Agreed - and just for the record, we are not an Omniture partner - just a satisfied customer. My passion for Omniture stems from my many years of Web Analytics...
Has anyone in this forum had a chance to use Visual Sciences? I understand its a fairly complex application, using various data collection means. Does anyone...
I took it for a test drive several months back - but never deployed it to production. I was actually quite impressed with the platform. The interface wasn't...
I can only speak for Coremetrics on this, but the CMP evaluation required an investment on the part of the vendor in terms of implementation and support ...
Hi all, In the spirit of contributing to more constructive discussion, I wanted to inquire about some industry best-practices :) Specifically, I'd be ...
Folks, Quiet day today in the discussion group huh? I heard that Jim Sterne mentioned the group in his "Sterne Measures" newsletters (altho I appear to have...
We're getting ready to migrate from logfiles to page tags with our current analytics vendor. One decision that needs to be made is where on the page the...
... Placing the tag at the bottom of the screen will exclude data from your most frequent/most well trained visitors. People who know where to click can...
Hello everyone- This feature has been on my wish list, and I thought Web Trends 7 was going to have it, but it does not look like it. We often times would like...
Sunil and others, I realized my email (see below) may have implied we evaluated Visual Sciences and chose not to deploy the product for one reason or another....
We currenly place the tagging at the bottom (global footer), but because of some of the issues you mentioned we are planning on moving it to the top (global...
Adam, Coremetrics allows you to segment your visitors to view path, session, and page information for authenticated individuals based on User ID. We are also...
Adam, The feature that you describe is provided by Visual Sciences. Let me know if you would like to see it. Best regards, Jim MacIntyre CEO (703) 966-9902 ...
Hello Adam, I believe that your best option is to focus on products that incorporate some sort of a BI tool. They do not come cheap but they will provide you...
Hello Eric and everybody, I run a small Internet marketing firm and some of clients ask me to interpret their analytics for them. I mostly know what I am doing...
This is actually quite easy if you are using tags. Have your client specify the 'pagename' variable based on the page served, rather than the default URL...
Hi Dave, What product is the client using? Make sure the product is tracking the entire URL with the query string. The old software package we used (Accrue)...
Matt: Thanks for the advice. What analytics package are you using? My client wants me to decide. I am leaning toward a solution that uses tags, but there are...
Fred: The product selection is up to me! So far, he has relied on log files for a site with many dynamically generated pages. I am going to recommend a tagged...
I use Omniture, but choosing the vendor really depends on the needs of your client's website. What are the site objectives and measurement goals? Is their...
... You can use WebTrends lookup tables to parse log files and create intelligent reports using URL parameters. All you have to do is build a lookup table...
David, The question you asked was tracking a dynamic page accurately, and this is something even lowly logfile analyzers should be capable of. Certainly ...
Jim: Thanks for the tip. FYI, I have been reading your e-mailed book excerpts and it's next on my list when my budget allows. - Dave Culbertson LightBulb...
Folks, Thanks for the great answers and opinions so far. This Yahoo Group is a wonderful resource and I hope that I contribute over time. I've got another...
David, The best way is probably to look in the Browsers and Spiders sections of the reporting, find all the spiders, then exclude with a browser filter using...
Hello, the best list of spider user agents I think is the one put out by the IAB. (www.iab.net). but some log analysis systems will take forever with a...
Where can I begin my due dillegence finding a quality provider of competive knowledge for online upstream and downstreams from my site? I know Hitwise is a...
Many familiar names and faces here ... Just wanted to say hi. I joined the group today, on Eric's suggestion. I was co-founder/CTO at Accrue Software. I left...
