David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 20, 2009

All web analytics tools have a smattering of metrics and key performance indicators that were created just because someone decided it would be cute to add / subtract / multiply / divide some numbers. You can learn a lot more about Visits and Unique Visitors in this post: Standard Metrics Revisited: #1: Visitors. Guess what?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views. This hurts my feelings!

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

any real-world engineering project ;-). App-specific metrics. Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. Poor man’s analytics with bash. If people find this useful, I’ll try to come up with more tips and write a part 2.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The search queries by these users would hence be encrypted and not available to website owners via web analytics tools such as Omniture, WebTrends, Open Stats, Google Analytics etc. Most analytics vendors, including Google Analytics, reacted immediately to the change in order help us quantify the impact of this change in multiple ways.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

99.9996253% of Web Analytics reports produced are utterly useless. partly because they are out of the box standard reports that web analytics vendors create for “average” people (and we both know that you are not average!), Here’s a blog post: 3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports. Maybe not yet.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? " ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. Image source ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There are more mistruths and F U D about Web analytics out there than I think is reasonable. Web Analytics, this beautiful child, was born just the other day in the midst of tumultuous times, quite literally, when everything changes every day. Here are ten web analytics ground truths… 1. Part of it fueled by Vendors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. “Individuals and small companies wanted analytics, they wanted to know what was happening in social media [for their content], they wanted ad removal and lead gen.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Web Analytics usually simply helps us understand the “What” Clickstream data typically does not tell us why something happened. Since many of us in the Web Analytics community don’t have optimal awareness of this methodology we’ll go into some detail about how lab usability tests are conducted.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Neither is an example of just site analytics.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

How do you coordinate the analytics setup of a web shop that sells their products all over the world—if you have to handle 10+ languages and currencies in over 80 countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? Can all data be stored within Google Analytics? .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Aggregator 73

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. Nourish yourself with the "info snacks" the tool's engineers and product managers cooked up. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Ravage all the features.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" The answer is simple: Aggregators.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 30, 2008

I wanted to point the above out purely because of a common feature of 80% of Web Analytics Dashboards, in excel with a billion tabs to look through. This is a fatal flaw because most dashboards are highly aggregated views of any KPI and are missing all the nuance and analysis (that only you as Ms. " No sirrie bob you can't.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

It’s the same for search engine marketing. We’ve had clients report SEO metrics from Adobe Analytics, while PPC metrics came from Google Analytics (because of its native integration with Google Ads). There will always be discrepancies across analytics and media platforms. SEO has a role. PPC has a role.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I have tried to find some metric that mixes Y/Y and M/M, but to no avail. Here's me comparing performance of this blog over two years for the Visitors metric: Overall happiness reigns, I think. In aggregate trends can hide insights and hence "dirty" the data. Five Rules for High Impact Web Analytics Dashboards.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The term KPI is one that I hear far more than any other in this nascent field we call Web Analytics. Explain why, hopefully you'll have rules you can apply and check if your Web Metrics are indeed KPI's! Your Web Metrics: Super Lame or Super Awesome? Key Performance Indicators! " and. well you've been there.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Of course Yahoo! All visits. Total revenue.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

The Google Analytics team announced the release of seven features today. The next stage in the metamorphosis of the popular web analytics tool. Along the way I'll share three different segments that you must have in your web analytics tool. The Google Analytics API. Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

The good news is: If you use the new Smart Stats by VWO or Optimizely’s Stats Engine , the procedures to correct for an increasing probability of error for multiple test variants are applied automatically. In test 2 you change the Recommendation engine algorithm, such that you primarily show sale articles here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

While Google Analytics is so widely used, most marketers only scratch the surface when it comes to the reports they use. Brian Massey, the Conversion Scientist : One of our more unusual Google Analytics reports is the buyer persona report. 1: Advanced Segments Based On Buyer Personas. 1: Advanced Segments Based On Buyer Personas.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 29, 2008

So much so that recently I was compelled to pen a warning post: “Engagement” Is Not A Metric, It’s An Excuse. Measuring Online Engagement: What Role Does Web Analytics Play? What aspect of customer engagement can web analytics capture? Recency of Visit : This metric speaks of the recency of our customers' last engagement.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool. So what is this mysterious metric? It is important to note that the first definition is the standard definition in tools like Google Analytics, WebTrends, Yahoo! Web Analytics, CoreMetrics etc etc etc. 2: Measure the bounce rate for your traffic sources.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A vast majority of occasions where data is presented (reports, executive dashboards, conference presentations, or just plain here's a automated emailed thingy from Google Analytics ) end up being abject failures because most of the discussion is still about the data. Yes, cost per click is metric. Don't rush. Thank you.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Competitive intelligence, the "what else", is one of the core tenets of Web Analytics 2.0. It is simply magnificent what you can do with freely available data on the web about your direct competitors, your industry segment and indeed how people behave on search engines and other websites. 4: Search Engine Data.

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