Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to track something outside the normal way. Examples can be when you want to track data that is not available directly on page load, such as product availability. Easy: use DTM In theory, this should be easy: Just make a Page Load Rule, set "Trigger … Continue reading Quick Tip: Delayed Tracking with DTM
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“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”
Using Analytics Live Stream
I have wanted to write and post this article for ages now. The thing that always held me back: setting up OAuth. But the EMEA Summit is upon us, and with it a lab session about the Analytics Live Stream, and I am going to be part of that, so I have to. The bad … Continue reading Using Analytics Live Stream
Making Reports
Sometimes the forest is so overwhelming that you don't see the trees. Or the other way round. I was discussing DTM and Analytics with a non-analytics colleague yesterday. He is a developer who works on AEM, Adobe's experience management framework. In our discussion about data that he'd like to analyse (and he was actually thinking … Continue reading Making Reports
TDD for Analytics, please
Let me throw out an idea here. Given that you are a developer, I hope you can a) appreciate the idea and b) help me develop it into something that works. The idea is to use test-driven development for Analytics or maybe for digital marketing tagging in general. Motivation I recently attended a conference in … Continue reading TDD for Analytics, please
Web Analytics for Developers 