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Bounce rate vs. Exit rate part one

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Many companies consider a high bounce rate an issue that needs to be addressed quickly. Others support a high bounce rate. The truth is that most people don’t understand what “bounce rate” really means.</span> So what is a Bounce rate? According to Google: Bounce Rate is the percentage of single-page sessions (i.e. sessions in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page). A better definition would be: Bounce Ra

Alex Cirstea-

GTM workspaces: how to manage multiple workspaces in Google Tag Manager

Exciting news in the world of analytics! Recently, Google has launched a new feature called Workspaces for both GTM and GTM 360 users. The goal of this new feature is to solve workflow challenges for multi-user teams working within the same container. Workspaces allow you to make changes in a specific instance of GTM, while others can work in a separate instance of the same container. Basically, when a Workspace is created, a new Container Draft is separated from the latest GTM container versi

Alex Cirstea-

Learn With Measurelab beta launch!

Measurelab already offers some of the <a href="https://www.measurelab.co.uk/training/">best in-person training around</a>, with monthly courses on <a href="https://www.measurelab.co.uk/training/google-tag-manager-training/">Google Tag Manager</a> and <a href="https://www.measurelab.co.uk/training/google-analytics-training/">Google Analytics</a>&nbsp;in London and <a href="https://www.measurelab.co.uk/training/google-analytics-training/">custom in-house training available on request</a>, but w

Adam Englebright-

The Measurelab Year of Self Betterment

As Measurelab, we have been running bi-monthly Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager training sessions up in London for nearly 18 months now. We like to keep the groups small enough (under 10) to be personable and really help each attendee out with their questions and unique&nbsp;requirements. Due to the success of these training events, we are now running them every month (see all the dates for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.measurelab.co.uktraining/google-analytics-training/">GA Training</a>&n

Daniel Perry-Reed-

Data Visualisation with Power BI

Since the recent(ish) announcement of <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/analytics/360-suite/data-studio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Data Studio 360</a>&nbsp;(Google's answer to&nbsp;Tableau), we wanted&nbsp;to&nbsp;see where Data Studio 360 will fit into the mix by trying to compare what little we currently know about it with&nbsp;other data visualisation tools that are already on the market. Fast forward a few weeks, and to cut a long story short, Microsoft Power BI

Daniel Perry-Reed-

Google Analytics 360 Suite: what it is & why it matters

So it's finally happened, Google has brought their enterprise-level analytics offerings together in one neat package: the Google Analytics 360 Suite! What they have done is re-branded Google Analytics Premium as Google Analytics 360 and Adometry as Google Attribution 360, and released 4 all new tools. What’s included in the suite: Google Audience Center 360 (beta) A data management platform (DMP) that helps understand and identify customers across channels, devices, campaigns, etc. Google

Daniel Perry-Reed-

When GA isn’t enough: beyond Google Analytics & better analytics tools

My Measurefest talk After a few nerve-wracking weeks of preparation, I did my talk about Google Analytics, the API and R yesterday afternoon at Measurefest in Brighton. I must admit, the whole thing is a bit of a blur, but I've been assured by several people (not just my friends!) that it went well, so I'll take their word for it. I was even approached by people afterwards and asked questions! (and if you were one of those people: apologies, I didn't quite get back to normal for several hours,

Adam Englebright-

We are Google Tag Manager Certified!

Measurelab is officially Google Tag Manager certified We are proud to announce that, following a rigorous testing process, Google have approved Measurelab to be certified partners for Google Tag Manager – re-affirming our position as one of the UK’s top Google Analytics consultancies, specifically when it comes to using Google Tag Manager. Why this certification matters As well as demonstrable advanced technical skills with Google Tag Manager implementations, a pre-requisite of the certifica

Mark Rochefort-

Google Tag Manager training course now available from Measurelab

Google Tag Manager training is now live Right, folks, it’s happening! Our new Google Tag Manager training workshops are now live and ready to be booked! Thank you! Thank you! It has taken a bit of thinking and planning but we’ve finally decided to go ahead with it and we’re pretty pleased with the end results. What the workshop covers We’ll take you from the very basics - what’s a tag management system and how it works - to the more techy stuff such as how to deploy different vendors and c

Juan Barros-

Top 5 GTMv2 Features

If you’re anything like me, you saw the GTM v2 update coming with an impending sense of dread. You thought “oh no, another interface that I’m going to have to get familiar with” or “oh no, a slightly different system that’ll have slightly different quirks and tics and I’ll have to spend months relearning how to use it properly, argh (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻”. Back in June when everything got auto-updated, I sent an email to one of our clients apologising for the change. But guess what? As with pretty muc

Adam Englebright-

Dara Fitzgerald: international analytics conference speaker

Dara at ADWorld experience Last week Dara was speaking at ADWorld Experience, in Bologna, about Enhanced Ecommerce in Google Analytics. On his return, Dara rather sheepishly let slip that he was awarded "Most Voted Speech" for the event. Well done, Dara! @measurelab @darafitzgerald demonstrating the wonders of enhanced ecommerce analytics #adwexp pic.twitter.com/NmwydFPqmV — Alan Coleman (@AlanCWolfgang) April 17, 2015 If you would like to book the internationally acclaimed Dara Fitzgerald

Steven Elliott-

R for analytics beginners: part 4 – building graphs and analysing data

Earlier in this series we reviewed several R libraries for Google Analytics. Then we started using RGA. Next we pulled data from Google Analytics using RGA. What now? I’m reaching for my university notes, because we’re getting into proper R territory. Diving into graphs with R Let’s start with graphs! Who doesn’t love a good graph? It just so happens there’s a lovely R library called ggplot2 that does really excellent graphs of all shapes and sizes1. We’re probably best looking at a few speci

Adam Englebright-

R for analytics beginners: part 2 – authorizing GA access

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed R briefly and explained why it might be useful for people doing analytics work. I also introduced the libraries that allow you to interface R with Google Analytics. At this point, you should have R and RStudio installed on your computer, along with the RGA package. If you have not done this yet, please return to Part 1 and complete these steps first. Next, we need to authorise the package to access our GA data. You have to go to the Google Developers Consol

Adam Englebright-

R for analytics beginners: part 1 – getting started

Two years ago, or thereabouts: I was introduced in my statistics lectures to a programming language and software environment called R. I took to it immediately, preferring it by far to the simpler software we’d used before, and also to the proprietary software (SAS, SPSS) we used in addition. Flash forward to: A couple of months ago, sitting in the audience for the talks at MeasureFest, and then we had what was, I think, by broad agreement, the best talk by Ela Osterberger, about using R with

Adam Englebright-

Google Analytics training 2015 – master your analytics skills

Join our Google Analytics training If you have ever attended one of Dara's talks or workshops, you know the allure of his beard and Irish accent. Now you can spend a full day learning from Dara (aka “Data”, yes, that name’s courtesy of predictive text). Register now for one of our Google Analytics Training days in Covent Garden, London. Google Analytics training course dates - 2015 (until June) Description Date Time Location Price Book online Standard Google Analytics Training Course

Mark Rochefort-

GAIQ: How I prepared...and passed it!

It’s been exactly a month since I started to work at Measurelab, and so far it has been an amazing experience. Much of the industry jargon and tools are starting to sound familiar and I can make tea or coffee for almost anyone in the team without having to ask how they take it. In order to celebrate the fact that I had survived for a whole month, Mark suggested me to have a go at the Google Analytics Individual Qualification, (which I did..and passed!) For those of you that are not familia

Juan Barros-

Google Analytics health check: Part 2: third week guide

Continuing the GA health check Last week, I covered the first few steps of our Google Analytics Health Check, as one of the first, and most important steps when putting together a measurement plan. To recap a bit, the main aim of a Health Check is to ensure that we are collecting the right information, filtering out any undesired data, to allow us to create actionable reports for the stakeholders that, at the same time, help them to make informed business decisions. Checking goals and funnels

Juan Barros-

Google Analytics health check – Part 1: second week guide

Diving into GA health checks Right, now that some of the basic concepts and industry jargon are starting to sound a bit more familiar, things are starting to get interesting – not that last week was boring but this week I’ve been having a go at one of the most important parts of a piece of “initial discovery” for a client: A Google Analytics Health Check. Our approach to health checks In this document, which the team creates for every single one of our clients, we run a detailed audit of the

Juan Barros-