In 2014, I went to Berlin to attend "Digital Analytics Hub", probably the best "conference" in our business. DA Hub evolved out of Gary Angel's Xchange. You sit in small groups of people with one discussion leader, and you speak about interesting subjects. Those "discussions" can be anything between good and outstanding, depending on the … Continue reading Test-driven & agile Analytics revisited
Category: Integration
Posts dealing with integrating Analytics data with other systems; getting data into or out of Analytics programmatically.
Setting up for using the Reporting API
The recent article on how to set up a test platform was a success, so I have decided to listen to a suggestion by Mitchell and write a similar article about enabling your friendly marketer to play with the Reporting API. There are a couple of ways she could achieve this. API Explorer This is … Continue reading Setting up for using the Reporting API
Tracking Single-page Applications
or: why AngularJS makes our lives harder Single-page applications are web sites that "live on a single page", i.e. when the visitor clicks anything, the browser will not load a new page (as it usually would). Instead, it will modify the existing page using Javascript. SPAs can be quite complex, and people build them because … Continue reading Tracking Single-page Applications
Wanna test? Here’s how
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[2018-04-13 - update - changed instructions to include ChromeDriver] [2016-06-12 - update - changed github repo] I have been writing about testing for some time now. I have even spoken about it at the EMEA Adobe Summit! So this week, for the first time since starting this blog, let me address your friendly marketer instead … Continue reading Wanna test? Here’s how
My Summit session now viewable online
This is not technically a post, but May is a month with 5 Tuesdays, so: If you weren't able to come to Summit, or just missed the session, I'm happy to announce that you can now see Craig Scribner and me speak about Data Quality! The recording is available online, though you have to drop … Continue reading My Summit session now viewable online
Charles’ “Replace” is a Winner!
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Remember when I wrote an Ode to Charles & Map Local? At the time, I wasn't using DTM a lot. Map Local was the top feature I needed, allowing me to test changes I made to an s_code.js file on a live site without causing any harm to innocent bystanders. These days, I use DTM … Continue reading Charles’ “Replace” is a Winner!
How to monitor campaign performance in the Real-Time reports
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Everybody who ever pays for traffic should be using campaign tracking! How else will you ever find out whether you spend your money wisely? But how about monitoring a campaign in real time? Well, Analytics has "Real-Time" — three "reports" or maybe "dashboards" that show data very quickly and refresh automatically. The Real-Time reports are … Continue reading How to monitor campaign performance in the Real-Time reports
Self-hosting DTM Libraries
Are you an AEM architect or developer? Then you have probably heard of the DTM Cloud Service, right? You might also know that you can use that Cloud Service to automate what DTM calls "Library Download". If you are working with any other CMS, you can obviously also download the Javascript that DTM generates and … Continue reading Self-hosting DTM Libraries
Basic Tracking – Remix (contains DTM)
In March 2013, I wrote an article on Basic Tracking, showing you the minimal set of code on a page that is needed for tracking the page in Adobe Analytics. We're in 2015, now, we have DTM, so it is time for a refresh. This article will give you the minimal setup needed for tracking … Continue reading Basic Tracking – Remix (contains DTM)
TDD – Testing Data Elements and Page Load Rules – part II
Very unlike me, I'm posting the next part just the next day. Call it excitement. Introduction tl;dr: I describe a (rudimentary) tool that can be integrated into automated Maven tests. The tool tests that all data needed for tracking as well as the basic triggers on page load are still working fine. Put it into your … Continue reading TDD – Testing Data Elements and Page Load Rules – part II
Web Analytics for Developers 