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
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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
Project Management, Development, and Analytics
Note: this article is relevant for you if you have ever, or are likely to participate in a bigger project that includes building the platform as well as deploying Analytics, Target, Audience Management, or similar tools. I think it is relevant for developers as well as project managers. Often, we Analytics people are tasked with … Continue reading Project Management, Development, and Analytics
Using the new Callbacks for Tracking
Sometimes you find surprising little things when you don't expect it. Take this little gem: Since 1.8.0 (released 19/1/17) Added the following pre- and post-tracking call hooks. (AN-134567) s.registerPreTrackCallback s.registerPostTrackCallback These functions take as parameters: the callback (a function), and the parameters to that function. For example: s.registerPreTrackCallback(function(requestUrl,a,b,c) { console.log("pre track callback"); console.dir(requestUrl); // Request … Continue reading Using the new Callbacks for Tracking
Useful Data Elements
Every one of us has a bag full of little tricks that they carry with them. The bag contains knowledge, ideas that we developed with or for customers, snippets of code, pieces of architectural blue prints, and much more. This blog, every now and again, empties the bag onto the floor and explains some of … Continue reading Useful Data Elements
Maintenance
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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
Debugging 2017.07
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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
Tracking 404 Error Pages
There are tools out there that find bogus links on your site, and some even try to find links outside your site that point to nirvana. But your friendly marketer likely wants to have better data than that, so she asks you to build tracking for 404 pages. Now what? Let me explain, both for … Continue reading Tracking 404 Error Pages
Adobe DTM + Adobe Analytics Media Module + YouTube = ❤️
Today, I'm happy to present the first ever guest post on webanalytics for developers! Written by Stefan Schäfer, it deals with DTM, the Media Module, and Youtube video. Have fun! If you use Adobe DTM together with the Adobe Analytics Media Module, and if you can completely rely on autoTrack=true, you're good. But what if you have … Continue reading Adobe DTM + Adobe Analytics Media Module + YouTube = ❤️
Discussion – Customize Analytics in DTM
There is no "standard deployment". A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with a colleague who hadn't worked with DTM before. He asked me lots of intelligent questions about his somewhat non-standard requirements, and I replied with what I think is the best approach. Whilst doing that, I kept thinking about "the other approach", … Continue reading Discussion – Customize Analytics in DTM
Web Analytics for Developers 