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 …
Google Analytics has a new property type. Up until now you could set up properties to track websites or Android/iOS apps. As its name implies the new App + Web Property combines tracking for both websites and apps. This allows you to combine data from all your digital touchpoints into …
In Part 1 of our updated Google Tag Manager Tutorial, we covered the tracking of outbound (external) links. If you missed it, you may want to start here. In this second part, we will walk you through the process of setting up tracking for file downloads from your website. If you …
Over the last few years, we have seen an increased focus on user privacy online with reports of the US Presidential and UK Brexit votes being heavily influenced – both legally and illegally – by user targeting on Facebook. The 2018 rollout of the EU’s GDPR laws and people’s general …
Since late 2018 Google Data Studio has added features that allow its users to create their own charts, graphs, and other visualization. These can then be shared with all other users to use as if they were built into Data Studio to begin with. This means that the ways in …
External links are links on your website that do not point to other pages on your site and users that click on them will be redirected away from the site. Often, we have no insight into exactly why someone leaves, however, we can get an idea of where they go …
Anyone running an e-commerce business should ensure that their site is performing, is always available, and is secure for the end-user. Numerous reports and dashboards can be built in Google Data Studio to support this. Google Data Studio also presents your data in an easily digestible format. Where do visitors …
Marketing dashboards are an indispensable tool for monitoring and controlling marketing activities. Instead of separate reports for each marketing channel like Organic Search, Google Ads, and Facebook Ads, the dashboard shows the most important KPIs at a glance. If you would like more information, you can see our blog post …
If you are using Google Tag Manager (GTM), Scroll Tracking can be accomplished in a few quick steps with the GTM built-in Scroll Depth Trigger making this a really simple task. Having implemented this many times over the last years, we discovered that the out-of-the-box GTM Trigger has some limitations. …
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. …
You have done the work to create a good analytics setup – but could you still be missing some data in Analytics? Conversions, for example, measured by your other systems like Google Ads show discrepancies to Analytics. And worse: Some of this missing traffic may not even be known about …
Do you struggle every month with manually updating reports? Is management asking for numbers that you cannot pull out of your data tools? If you dream about combining different data sources, to connect the dots and get deeper insights, this blog post is for you. Standard reporting can be tedious …