A collection of 11 posts
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This blog is geared toward the novice Google Analytics users who feel overwhelmed by concepts like filtering, segments and customs reports. My hope is that by the end of this post, I will be able to provide you with enough context on these concepts to give you the courage to
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Understanding how the user metric is measured in Google Analytics (GA) is a more complex process than its straightforward definition. In layman’s terms, a user, is a person who has visited a website within a reported time frame. Where this understanding gets more complex is when reporting criteria is
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An overlooked and relatively under-documented feature of Google Tag Manager (GTM) is the ability to adjust the trigger type of a pageview trigger. The reason why this capability goes unnoticed to many is because the functionality is not as intuitive as the other custom trigger settings available and it is
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UTM The acronym UTM, commonly paired with the word “parameter”, is a data tracking term associated with the process of manually tagging campaign data within Google Analytics. UTM tracking is common practice among marketers and despite heavily reliance on the feature on to understand campaign performance, very few users know
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Manually populating spreadsheets with Google Analytics data on a weekly or daily basis is a time consuming task.The typical report building format follows the uniform process of generating a custom report, exporting that data to an excel format and then pasting the values into a customized reporting format. This
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Custom campaign tracking (or utm tracking), is Google Analytics' URL tagging system that allows collected data to be properly labeled for custom reporting needs. It has been a foundational element of Google Analytics since the purchase of Urchin Software Corporation and is the only way for marketers to reliably tag
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The “Advanced Segments” feature in Google Analytics is a powerful and important tool for marketers of all levels. The ability to look at subsets of your data in an easy and extremely customizable way gives you the ability to analyze trends and audiences in the matter of minutes. The information
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E-Commerce referral attribution on Google Analytics has had a long history history of misappropriated transactions. While there are many guides out there that depend on a utm parameter to fix the problem, there is unfortunately no guide that can resolve this issue in a manner that can be applied to
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Note: This guide is for the Asynchronous version of Google Analytics and should not be used with other versions. This means that the code and methods outlined in this post will not work with the recently out-of-beta Universal Analytics version. Universal Analytics uses completely different JavaScript code and methods. Event
