Analytics Users by time of day How to (re)create a Users by time of day chart with Google Analytics 4 and Looker Studio
Analytics Google Analytics and GDPR - what do you need to do Google Analytics is used by over 30 million websites, including 1 in 4 of the world’s top websites. Given that you’re reading this article, I’m going to guess that one or two of those 30 million websites are websites you have something to do with. The GDPR
Analytics Why did Buffer's social referral traffic vanish? Buffer say that they lost nearly half of their social referral traffic in the last year. I’m going to do one of those annoying things and not answer the question I pose in the title. I don’t have access to Buffer’s data so I can’t give
Analytics Google Analytics: Get ready for Safari page speed data with iOS8 From version 8 of the Safari web browser the navigation timing API is supported. This marks the last of the major browsers to include support. It will also see navigation timing supported in iOS. This is a significant step forward for real user monitoring and measurement. It means that (once
Analytics How fast is your website on mobile devices? Whether you have a responsive website or not, the chances are these days that you have a significant chunk of visitors accessing your site from a mobile or over a mobile network. But how fast is your website for these mobile visitors? Google Analytics makes it pretty easy to see
Analytics Template: Choosing web/digital metrics Google Analytics is a fantastic tool. With very little effort you can bring a whole smörgåsbord of fascinating visitor statistics to the table. You can quickly discover that your bounce rate has fallen, time on site has increased, or there’s an increasing number of visitors from Germany. With most
Viewport What is my viewport size and pixel density? In recent years I’ve talked a lot about the importance of measuring the browser viewport (it’s not as big as you think). The rapid adoption of responsive web design and the launch of devices with high definition screens where a pixel is no longer a pixel have made
Analytics Web analytics: Find your graveyard pages with no visitors In web analytics we usually focus on things that have happened – visits, visitors, pageviews, events, conversions. You generally know what your most popular pages are. You probably have a good idea of the most common paths through your site. How about taking a look at what isn’t happening? No
Analytics Webbstrateg Skatteverket I’ve been self-employed now for 6 years. I’ve been a web and intranet consultant for the past 8. It’s not been often I’ve seen a job advert during that time where I’ve really thought – the person they are describing is actually me. It’s even
Analytics Google Analytics: Updated visit definition is missing visits Google updated their definition of a visit in the middle of august. I’ve written an explanation in a separate blog post. In general the change is good as it should make the data in Google Analytics easier for the layman to interpret. What isn’t so good is that
Analytics Google Analytics: what are visits? It’s all change with Visits and Google Analytics. In August 2011 Google altered when they consider a session to have ended. A small change according to their blog. Get ready, I’m going to mention some odd sounding cookie names a fair bit! In the old days Prior to
Analytics 14 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Weeks 10-12, 2011) For your reading pleasure this week, a collection of links (and summaries) including articles related to: Social media, UX, intranets, SEO and web analytics. Social Ellos at the forefront of Nordic Digital e-commerce Jesper gets all excited about Ellos and how they are dragging their shopping experience into the future.
Analytics Google Analytics: 7 things to do when you first start If you are starting out with Google Analytics for a site (or sites), then there are a few first steps you should follow. Here are 7 tips to get you up and running… 1. Create an account Make sure you sign up using a company email address, Preferably a non-personal
Analytics 12 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 8-9, 2011) This time, a collection of links (and summaries) including articles related to:Web management, UX, intranets, SEO and web analytics. Web strategy, Web management & UX Situational Design for the Web Responsive web design is all the rage, and rightly so – you can do some incredibly useful things with media
Analytics 13 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 6-7, 2011) This time, a collection of links (and summaries) including articles related to: Social media and social search, web strategy and web management, Optimisation, usability testing and Eye tracking. Social media & social search Google Search Finally Going Fully Social With Shared Twitter Links And Even Quora Data More Google (social)
Analytics Did the mobile web reach tipping point? A year ago I said that 2010 would be the year that the mobile web reached tipping point. The question is, did it? There are many ways you could measure it and we could argue all day about what is the best way to measure it. Mobile page views? smartphone
Analytics 9 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 39-41, 2010) Implementing Yammer within Your Organization Using Twitter Best Practices The featured tool in this article is Yammer, but the tactics and principles described are valid for whatever intranet collaboration tool you are rolling out. Three critical tactics according to Hanesbrands: Gain leadership support, Partner early with IT, Help employees use
Analytics Wordpress plugin: Measuring browser viewport size Previously I’ve written about the importance of browser viewport size, and also explained how you can measure the browser viewport of your visitors and store the result in Google Analytics as events. Given the 25 million sites out there running WordPress, I decided to invest a bit of time
Analytics 5 new social memetrackers Twingly Channels is a social news reader what gives you the possibility to aggregate feeds and real-time search results into a single channel where many people sharing the same interest can view, comment and vote on the content. Earlier this month Twingly opened their doors a little wider and started
Analytics 5 Articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 26, 2010) Why I Still Blog Hans Kullin asked and answered Why do I still blog? last week on his blog, this week, John Cass gives his answer. Both provide some interesting insights into the ever-evolving blogosphere. Yahoo Style Guide July 6th Yahoo will launch their book, which will cover grammar, punctuation,
Analytics 7 articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 23 2010) A twelve step process for a storming Social Media strategy Straight-forward, practical stuff. A process that isn’t complicated to follow and will give results. The first comment to the post (by Jon Buscall) is also worth reading. A Cross-cultural eye tracking study A cross-cultural eye tracking study covering 6
Analytics 11 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 19-20, 2010) Free SEO Copywriting Report Related to my SEO Checklist/SEO Guidelines for content writers Brian Clark has covered similar ground and gives some good advice in his PDF. (although ultimately it’s an advert for their automated product – Scribe) Blog Title Optimization: 6 Simple Steps for SEO Copywriters More SEO
Analytics 5 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 16, 2010) Video pollution on the web In depth paper on First Monday covering the problem of video spam (such as where users upload duplicate content, or incorrectly tag films in order to appear in popular searches) and also some possible solutions. The decline of the homepage More and more often visitors
Analytics 6 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 14, 2010) Eye Tracking and Web Usability: A Good Fit? A detailed and soba look into the neurology behind eye tracking studies and specifically it’s application to web usability testing. If you’re in Sweden/Stockholm then you can get a hands on experience of eye tracking at one of these
Analytics How to track per visit referrer with Google Analytics Prevously I wrote about how traffic sources in Google Analytics perhaps aren’t what you think, mainly due to GA’s attribution of page views, visits & visitors to the latest source. It’s not possible using out-of-the-box Google Analytics for you to see the full referring page for each
