Category: Web Analytics
Excellent Analytics Tip #18: Make Love To Your Direct Traffic
The reason Direct traffic is a beloved of mine is that it represents (checkout the sweet contextual – red and green – numbers above): ...
Continue Reading
End of Dumb Tables in Web Analytics Tools! Hello: Weighted Sort
long tail of data in web analytics. Tens of thousands of rows of keywords in the Search Report (even for this small blog!). Hundreds ...
Continue Reading
Qualitative Web Analytics: Heuristic Evaluations Rock!
Web Analytics 2.0 knows that awesomeness comes not from answering just the “What” question but from also answering the “Why” question. What comes from ...
Continue Reading
Win Big With Web Analytics: Eliminate Data & Eschew Fake Proxies
Bounces. Ok doing just that is lame. But still that’s not all of it. It might shock you that the hard nut is not ...
Continue Reading
5 + 4 Actionable Tips To Kick Web Data Analysis Up A Notch, Or Two
All my experience in these things suggests that it is dangerous to think that the Conversions column is representative of the final outcome. Here ...
Continue Reading
Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions
10/90 rule of investment in web analytics. I had created the rule many years ago, early into my job at Intuit, and quite simply ...
Continue Reading
Win With Web Metrics: Ensure A Clear Line Of Sight To Net Income!
Economic Value. If you have implementing analytics tools, next shiny object. My recommendation has been: 1. Identify your Micro Conversions. 4. Compute the Economic ...
Continue Reading
Identify The Known Unknowns: Leverage Analytics Custom Alerts
Analytics Becomes Intelligent. Hello Insights!] I believe that actions taken based on web analytics data dramatically increase when we shift from our obsession with ...
Continue Reading
Online Marketing Still A Faith Based Initiative. Why? What’s The Fix?
puke and leave! You can measure every facet of success (demographic and psychographic targeting. Leverage powerful metrics like Brand Perception, Size of Second Level ...
Continue Reading
Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die, There Is No Try!
Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), don’t allow you to do on the fly ...
Continue Reading
Analyze This: 5 Rules For Awesome Impromptu Web Analysis
Interviewing Tip: Stress Test Critical Thinking. Please). They also help you understand if someone really grasps key concepts. Recently on behalf of Market Motive, ...
Continue Reading
Web Analytics 101: Definitions: Goals, Metrics, KPIs, Dimensions, Targets
Micro Conversions and Economic Value. Your company leadership (small business or fortune 100) will help you identify business objectives for your online existence. Beg, ...
Continue Reading

Avinash Kaushik
Bestselling Author, Analytics
Chief Strategy Officer, HMM

My Weekly Newsletter
Grab bleeding-edge Marketing, Analytics, and Strategy to outsmart AI disruption.

Web Analytics 2.0
Learn to prioritize customer-centric, multi-channel analysis and experimentation over simple data reporting.
Select Your Language

Web Analytics: An Hour A Day
Learn to focus on actionable insights and cultural change rather than just tracking data.
Select Your Language
