Category: Web Analytics – Tracking & Conversion Measurements

Google announced on Google+ that you can now easily filter out traffic from bots and spiders from showing up and being tracked in your analytics…

Last Thursday, we reported on unusual huge spike of traffic that were marked as direct traffic sources in analytics. I initially blamed Microsoft, because they are a fun target to blame (no seriously), over Internet Explorer 7 having a bug but that was…

I have been notified by several webmasters and in several discussion threads that some webmasters are noticing huge spikes in their direct traffic between July 6th and today. As each webmaster analyzed the traffic…

Google announced on Google+ that the iOS app for logging into your Google Analytics accounts and checking your analytics for your various properties is now available. It is free and works really nicely…

Google has released a new Chrome extension for in-page analytics. Daniel Waisberg of Google announced it on his blog and it is simply a quick way to see the in-page analytics of your web pages with the click of a button…

At the heels of Google and Yahoo, and Bing’s tests, Yandex, the largest Russian search engine has dropped out all search query data from the referrer. That means…

Moz announced they have a new report that helps SEOs and webmasters with the [not provided] problem. Not provided is where Google is no longer reporting keyword data in Google Analytics and other analytics products. This report aims to help a bit wit…

Scott Hendison posted on Google+ that he noticed a new goals interface to add goals within Google Analytics.

I personally do not see the new administrative interface for setting up goals…

Google Analytics has quietly changed the terminology they use within the reports to change what they call “visits” and “unique visitors.”

Now…

Remember when there was an issue with Mobile Safari passing referrer data via Google search results properly…

Danny Sullivan has the long article at Search Engine Land titled Google Reviewing “Not Provided,” Withholding Keywords From Organic But Not Paid Search Clicks…

Google Analytics is rolling out a new design for their navigation and sidebar. The new design is less bright orange and more gray/white.

Google Analytics said on Google+:

Some of you may have noticed a shiny new nav and sidebar inside of Analytics…..

Google announced this week that events and conversions in Google Analytics Real-Time reports is coming out of beta. Plus they are adding App profiles and dedicated metrics for Unique Visitors.

But what they did not tell you was they dropped the “e…

Ilya Grigorik, Google’s “Developer Advocate, Make the Web Fast and Google Chrome” shared on Google+ that Google Analytics has a new report named “Page Speed Suggestions”…

Google announced that Universal Analytics will become the default for all Google Analytics…

A savvy analytics guy named André Mafei spotted a new feature within Google Analytics and shared the news on Google+.

Google now supports the ability to share your channel grouping…

As you know, virtually all of Google’s organic search traffic query data is not provided as of this week. Webmasters, marketers and SEOs are trying to grasp this concept and figure out what to do going forward.
Making do without having this

I assume by now, you’ve all seen the news that Google has secured ALL searches leading to all their organic search query referrer data to go completely 100% not provided.
In fact, I checked this morning, and this site shows 93.4% of all Google organic …

Google announced on the Google Analytics blog that they are officially dropping support for Internet Explorer 8 users…

Daniel Waisberg, a Google Analytics expert and now a new Googler, posted on the Google Analytics Google+ profile a tip on how to set up custom alerts for increases in 404 page requests.

There is nothing worse for the user experience than to land on a …