world of digital? For example, what …
Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP is an open source initiative aimed at making it easy to present static web content on mobile devices. This means that AMP pages and their content are significantly quicker to load than other pages. News, blogs and other publishing sites are key users of AMP …
Content Grouping in Google Analytics is used to reflect the logical structure of your site. It is typically used to compare and aggregate data within groups you create. It also helps in analysis of your data, as you do not have to deal with messy URL’s, when you try and …
At the AdWords Conference in Zurich, I gave a presentation about how to create powerful remarketing lists with Google Analytics. In the first part of the presentation, I explained what remarketing is and showed the different types of remarketing. In the second part I outlined the remarketing possibilities with Google …
