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. …
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The Five Greatest Benefits of Custom Reporting
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 …
Google Tag Manager Becomes Easier and Safer with Custom Templates
Google has recently launched a new Google Tag Manager feature, Custom Templates. This feature allows users to create new types of Tags and Variables for any other users to utilize. In this way, the custom templates can solve some problems that have arisen with GTM. Google Tag Manager, a Powerful …
How To Identify Bots in Google Tag Manager by Looking for Headless Browser Traffic
There are many ways of filtering out bots and spam traffic in Google Analytics, the most common and easiest of which is to enable Google’s built in spider and bot filter. But what about if we want to see the traffic from bots, split out in a separate view? Understandably, …
How to combine Data Sources in Google Data Studio
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 …
How To Delete Visitors in Google Analytics to be Compliant with GDPR
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 …
How to Filter Internal Traffic with Anonymized IPs in Google Analytics
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 …
How to Setup Your Google Analytics Views the Right Way
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 …
Is Google Analytics GDPR Compliant?
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 …
Google Data Studio Tutorial: Your Essential Site Speed Report
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. …
Building the Perfect Digital Marketing Dashboard
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 …
Getting Started with YouTube Analytics
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 …