A developer's guide to web analytics – decommissioned in 2021
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The cool thing about Analytics, from the point of view of a developer: once you have set it up, it is completely maintenance-free! Fire and forget! Or is it? The truth is that a) "once you have set it up" is not the way I would describe Analytics (or other things like targeting, personalisation, testing, … Continue reading Maintenance
One more on automated testing, if you allow me. Yesterday evening (i.e. on July 17th, as this post is scheduled to go live on the 18th), I will hopefully have updated the test framework on github. There are two big changes in this new version, and those to have to be explained. I swapped out … Continue reading Automated Testing – Blocking Tracking
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5 months ago I jokingly decided to put versions into the titles of articles about debugging. I seem to be wiser than I think I am... This article is about the "Adobe Experience Cloud Debugger" Chrome extension, a replacement for a bunch of other debuggers and extensions, and for some, maybe even for Charles. The … Continue reading Debugging 2017.07
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I feel that standards are a good thing. I think that each of us should strive to follow standard approaches, because it'll make all of our lives easier. I also think that a Data Layer is an adornment on every site, and a svelte way of helping analysts and marketing do their work more flexibly. … Continue reading Using a CEDDL Data Layer with DTM
Remember when I wrote about how I blog? How I mentioned the empty note called "Hierarchical Data Elements", and couldn't remember what I had intended to write? As usual, I found a snippet of text the day the article went live, and so I am now able to return to my normal schedule and proudly … Continue reading Quick tip: hierarchical Data Elements
Since the Summits, there has been some interest in the test framework I keep flogging on this blog, and rightfully so, imnsho! They say that no plan survives first contact with reality, and the same is true for those who have started to use the framework. It is amazing how much abstraction goes on in … Continue reading More tests, more fun
(I mentioned two weeks ago that I sometimes blog because I want to learn and/or remember things. This is one of those articles.) Whether you are a regular reader or just generally interested, I'm sure you know that most (if not all) analytics tools these days work by sending "tracking calls", "hits", "beacons", or whatever … Continue reading Quick tip: Tracking Server & SSL
I am sure you have all been thinking "how does he find what to blog about, and how does he write his articles?" Right? No? Well, I am writing, and you are reading, so the whole mechanism is in my favour here, and if I want to explain these things, there's nothing you can do. … Continue reading Behind the Scenes – How I Blog
This year, I had the opportunity to run a hands-on lab about data quality at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, and I'll run the same lab again in London on the 10th. The lab was mainly about the test framework I also write about here a lot. My hope was that I could introduce … Continue reading Data Quality at the Adobe Summit
In a rare case of development on my part, I am today going to tell you to not follow the advice in an article I wrote some time ago. I'm talking about Plugins: New/Repeat vs VisitNum. At the time I told you to do your friendly marketer a favour, track visit number for her instead … Continue reading Don’t track New/Repeat Visitors!
Web Analytics for Developers 