Google Data Studio is Google’s free dashboarding tool that is making it incredibly easy to create useful and visually appealing dashboards. If you are unfamiliar with Google Data Studio, take a look at this blog post on how to get started with your first dashboard. One of the few disadvantages …
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 …
The speed at which users are able to access the various pages on your website can have a large impact on their experience. Users that are able to access your content quickly are more likely to engage with it and ultimately convert to a paying customer or a frequent visitor. …
With the amount of data that is associated with digital marketing, it is easy to get overwhelmed – especially for non-digital team members. It is therefore becoming increasingly important to visualize this data in an easily readable way that everyone is able to understand. The Digital Marketing Dashboard! Before we …
I really do not need to start this blog post off with a description of YouTube. Everyone knows what YouTube is and how it functions. From cat videos to branded content to teen-vlogging, everyone has some exposure to the world’s most famous video platform. I am sure anyone reading this …
Dashboards are extremely useful tools for keeping track of your online marketing performance. This is especially true for online marketing, where it is easy to become overwhelmed with the large amount of available data. What are Dashboarding Tools used for? Before we look at why dashboarding tools are used, it …
Earlier this year Google announced an unrestricted free version of their reporting and visualization tool, Google Data Studio. Data Studio allows you to create informative and attractive reports from your data. These reports can easily be built and customized from a growing set of data sources. In this blog we …
Google Data Studio is Google’s new data reporting and visualization tool. It allows you to build beautiful reports to show data from several different sources. This data can be displayed using a large set of graphs, charts, tables and other visualization elements. In this post we will show you how …
Whether you are creating a new analytics implementation or trying to solve a problem with an existing one; testing and debugging is a vital part of the digital analytics process. It can be difficult at times to do this testing using just your analytics tool. Normal traffic to your site …