Posts in the Analytics category

Whether it’s Google Analytics, Mint, 103bees, or something else, I’m always playing with web analytics tools, this category describes my troubles and findings with them!

  • November 18th

    4

    Technorati Pepper for Mint

    Excerpt: I've been playing with the thought of developing a Pepper for Mint for ages, but never got to it. Tonight I decided to do it, and it turned out to be incredibly easy! So I've developed a Pepper that has two panes, one displays your Technorati scores like this: The other displays the latest links…

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  • July 14th

    2

    The "Yoast Post" and more

    Excerpt: Mel Carson has done a great great post (cough) on the MS AdCenter community blog, thanking me for my work on the AdCenter Analytics plugin. Well, Mel, my pleasure (and kudos for the great headline :) )! …

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  • May 29th

    0

    Web Analytics Congress: the learnings

    Excerpt: I've had a great day at the web analytics congress, the keynotes by Neil Mason and my good friend Avinash Kaushik were inspiring as ever, and Mieke from Independer.nl had a nice presentation. Not much real news in there for me, but very, very inspiring. What I saw today was mostly this though: eve…

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  • May 29th

    0

    Web Analytics Congress in the Netherlands

    Excerpt: I'm currently at the web analytics conference here in the Netherlands, where Neil Mason of Applied Insights is doing the keynote speech, saying he doesn't actually like web analytics, but rather calls it online marketing optimization and I feel strangely at home... His main point is that you should…

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  • May 27th

    9

    Piwik - Open source webanalytics

    Excerpt: I got a tweet from @zjuul today, because he was modifying (and has since released a beta version) my Google Analytics plugin to work with Piwik. Piwik is an open source analytics tool, in it's very early stages of development. I've been looking at it, installing it on this site, and so far, I lik…

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  • May 7th

    5

    Heroes coming to Holland

    Excerpt: In the coming few weeks, a couple of my friends and heroes are coming to Holland! First, Kris Jones from Pepperjam is coming to do the keynote at Affiliate Dag 2008, the very first Dutch affiliate conference with over 500 people registered already! I will be speaking there myself too, talking abo…

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  • January 1st

    32

    WordPress Google Analytics 2.3: XHTML strict

    Excerpt: After all the ASP and XHTML strict validation issues with Google Analytics, Google updated the default generated script code. I've now updated the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin to version 2.3, which uses this new code. You should really upgrade! Next to that: I'd like to hear from you on …

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  • December 20th

    9

    A better way of tracking feed subcribes

    Excerpt: I use FeedBurner, just like anyone else, to track my subscribers. One thing I really like to measure too though, is the number of feed subscribes, as in the act of subscribing. Now you can simply add onclick handlers for Google Analytics or any other stats package to all your feed links, but that me…

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  • December 18th

    20

    Google Analytics plugin updated!

    Excerpt: I've just updated my Google Analytics WordPress plugin to version 2.2, it "forces" you to switch to the new tracking code. Image tracking and AdSense tracking should still work. It requires the code to be in the head, as outbound link tracking will still not work correctly otherwise. Before you i…

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  • December 16th

    9

    Image search keyword tracking with the new Google Analytics

    Excerpt: While rewriting my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, I found out that in the new Google Analytics tracking with ga.js, tracking the keyword people used in image search is a lot easier than it was in the old version, as changing the referrer info doesn't involve rewriting an entire function anym…

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  • December 13th

    2

    Blog Metrics 0.3: who's the best linkbaiter?

    Excerpt: With version 0.3 of the Blog Metrics plugin, I'm introducing quite a bit of new stuff: it calculates how many trackbacks you received on average per post, and does a better job of calculating comments. But that's only a small part of what's cool in it, the coolest part, is that it now generates stat…

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  • December 13th

    3

    Google Analytics: Adding search engines in the new version

    Excerpt: As Google Analytics unlocked a few new features, they also made the new ga.js the default. I'm working on upgrading my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin to work with the new version, but I though I'd let you guys know some of the things I ran into. The first one is that adding search engines now…

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  • December 4th

    1

    Blog Metrics 0.2: compare all time stats to last month's stats

    Excerpt: I thought it would be cool to compare your all time blog metrics to the metrics for last month, so I tweaked my blog metrics plugin a bit, and now it gives you this screen: …

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  • November 19th

    11

    Blog Metrics in WordPress

    Excerpt: Avinash Kaushik has done an excellent post about blog metrics today, most of the stats he showed off, like unique visitors, pageviews, subscribers, etc. are ones I've been using for quite a while. There were two new "metrics" that I hadn't used as much up till now, raw author contribution and conver…

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  • November 17th

    14

    Updated my Google Analytics plugin to track AdSense clicks

    Excerpt: Iwan Uswak from the Data Mining Blog requested that I added Aaron's AdSense Google Analytics tracking to my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. I emailed Aaron to ask if he had any objections to me doing that, and as expected his answer was "of course not.". So I've just updated my plugin to vers…

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  • November 7th

    4

    Google Analytics' find function

    Excerpt: If you use my Google Analytics WordPress plugin, or just use another javascript to add extra search engines and refine the way Analytics tracks your search referrers, you can't see the figures for for instance Google's organic search as a whole anymore. Unless of course, you do the following: …

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  • October 17th

    3

    Cool new stuff in Google Analytics

    Excerpt: Well, now that I sort of understood how the Google Analytics code worked, the guys over at GA thought: heck, let's throw it all out (well not just yet, but we'll get to that in a second), and come with some new stuff. Justin has done a great job, as usual, covering all this new stuff on Epikone, and…

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  • October 15th

    13

    Using segmentation in Google Analytics for WordPress RSS readers

    Excerpt: One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while seems to be finally nearing completion. Google Analytics allows you to segment users into custom segments, and there's one segment I've been aching for. I want to be able to segment RSS readers, to be able to see the different browsing behavior o…

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  • October 9th

    1

    John Chow vs Shoemoney: John is in the lead!

    Excerpt: John Chow and Shoemoney are holding a competition between themselves for who can get the most RSS subscribers in a month time. I've created a graph of their progress since the start of the competition using the FeedBurner API, this image will update itself during the competition: Help John Ch…

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  • October 2nd

    1

    Yahoo's Search Assist and tracking keywords

    Excerpt: Dave's post pointed me at the new look for Yahoo!, and Greg did some coverage on SEL. The coolest thing in there is Yahoo Search Assist, which Danny explains at length in this somewhat older post. It works amazingly cool and it might even make me consider Yahoo! a bit more often. Sean Hardaker ra…

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  • September 20th

    2

    Extracting click data from Google Analytics

    Excerpt: Small note: Quite a few people asked how to check the outbound click and download data from Google Analytics, so I compiled a small howto on checking your outbound click stats. Update: I added a few more: How to check your image search stats and keywords Creating a Google Analytics filter …

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  • September 14th

    18

    Google Analytics for WordPress: my latest plugin

    Excerpt: I just wanted to let you guys know that I've thrown the first version of my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin out there. You can download it from here, while you wait for me to write the page for it on this site! It automatically tracks outbound clicks from posts, comments, blogroll, it track…

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  • September 6th

    27

    Google Analytics and Google Image search: revisited

    Excerpt: I wrote earlier about using a custom urchin.js to get Google Analytics to extract the keywords from Image Search. Now my colleague Roy recently spoke about this with an engineer from Google, and this engineer suggested that I could just rewrite the one function and add that as an extra javascript in…

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  • August 4th

    7

    Getting Google Analytics to extract keywords from Google Image searches

    Excerpt: Google Analytics doesn't get the keywords people used to find your site using Google Image search, and thus labels them as "referral" instead of as "organic". Google Image search gives you referral URL's that aren't really readable. The query string that the searcher used to get to that referring…

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  • July 16th

    26

    Google Analytics: adding search engines

    Excerpt: I've been diving a bit in to Google Analytics lately, and one of the things you'll notice when you run Google Analytics is that it doesn't recognize every conceivable search engine straight out of the box. For instance, Ilse.nl, still quite popular here in the Netherlands, doesn't seem to be seen as…

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  • May 12th

    8

    Update to statistics detector for yet another stats package

    Excerpt: As requested by Ruben, I've added Clicky to the statistics detector Greasemonkey script, upgrading it to version 1.3.8, and installed Clicky on this site too. The interface looks quite good, I'll test it over the next few days and let you guys know what I think.…

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  • April 26th

    5

    Running multiple Mint instances? Make updating easier!

    Excerpt: I run three instances of Mint, and if I worked "the normal way" doing one of it's rather frequent updates would mean having to copy the same files three times. Since I'm lazy, I don't feel like doing that. What I've done is pick one "main" Mint install, and symlink all files in other directories exc…

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  • January 31st

    53

    Analytics conversions, please explain what's wrong

    Excerpt: I use Analytics on some of my sites to check conversions, but the conversion summary of Analytics drives me nuts sometimes. On the 29th, it shows me 8 conversions. On the 30th, it shows me 1 conversion. Then when I change the view to 29-30 it shows me... 8 conversions! Now the last time I checked, 8…

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  • November 3rd

    1

    Statistics detector part II

    Excerpt: A while ago I started writing my Greasemonkey script to detect statistics programs, this script has been evolving since, and now has gotten it's own page, so check out the Greasemonkey statistics detector. If you find any statistics programs it doesn't recognize, please do let me know so I can up…

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  • October 20th

    0

    Note to Mint users

    Excerpt: If you're a Mint user, you might want to add the new search.live.com as a search engine to your Mint config, since otherwise Mint won't recognize these referrers as a Search Engine.The process is quite easy:add the following lines to the end of your engines.php: [sourcecode language="jscript"] $…

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  • October 5th

    26

    Free competitor statistics!

    Excerpt: Sometimes, while going through results for certain keywords, you will find that some of your competitors use free statistics programs. In a lot of cases, you can access those statistics, which usually contain very valuable data like keywords and referrers. Sometimes people will hide the usually obli…

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  • October 4th

    2

    Have a Mint Greasemonkey script

    Excerpt: This script has been replaced by a new version, which now has it's own page.  I recently (as in, yesterday) bought a Mint license for this site, and am now very enthusiastic about it. Now i've always been using Google Analytics, and since i'm very interested to know what kind of stats package ot…

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  • April 16th

    1

    Stone Steps Webalizer

    Excerpt: I've updated the SSW info a bit, will do more in the coming few days. Update: So I updated it a bit, and mailed the Stone Steps guys about it, and Andre from Stone Steps responded, very kindly telling me that you could also use a per domain css file, so i updated the info again :).…

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  • April 3rd

    1

    Stone Steps Webalizer

    Excerpt: The other day i was struggling with Webalizer, one of the best known tools to generate simple webstats around. Problem is that it hasn't been updated for a while now. The people at Stone Steps have updated it though, and i now have very nice and spiffy stats for the sites i host on my own little ser…

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