Google Analytics has recently launched a real-time function which allows you to see what’s happening on your site right now! The data is only available for profiles to which you have administrator access, or for profiles which don’t have any filters applied to them, and it’s only available in the new version of GA. [...]
I’ve recently been a little stumped with some data being returned by the Omniture SiteCatalyst “% Paged Viewed” plug-in, so here’s a summary of what I found out … Tracking what % of a page your users were viewing The original Omniture supported plug-in – here’s Ben Gaines’ blog – simply returned the [...]
The visits metric is central to web analytics. However, Google has recently made a change to how it defines a visit within its Google Analytics package. Previously Google deemed a session ended when one of the following conditions was met: More than 30 minutes have elapsed between pageviews for a single visitor. At the end of [...]
Is Safari’s ‘TopSites’ feature causing havoc with your analytics data by overcounting visit related data?
An amendment to the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive will come in to force on 26th May 2011. The changes are potentially significant for owners of websites; though as the legislation seems to be pretty poorly thought through in places I suspect it will be many months until there is clear guidance on how [...]
