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How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

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Time Period Comparison in Analytics (and Why It’s Wrong). If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics. Whether because of seasonality, day of week, external factors, press, advertising, etc, data just fluctuates. How can we possibly do that?

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How Machine Learning Can Finally Solve “(direct)/(none)”

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Advertisers avoided mobile apps and browsers because user experience was, at that time, horrible. After the iPhone launched in 2007 to mass adoption, analytics were never the same. Even on one device, a cross-browser experience completely ruins web and marketing analytics as we know it now. Smartphones were rare.