29

Jun

By Dennis R. Mortensen
Podcast: Web Analytics in Europe (A conversation with six experts)

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a Podcast, arranged by my de-facto EU WAA representative; Lars Johansson, with the following experts on the subject: Web Analytics In Europe. The tone of the conversation is very relaxed and it was actually tremendously fun to participate – as it was more 7 guys (and girl) [...]

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26

Jun

By Dennis R. Mortensen
10 Cool things you can do with Web Analytics

I had the pleasure of being invited to sit down with Eric Enge from StoneTemple, as part of their 2007 Web Analytics shoot out, talking about 10 cool things you could do with the IndexTools Analytics tool package. As I understand it, he will do a couple of other articles in this “series” – so [...]

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23

Jun

By Dennis R. Mortensen
Disrupting Web Analytics

I was recently quoted over at the Alarm Clock (inside new technology ventures) – and I absolutely love their blog post title of “Disrupting Web Analytics From Budapest” – there is NO DOUBT that I am going to “steal” that phrase and re-use it over and over and over till Omniture or one of the [...]

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16

Jun

By Dennis R. Mortensen
Do you have a “Fat head”? (Long tail)

As a reply to my post about how to spot a drooping tail and thus create an opportunity to increase revenue, I had a great question from Greg, which I simply had to answer as part of a separate post. The question goes like this: Q. “I don’t think we have a drooping tail (organic [...]

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14

Jun

By Dennis R. Mortensen
Cookies and their effect on the "Unique Visitors" metric

There was a debate some months back on the Yahoo Web Analytics Forum about “Authenticated User IDs vs. Unique Visitors” – which I somehow participated in with the post: Visits vs. Unique Visitors vs. Authenticated Users. Here I momentarily touch the subject of why cookie’s affect unique visitors, but not really any conclusion or take [...]

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09

Jun

By Dennis R. Mortensen
Web Reporting vs. Web Analysis

I believe very strongly that one have to understand that reporting on any metric at pure face value within a very limited context is unsound and should not be confused with actionable insight from analysis! – To wrap up that statement I tend to conclude that: Reporting is produced by tools Analysis is done by [...]

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