Web Analytics

Dec 28, 2011

Webmaster tools information in Google Analytics

Timely summary Google about how to link your Webmaster tools account to Google Analytics. This means that in one place you can see a summary of your website’s SEO performance directly from your Google Analytics account. The SEO reports in Google Analytics appear under the Traffic Sources section in the My Site tab of Analytics. [Read more]

Oct 18, 2011

How Google Analytics can help improve the e-commerce online checkout

Amusing video from the Google Analytics team highlighting critical points in the e-commerce checkout process: highlighting all those irritating niggles about delivery, registration, anti-spam checking etc that would cause a customer to exit. As a website owner, says Google, you should strive to make your site as easy-to-use as possible for your customers. Google Analytics [Read more]

May 17, 2010

Google Analytics: 3 important metrics which define online value

Well crafted advice from Dave Chaffey about measuring “value” as opposed to raw visitor & conversion metrics.


Oct 23, 2009

Google Analytics beta version Oct 2009

As you know, Screen Pages are GAACs — Google Analytics Authorised Consultants. Last week Google hosted a four day summit at which they introduced the consultants to new features in Google Website Optimizer and Google Analytics. This post provides a very brief overview of what’s coming in the next few weeks. Some of it is [Read more]

Jan 30, 2009

Checkout buttons – a $300m decision

A single form can prevent customers from purchasing products from major e-commerce sites. “The form was simple. The fields were Email Address and Password. The buttons were Login and Register. The link was Forgot Password. It was the login form for the site. It’s a form users encounter all the time. How could they have [Read more]

Jan 08, 2009

Google Analytics help and support

As a Google Analytics Authorised Consultant, we are frequently asked for technical and implementation assistance for Google Analytics. Our own expertise is limited to the field of e-commerce and online retail websites, which have particular tracking and analytics needs and our services are limited to this domain. However, we are pleased to provide this list [Read more]


Nov 09, 2008

Google Analytics beta

We’re very excited about the latest version of Google Analytics which has a number of great new tools in it for online retailers. See Google’s anaytics blog for a summary.

Nov 04, 2008

Split test the “buy button”

We can all be amused by the concept of the “magic buy button”. Enjoy the video…

Apr 01, 2005

Web analytics packages can improve sales by 20%

Web Analytics is a new & fast-growing technology category which helps understand in detail where website visitors come from, what they look at and – in an e-commerce context – what they purchase. It’s also very technical – requiring folk to understand “log files” and “page tagging”. (See article). You know the market is real [Read more]