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Looking at Funnel Data Incorrectly…

“Over the past 7 days, 58% of users clicked X, 88% of those users checked in = don’t remove X!”   This is part of a tweet I recently read. I’m sure the guy who tweeted this knows what he is talking about. I, on the other hand, have no idea what X means. This[…]

_setCampValues for Google Analytics

A few months ago I published a post about setting GA campaign tracking using JavaScript, offering a detailed explanation of the problem (the fact Google Analytics does not provide a way for setting campaign tracking information using JavaScript), together with a solution for overcoming this problem (implementing extra JavaScript coding).   Many people have since[…]

SharePoint Governance

Governance is an important part of every SharePoint deployment. Like most things, a portal has its rules; what is allowed, and what isn’t. If there are no rules there’s chaos, and as most know, SharePoint can be a pretty chaotic place in and of itself. This is why we need to have a clear governance[…]

Tracking Real Funnels: Mixpanel vs. KISSmetrics vs. Google Analytics

Over the past few weeks I have been trying to figure out how to track funnels where the order of the steps is relevant and the conversion can happen over more than one visit. During my research I came across a great post by Arthur Klepchukov. In his post, Arthur Klepchukov compares three tools: Mixpanel[…]

Explore and Analyze Multi-Visit Funnels Using Google Analytics

Tracking funnels in Google Analytics – Part V The last few posts discussed the issues of tracking a multi visit funnel where the order of events is important. I talked about solutions that exist on top of Google Analytics and described my solution for tracking, exploring and analyzing “real” funnels using Google Analytics, without the[…]

Exploring Funnels

Tracking funnels in Google Analytics – Part IV   In my previous post, I described how I use Google Analytics for tracking multi-visit/session funnels when the order of the events/steps is significant. The solution is a small JavaScript code that stores the information about the navigation path in a custom variable. It does so in[…]

Tracking Chronological and Multi-Visit Funnels

Tracking funnels in Google Analytics – Part III In my last two posts I described my research for finding the best way for tracking and presenting funnels in Google Analytics. I found that the current options provided by GA, and additional solutions such as John’s solution – which is excellent, do not address two major[…]

Goals are not actually steps in a funnel…

Tracking funnels in Google Analytics – Part II   In my last post, I wrote about researching the best ways to track and present chronological and multi-visit funnels for my site. In this post, I will show you what happens when I implement John’s solution on a few basic funnels.   For my test, I[…]

Chronological and Multi-Visit Funnels

Tracking funnels in Google Analytics – Part I I had been looking for a way to achieve a real funnel tracking for quite some time now. When I say “real funnel” I mean a funnel that can deal with having more than one visit per average user prior to completion/conversion (a.k.a. Multi-Visit), especially when the[…]