Standardize your UTM Tags with our Free UTM Builder

Standardized UTM tracking

What are UTM tags? UTM tags allow you to measure the success of any marketing campaign that drives visitors to your website. They rely on adding specific parameters to links to your website. This blog post looks specifically at campaign tagging in Google Analytics, although the same principles apply to …

Five commonly misunderstood Google Analytics metrics

Misunderstood GA Metrics

Some Google Analytics metrics confuse the world of online marketing and are often misinterpreted. This article clarifies these and explains precisely how the individual values are calculated and how they should be interpreted. 1. Average time on page / Average Session Duration Google Analytics calculates the time spent on a …

Gaining Important Insights with Site Search in Google Analytics

Search Keyboard

The search function on a website is a win-win situation: your users find their way around your site faster, and you can derive essential insights from the search terms. To analyze search input from internal website searches, you can use the Site Search Report in Google Analytics. In the following, …

Google Analytics 4: What You Should Know Now

Analytics

Google Analytics 4 was launched on 14th October 2020, as the next generation of Google Analytics, where cross-platform and cross-device tracking allows to unify all data in one central location, the new Google Analytics 4 property. Within this new Google Analytics property, datastreams can be configured from one or all …

Why Klipfolio is our Favorite Dashboarding Tool

Klipfolio Dashboards

Dashboards are helpful tools for monitoring the performance of your online marketing campaigns. This fact is especially true in online marketing, where it’s easy to lose track of the vast amount of digital data. Below, we’ll introduce you to one of our most popular dashboarding tools – Klipfolio. What Is …

Funnel analysis: The be-all and end-all of conversion optimization.

Conversion-Funnel

Gaining conversions out of marketing activities is a big goal for most companies – that’s clear. However, often, what is unclear, is how prospects become customers (or don’t). In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the journey is the goal with regards to customers. Therefore, the path to …

iOS 14 Privacy Update – Just Data Loss and Tracking Issues?

iPhone with new Privacy Reminder pop-up open

Apple iOS 14 is here – and now a privacy update for all compatible iPhones and iPads is supposed to follow soon. Even before the roll-out, this update is already causing a stir and many questions have come up. We explain why this update is so controversial and how it …

The New Google Analytics Has Arrived

The new version of Google Analytics has been launched. On the 14th of October 2020, the Google Analytics team announced that the App and Web property has been rebranded as Google Analytics 4 and will be the new version of Google Analytics going forward. This is a major step in …

Is Cookieless Tracking the Future of Web Analytics?

Drawing of a laptop with windows representing privacy, a magnifying glass, people and chocolate chip cookies are around the laptop.

To comply with new privacy legislations, like GDPR and the Swiss DPA,  and to be in line with the now global focus on online privacy, many browsers have started to limit or completely block the setting of cookies. We recently wrote a blog post about this. Additionally, even if the …