Universal Analytics

Thinking it’s time to earn that prestigious Google Analytics certification? Well, before you spend a lot of time studying, read along to understand what to expect. You probably want to know how hard the exam is and how much work it will take to pass. And if you do pass the exam, what’s the value of […]

Where do IP addresses factor into the world of Google Analytics? The answer to this question is both complicated and straightforward at the same time. Google collects IP addresses from your website visitors whenever you send a hit to their systems (think each time a page finishes loading). That means every Google Analytics hit from your

Let’s talk about bot traffic in Google Analytics. Most of the time, bot traffic in our analytics data gets a bad name. We think of it as spam, but there are good bots too. Whether or not you welcome them, 99% of the time you don’t want to see bot traffic in your analytics reports. 

Google Analytics is an online-only tracking tool. True or False? The answer is… False.   Well, mostly false. Google Analytics can track any visit to your website, even if it comes from offline promotions and advertising. As long as your offline advertising triggers someone to visit a website, Google Analytics can track it! You can use

GOOGLE SIGNALS Cross-Device tracking with a little machine learning mixed in Google Signals is a built-in Google Analytics (GA) feature that allows you to enable automatic cross-device tracking. You need to give permission to Google to collect data from users who interact on your site with different devices. From then onwards, you will also get

The majority of businesses measure the impact of their marketing efforts by producing reports that highlight the performance of their growth initiatives. Over time, every business reaches the natural conclusion that the only way to understand whether their marketing is driving results is to put some numbers behind their assumptions. Some companies will build bare-bones