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Floods, Scroll Depth, Bonfire and lots of coffee: My first week at Measurelab

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It’s been, without a doubt, an unusual first week. Upon arrival to the mind-blowing <a href="https://www.measurelab.co.ukcontact/"><span class="s2">Old Candlemakers</span></a> building in central Lewes, I walked into the office to see the team running up and down trying to clean up the mess: one of the roof windows was left open during the weekend and we ended up with a meeting room that looked more like a fish pond than a place to catch-up or meet clients. Fort

Juan Barros-

GTM’s new interface: public‑beta update, API & feature changes

Things move fast in the digital world. Even more so when the might of Google is behind a product. Even so, a complete overhaul of the Google Tag Manager interface is quite a leap - considering how accustomed we have become to seeing incremental changes in product development. This morning I was using Google Tag Manager as usual, this afternoon I noticed that an import/export feature had become available. That was great news in itself, as it opens up all sorts of possibilities - for example, link

Mark Rochefort-

How to use the Google Analytics Embed API: guide & examples

When I started at Measurelab, way back in July, one of the items on my List Of Things To Do was to look into new and exciting ways of visualising data for clients. A few weeks ago I spent some time experimenting with dc.js but then, Mark and Dara went to MeasureCamp in London (I was going to go but I had other commitments) and came back bearing glad tidings of great joy for all analytics consultants, because unto Google, in the town of Mountain View, was born an API, and the angel Justin C

Adam Englebright-

Enhanced Ecommerce & Data Import - #BrightonSEO slides

On Friday the Measurelab team attended <a href="http://www.brightonseo.com/">BrightonSEO</a>&nbsp;and I did a talk on two exciting features of GA: Enhanced Ecommerce and Data Import. Here is the deck for those who are interested, as well as the Twitter feed that followed the talk. Enhanced Ecommerce & Data Import for GA - #BrightonSEO Sept 2014 from darafitzgerald The advanced Google Analytics training course was an eye opener and really helpful! thanks @darafitzgerald #BrightonSEO — Man

Dara Fitzgerald-

Key universal analytics insights: lessons for a GA transition

The conference bit of BrightonSEO is happening tomorrow, and for those who aren't going along we thought it might be nice to post the little piece I wrote for the newspapers they're distributing at the conference this year. If you are going, look out for us and say hi, and make sure to come along to Dara's talk in the afternoon! When Universal Analytics came out of beta earlier this year, many were overwhelmed by the plethora of new features. Not a day goes by without a client asking us "how do

Adam Englebright-

Adam's Analytics Adventure: Week 4

<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="http://measurelab2.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014-07-19-15.22.35-1024x768.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Went for a wander around Lewes itself over the weekend. The images aren't super-relevant, but they're quite nice. This one is down near the Priory." loading="lazy" width="1024" height="768"><figcaption>Went for a wander around Lewes itself over the weekend. The images aren't super-relevant, but they're quite nice. This on

Adam Englebright-

How to set up Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce (5 easy steps)

If you are anything like me, you will have seen the fandangled new “enhanced” e-commerce reports that are starting to become available in Google Analytics accounts (N.B. - Universal web properties only) and thought “yes, I’ll have some of that”. The reports allow for much deeper analysis of shopping behaviour - to understand things like influence of product impressions on conversion - as well as providing much anticipated refund and voucher/ affiliate code support. In the spirit of catchy blog

Mark Rochefort-

Universal Analytics is out of Beta...BrightonSEO talk (coming up)

In line with the announcement on Wednesday that Universal Analytics is <a href="http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/universal-analytics-out-of-beta-into.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">coming out of Beta</a>, I changed my upcoming talk at <a href="http://www.brightonseo.com/agenda-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BrightonSEO</a> to focus entirely on this. When I spoke at events previously about Universal Analytics, there was still a lack of parity with Class

Dara Fitzgerald-

Creating an effective Measurement Plan

When helping clients with their analytics implementations, we often run Measurement Planning workshops - bringing together stakeholders to better understand their measurement requirements. This video (part of the excellent <a href="https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/">Analytics Academy</a> series) demonstrates a typical measurement planning and implementation process - closely aligned to the <a href="http://measurelab2.wpengine.com/blog/analytics-planning-is-at-the-heart-of-a-truly-measu

Mark Rochefort-

Google Tag Manager auto-event tracking - useful Tags, Macros and Rules for Google Analytics events

The recent introduction of <a href="http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/no-code-required-auto-event-tracking.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">auto-event tracking</a>&nbsp;for <a href="http://www.google.com/tagmanager/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Tag Manager</a>&nbsp;was a welcome piece of news for many of us keen to remove custom jQuery from within the container. But it quickly became apparent that, to make real use of the auto-event tracking feature,

Mark Rochefort-

Analytics planning: the heart of a truly measurable digital strategy

Google Analytics is free and that’s a wonderful thing. But it does mean people can often undervalue the reports and the benefits that a truly structured approach to analytics brings to a business. Sadly, more often than not, a developer or webmaster adds the default Google Analytics tracking code to a website and leaves it at that. Trawling through the reports to find any kind of insight is left up to an analyst or marketing executive – who, later, attempts to find some kind of meaning in this

Mark Rochefort-

Migrate jQuery event listeners to GTM auto‑event listeners: a better way

Tag Containers are great. In a former life I was developer and I can really appreciate how much help they can be to people wanting to just add a "bit of code" to a website. But, as said former developer, I can also appreciate what a potential disaster it is to give the marketing guys the ability to add code to a website - outside of your carefully considered source control mechanisms and deployment routines. So - the recent announcement (there's quite a few on that link) from the team at Google

Mark Rochefort-

GA Summit 2013: Key Google Analytics updates & insights

The theme of this years summit is a focus on helping customers in three areas: Access, Empower, Act. The slide above was shown by the GA team to summarise the 3 part theme. Babak Pahlavan (Director of Product Management, Google Analytics) let the crowd know that GA have made 70+ releases in 2013 so far, which makes sense on reflection given how busy the year has been. This has included major updates such as the global roll out of Universal Analytics, the introduction of the Attribution Modellin

Dara Fitzgerald-