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Koozai_Ali : Has someone hacked Google Tag... Universal Analytics: Out of beta, into primetime. When we first introduced Universal Analytics and ran the beta trial, the number one request from our testers was for full access to all Google Analytics features and tools.

Universal Analytics: Out of beta, into primetime

Bringing Universal Analytics out of beta means that all the features, reports, and tools of Classic Analytics are now available in the product, including Remarketing and Audience reporting. We’re also gradually rolling out the User ID feature to help you better understand your customers’ full journey.

This feature shows anonymous engagement activity across different screens and visits to your site to provide a more user-centric view of your traffic, and help you build a more tailored experience for your customers as well. It will also enable new Cross Device reporting that shows how your users are interacting with your business across multiple devices. Time Zone Based Processing: Fresher, more timely data Today, all properties are processed in Pacific Standard Time.

Most desired digital marketing skills of 2014 revealed. An Introduction To Attribution Modelling With Google Analytics. Your site exists to serve a purpose and that will be to convert visitors in some form or another.

An Introduction To Attribution Modelling With Google Analytics

With an in depth knowledge of your company’s user base and working knowledge of some very handy functionality within Google Analytics, you can get closer to the type of activity that resonates with your audience in order to do make them complete more key actions. So let’s get started. Credit Where Credit Is Due – Attributing Conversions To Marketing Efforts There are likely to be several ways of considering how conversions were achieved by your marketing efforts however there are three real world conversion scenarios and we’ll start here. Attributing conversions by channelMulti-device attributionOnline to offline conversion attribution Google Analytics offers analysis of the first scenario and I will explain how to play with the reports later on. Attributing Conversions By Channel Attributing conversions by marketing channel provides you with the path to conversion labelled by visit source.

Excellent Analytics Tip #25: Decrapify Search, Social Compound Metrics. New Google Analytics Filter Fields. New Google Analytics Filter Fields Thursday, May 09, 2013 | 9:22 AM Labels: Announcements, Features One powerful feature of Google Analytics is the ability to create filters to limit and modify the traffic data that is included in a profile.

New Google Analytics Filter Fields

Custom filters can be made on specific fields of data; our users have long been asking for more data to filter, especially for mobile and social. We have listened, and are glad to announce an expanded fields list. Mobile Is a mobile deviceIs a tabletMobile brand nameMobile model nameMobile marketing nameMobile pointing methodMobile has QWERTY keyboard? Social Social networkSocial actionSocial action target Content & Traffic Hit type: (page, social, transaction, etc.)Internal search termInternal search type Audience / Users Browser sizeIP version E-commerce. How To Track Image Search In Google Analytics. (This post has been updated as of 4/5/14 to reflect refinements to the filters as well as new caveats about Chrome.)

How To Track Image Search In Google Analytics

The Internet is becoming increasingly visual but the standard Google Analytics default lumps image search traffic in with organic traffic. The problem with that is these two types of traffic have radically different behaviors. So here's a quick way for you to track image search in Google Analytics to gain insight into how images are performing for your business. The Real Story on How Google Analytics Got Started. The Real Story on How Google Analytics Got Started There’s nothing small about Google Analytics.

The Real Story on How Google Analytics Got Started

After all, it’s used by around half of the world’s most popular websites. While current startups are still dreaming of the day when they can use the phrase “market share,” Google Analytics already has the largest market share in its industry. Big Data Deep Dive Conclusion: The Future of Analytics. Big Data”s been quite the buzzword this past year, but what’s next for this most promising technology?

Big Data Deep Dive Conclusion: The Future of Analytics

In the sixth and final episode of the Big Data Deep Dive series, SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier and Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante discuss the future of Big Data with EMC TV anchor Richard Schlesinger (full video below). Vellante kicks things off by saying that in the old days, the information in an organization’s data warehouse was the “only version of the truth” available to that company’s decision makers. Big Data technologies are changing all that: mathematical analysis makes it possible to weed out bad info in a highly efficient manner. Furrier illustrates the significance of dependability in this area by pointing out that, just like everything else, bad data scales and subsequent misguided conclusions lead to errors that can easily snowball out of control.

Similarly, extracting insights from reliable sources can deliver massive improvements across the board.