Last week, Adam Greco wrote his excellent article called Linking Authenticated Visitors Across Devices, which is the first really good and complete description I have seen of how to tackle "the cross-device issue". In short, people are using more than one device to interact with your online presence, and because visitor identification is primarily based … Continue reading Cross-Device Linking – what Adam said
At the Oscars
Happy Birthday Early last year, while discussing Context Data with a web developer (which in turn led to me explaining "variables" in Adobe Analytics in general), I realised that while there is a lot of really helpful content out there for users, some of the concepts needed explaining. On March 4th, webanalyticsfordevelopers.com went live to … Continue reading At the Oscars
Reports via sFTP
How can I deliver reports via sFTP? Really simple, see documentation Except it isn't. Or at least it doesn't seem to be simple, judged by the number of questions I see people ask, both internally and externally. So let's explain how it works. The setting: some of the data in Adobe Analytics can be delivered … Continue reading Reports via sFTP
All New Reporting API
The Maintenance Release of the Adobe Marketing Cloud on February 20 saw a lot of changes, fixes and new functionality. Personally, I am rather chuffed about the new Reporting API 1.4! Here is the excerpt from the release notes with the high level list of changes: OAuth Authentication Pathing support (Next/Previous Page, Next/Previous Page Flow, … Continue reading All New Reporting API
Processing Rules – Positive or Precise
I came across an interesting gotcha last week when I was helping a German company troubleshoot their tracking. They were sending in a prop and an eVar along with an event as payload on a custom link. The numbers for that custom link were a lot higher than the event and the instances on both … Continue reading Processing Rules – Positive or Precise
Know Your Version
I received a question via Twitter the other day: @jexnerADBE Hello Jan, can you tell from looking at the source code for SC which version of SC a site is on?...Thank you! That is a really good question! Sounds simple but there are a couple of ways to get to the version. And as an … Continue reading Know Your Version
Internal URL Filters
Your friendly marketer is interested in the beginning and the end of a visitor's visit. She wants to know where they came from, how long they were around, how many pages they saw and so on. How do we technically determine those two important moments? The Beginning of a Visit Let's look at the start … Continue reading Internal URL Filters
Multi-Suite Tracking & Report Suites
Short post today to explain two things that have been mentioned on this blog a couple of times but never really explained. Bad blog! "Report Suite" The concept "report suite" is pretty important in Adobe Analytics. I have mentioned it a lot but only ever gone into a little bit of detail in the post … Continue reading Multi-Suite Tracking & Report Suites
Cohort Analysis
Just like you have editors, debuggers, profilers, libraries, frameworks and other things, your friendly marketer has a bag of tools that they use to do their job. One of these tools is the so-called "cohort-analysis". Cohorts Think about the people coming to your web site. When your friendly marketer ran that facebook competition, she attracted … Continue reading Cohort Analysis
2 Good Reasons to use Context Data
My colleague Carl Sandquist recently wrote "Although you may get a bit teary-eyed bidding farewell to expounding on the differences of eVars and props to your developers, we’re sure you’ll eventually get over it." He's obviously right about this: developers will shed no tears if they never have to see props or eVars ever again. … Continue reading 2 Good Reasons to use Context Data
Web Analytics for Developers 