Hi everyone, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is looking for a FT in-house Web marketing and analytics specialist. This person would be responsible for:...
Aquent is currently working on a new job opening with a client of ours in NYC. Our client is a midsized publishing company. Aquent has placed both consultants...
Matt, I worked at Omniture for a year before the job I'm at right now. After I left, I looked at a bunch of local companies' websites, and found a variety of...
Are there any users of SiteClarity on the list? I just recently started at Woodwind & Brasswind / Music123 and walked into the middle of a vendor selection for...
In Eric Peterson's web analytics demystified, site wide conversion rates for online retailers is defined as 'all purchases to visits or visitors'. We are...
Thanks for the message Craig. I agree with you there. Seems like half of the discrepencies and issues from clients that I remember would arise out of a poor...
Hi, This is a subject which has caused some friendly disagreements in the past! One reason you would want to use visits instead of visitors is that the latter...
http://informationr.net/ir/11-2/paper249.html A bit different from our usual views, here is a research paper from a UK university group examining a couple of...
Dear Group, has anyone out there ever been confronted with a user based click probability. This Measure should - unlike the simple clickrate - reflect the...
Having just raced through an implementation, I am now experiencing exactly the aches and pains Matt and Craig describe. Web Analytics packages are sold as if...
I'd say that it does not only depend upon the number of visits to purchase, but also what the purchase is. At my last job, we measured conversion rates based...
Web analytics or whatever you want to call it really focuses on your site and how it is performing against its own metrics; last week, year, month. So how...
I've been puzzling over this question recently. I've been looking at conversion rates for a particular "registration process," and I've been using visits. (I...
This issue comes up for us a lot. We find too often that the "unique visitors" is an unreliable figure, especially when we have lots of single-page visits....
Ovi I am sorry we did not get to talk. I am happy with the document more or less so please proceed as per this spec and we can talk again I expect to have...
Eric, thanks for putting us onto this group at eMetrics SB. I saw so many familiar "faces" here, that I had to jump in. It was great to see, by the ...
Hi Tom, I'm not sure what vendor you are using, but my recommendation is to work closely with your account manager and implementation engineer (at that vendor)...
As long as your web analytics tool of choice is helping you attain your key performance indicators (KPIs) or online goals that your company set forth, then you...
Tom, You're going to find that it gets even crazier. Typically, engineering teams devote resources to the implementation of your tracking system, after which...
It was fantastic to meet so many of you in Santa Barbara! I look forward to more dialogue with new friends. I only took a handful of photos at the event, but...
Awesome Andrea! Many thanks. ... Emetrics Summit, Web Analytics Conference www.emetrics.org Santa Barbara, April 18 - 20 SOLD OUT London, 3-5 May Munich, May...
Hello a question from a complete beginner here. Can anyone tell me whether the statistics on Google Analytics include hits from search engine spiders, or...
Martin Pratt
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May 3, 2006 2:28 pm
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Hi, I searched the archives, but couldn`t find much about the topic what to consider, when pondering the question "should I set up and manage my web analytics...
Morning, A long-time lurker with a first post here; hearing all about web metrics has convinced me that we need to do more where I work. So... Fidelity...
Mike, We have struggled with the same thing, and have settled on using qualitative research to provide competetive intelligence. Here is what we do: We run an...
Search engine spiders generally do not run javascript or load images hence do not send data to Google Analytics or other tagging solutions. However some...
Hi Albert-- Granted my viewpoint is prejudiced in favor of hiring professionals (its what my company does) to set up and configure your tool no matter whether...
Hi Martin. Google Analytics uses a javascript-generated tracking cookie, similar to HBX/CoreMetrics/Omniture/etc. Only spiders that process javascript will...
Mike Chipman
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May 3, 2006 4:27 pm
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Martin, According to the Google Analytics help center, they do not track hits from search engine spiders. Here is a link that explains it: ...
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