In his posting on AEP Web SDK Debugging, which is excellent, my colleague Julien Piccini wrote about Data Elements, Promises, and how you can use _satellite.setVar() to store return values. As always when I see someone use setVar, my first reaction is "I should really finish this post about why I don't use setVar at … Continue reading Why I do not use setVar
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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
Quick tip: Tracking Server & SSL
(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
Privacy with DTM
I am no lawyer, and I do not want to go into any legal or even ethical or moral aspects of EU privacy law. Let's just say this for our American friends: people in the EU do not like to know they're being marketed to. Mostly. They also fear Google more than their own government, … Continue reading Privacy with DTM
“Data Layer on the fly”
If you have ever worked with a marketer who listens to what's fashionable, or if you read any digital marketing related blogs, you have heard of the concept of the Data Layer. It is a construct belonging onto each of the pages of your web site, and it is supposed to surface information to the … Continue reading “Data Layer on the fly”
Tagging Forms (w/o Losing Money)
Our post today will touch on two separate subjects (tagging of forms and limiting server calls (and therefore cost) in certain situations). Those two work together very well, so I decided to mix them together. Two subjects in one posting. Surely that's a good deal! Forms A lot of web sites live entirely to provide visitors … Continue reading Tagging Forms (w/o Losing Money)
The Visitor ID Service
What I write about mostly on this blog has to do with analytics, specifically Adobe Analytics, fka SiteCatalyst. But this is just one in the large collection of tools your friendly marketer uses to do her job. Analytics allow her to capture data for analysis and observation. She can also use the data to drive aspects … Continue reading The Visitor ID Service
Visitor IDs & Visitor Profile
For months now I must have thought that an article about visitor IDs is really overdue. It is the last remaining principle aspect of Adobe Analytics that I have not explained, I think. Also, in step 6 of my post on processing hits, I mentioned the "Visitor Profile" and didn't really explain it. Bad blogger! … Continue reading Visitor IDs & Visitor Profile
Cross-Device Linking – what Adam said
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
Migrating from H-code to AppMeasurement
In May 2013, the Adobe analytics product team released a new Javascript library, no longer called "H.xx.y" but "AppMeasurement for JavaScript". The main selling points for this new lib are it's speed (3 – 5 times faster than H.25), size (8k compressed, compared to 13k for H.25) and native support for some of the most … Continue reading Migrating from H-code to AppMeasurement
Web Analytics for Developers 