Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts practice the above principles every day in every dimension of their jobs. There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. It is that practice that I try to discern when I do job interviews.

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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? The more websites or web projects to coordinate, the more complex the handling of the data. Can all data be stored within Google Analytics? .

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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

MARCH 10, 2015

In a Q&A after a keynote a couple of years ago, I was asked: " When will traditional business analysis subsume the web analytics silo? " " My reply: " All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis! " " That was a half-cheeky reply.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 18, 2013

Web Analytics tools have become pretty feature rich, and the future promises to bring even more goodies ( Universal Analytics anyone?). This particular problem exists primarily because Analytics allows us to create custom reports. It will be critical that you are familiar with what a metric is and what a dimension is.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nose to the grind "How do I" questions: David Walizer: How do you sell the value of web analytics to a skeptical client in 30 seconds or less? For help with identifying opportunities and how to do business analysis please see this post: The Beginner's Guide to Advanced Web Data Analysis. Let's go! Paid Search.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

In the post Adil commented that he's observed that attribution modeling is missing from most web analytics dashboards. The post also shares a total of seven complete modules to your digital analytics dashboards. This is an easy module to create in Google Analytics (or any other tool).

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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. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Perform Recency, Frequency & Pan Session Analysis: Fall in Love with People not Page Views. #6. Ravage all the features.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis. In this article we’ll show you how to setup your Google Analytics to unlock actionable insights. Setting up your Google Analytics. You can read a more in-depth guide here.).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2016

I've consistently complained about a fundamental flaw in Web Analytics tools: They incentivize one night stands , rather than engagements matching customer-intent. It is just how all of the Digital Analytics tools are configured at their very core. Or, its variation Outcomes/Sessions]. For the last decade (#omg!),

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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. In small organizations there is a lot more end-to-end ownership amongst the few employees, and if something is going awry things hit the fan pretty fast. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis. As Avinash Kaushik famously wrote, “All data in aggregate is crap.” Setting Up Your Google Analytics. ” [Tweet It!]. You can read a more in-depth guide here.).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

Every indicator we have is that companies are investing more in every facet of analytics. There is an analytics ladder of awesomeness each company needs to climb, and it just takes time. 7: 25% of all analytical effort is dedicated to data visualization/enhancing data's communicative power. #6: Consulting.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. CIA also formed one of five foundational elements in my best-selling book Web Analytics 2.0. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis.

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