Analytics

Making sense out of web stats.

Testing Your Journal

Posted on: Thursday, March 11th, 2010 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

Keep notes on changes made. I made a change to my site that I believe was a rock solid good idea. It turned out to be a dud, having a negative impact on my site.

Did You Get Google Annotations Yet?

Posted on: Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 in: Analytics

It appears Google Analytics now supports annotations for all accounts. At least for mine.

Annotations on Google Analytics

Posted on: Thursday, January 14th, 2010 in: Analytics, BWI, Software

Google is now slowly releasing the Annotations feature for their analytics.

Top Ten Blog Posts for 2009 on BWI

Posted on: Thursday, December 24th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

A list of the top ten posts for the year 2009.

My Goal for 2010 is to Increase Goals

Posted on: Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 in: Analytics, Code, Software

How and why, you should use Google Analytics Goal feature. It’s time to set some goals for the new year.

How I Increased Traffic Over the Past Three Months

Posted on: Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI

If you are trying to get more traffic for you website, and the numbers just don’t seem to be going up lately, start experimenting with new sources.

How Google Analytics Can Reveal Keyword Title Ideas

Posted on: Monday, December 14th, 2009 in: Analytics

Using Google Analytics to help pick keywords to be used in your blog post titles.

Feed Compare – Compare Your Feedburner Numbers

Posted on: Friday, December 4th, 2009 in: Analytics, Software

Feed Compare plots graphs comparing Feedburner accounts. They don’t even have to be your account.

Webmaster Tools Site Performance – A New Cool Tool

Posted on: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 in: Analytics, Software, Usability & Design

Google’s Webmaster Tools unleashed Site Performance, found under Labs, to help you improve you websites load time.

Six Custom Advanced Segments I Like to Use with Google Analytics

Posted on: Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 in: Analytics, Software

Six Custom Advanced Segments I Like to Use with Google Analytics, the minus Stumbleupon traffic one is my favorite.

Turkey Day Web Traffic

Posted on: Monday, November 23rd, 2009 in: Analytics

A look at web traffic for Thanksgiving using Google Analytics benchmark. Gaming type sites seemed to do the best in 2008.

Tags Show What Visitors Like

Posted on: Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

How Post Tags can indicate what your readers would like to see more of.

Manage Intelligence Alerts with Google Analytics

Posted on: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 in: Analytics, Software

Manage Intelligence Alerts with Google Analytics

How to Use Google Analytics to Track Your Email Campaigns

Posted on: Monday, October 26th, 2009 in: Analytics, Software

Tip on how to use advanced segments to track your email campaigns. Includes links to Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Mail segments.

A Years Worth of Data Says My Content is King

Posted on: Friday, October 16th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI

Comparing the this year to last I find search engines to be the best source of traffic, and content truly is king.

Google’s Pivot Option Makes Top Content More Revealing

Posted on: Thursday, October 15th, 2009 in: Analytics, Software

Review of Google’s new pivot function in Google Analytics, and how it reveal detailed information very quickly.

Is It All About the Home Page?

Posted on: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

Reviewing the value of the home page for websites.

Average Page Views Down?

Posted on: Friday, October 2nd, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI

Here is what I did to increase the average page views on my site, my expectations, and the apparent outcome.

Moving Google Analytics Code

Posted on: Friday, September 25th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Code

Moving Google Analytics code to top of site makes little to zero difference.

Tampering With Status Quo

Posted on: Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

How over analyzing analytics can give you the wrong idea. Step back, and see what is really going on.