I'm sure you remember the three prior installments of the "Basic Tracking" article series, don't you? Basic Tracking from 2013, about a pure Javascript approach, Basic Tracking - Remix (contains DTM) in 2015, about the more modern tag management approach, and Basic Tracking on AMP Pages in 2018, about the beautifully weird and somewhat limited … Continue reading Basic Tracking – Remix (contains Launch)
More about AMP
Building up on the recent post about Basic Tracking on AMP Pages, I want to riff some more on a couple of aspects today. Also, my colleague Susan Vertrees happened to sit next to me a couple of weeks ago, and since she knows what she is talking about, she was able to point out … Continue reading More about AMP
Fixes – Too many Visits on Pages with Links
On the German blog, I used to run a series about frequent mishaps, and how to detect and fix them. Those articles were often about data, rather than implementation, so I never translated them to this blog. But here is one that is pretty technical, so it should clearly live here. Friendly marketer says that … Continue reading Fixes – Too many Visits on Pages with Links
Quick tip – Passing Data into Launch Rules
If you haven't yet heard it: In Launch, by Adobe, the _satellite.track() method accepts two parameters: an Event name, plus payload data. We used to work around this in the past when calling DCRs in DTM, storing the data somewhere in the DOM. My favourite method was the one first shown to me by my … Continue reading Quick tip – Passing Data into Launch Rules
A Standard Data Model for Requirements
Adam Greco recently wrote three articles about how you can embed business requirements into Adobe Analytics Workspaces ("Adobe Analytics Requirements and SDR in Workspace" I, II, and III) in order to help data consumers understand. His method goes all the way from "this is why we added eVarXY" to "78% of requirements are currently tracked … Continue reading A Standard Data Model for Requirements
Tracking Form Abandonment
We used to have a plugin for Analytics that would allow people to track form abandonment. It was -wait for it- abandoned somewhere around the move from s_code.js to AppMeasurement.js. If you want to find out where in your forms people give up, you have to improvise come up with a solution yourself. The following … Continue reading Tracking Form Abandonment
How to debug Launch, by Adobe
DTM is quite a bit easier to use and handle than Launch is. Partly, Launch is new and we are all on the upwards slope of the learning curve. Partly, Launch opens up whole new worlds. For those of you working with/in DTM and/or Launch, this is a pretty cool time. I once wrote about … Continue reading How to debug Launch, by Adobe
With Launch, you don’t need doPlugins! – Part 4
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Wait? What? How can this be part 4? Where are parts 1 through 3? I am very liberally counting things, disregarding slight differences in titles, and tools, so the previous parts are: With DTM you don’t need Plugins! – Part 1 With DTM you don’t need Plugins! – Part 2 With DTM you don’t need … Continue reading With Launch, you don’t need doPlugins! – Part 4
Basic Tracking on AMP Pages
This article was born out of sheer frustration. I had a) never implemented on AMP pages before, b) had to do it very urgently, and c) learned the hard way that the documentation wasn't brilliant. The documentation not being brilliant is a side effect of how AMP develops at a pretty fast pace, nothing like … Continue reading Basic Tracking on AMP Pages
Accessing Adobe I/O using Java
You might remember how, a couple of years ago, I was whining about how the authentication on the Reporting API was difficult. At the time, I wrote some Java code that was able to log into it, and I have been using that code, more or less unchanged, for a long time. Now, all APIs … Continue reading Accessing Adobe I/O using Java
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