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The Guardian have launched a new ‘user content’ site in collaboration with EE called “Guardian Witness”, they are now urging users to post their content to the site at https://witness.guardian.co.uk. The site itself is nice and slick, as you’d expect if EE’s tech team has been involved. The official announcement is full of comments criticising The …
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Here’s a list of ‘100 digital publishing influencers’, put together by: 1. Archiving tweets from the #digiconf13 hashtag. 2. Compiling a set of twitter stats for everyone using the hashtag. 3. Running that through peerindex’s (somewhat arbitrary) ‘influence’ ranking tools. Drop me a note at @danbarker with any questions. It’s not perfect, but it shows it’s …
Google Analytics have updated their ‘Realtime’ features. There are 3 main updates: Realtime Dashboard Widgets. Realtime Event Reports. Realtime Segmentation by Desktop / Mobile / Tablet. Here are some screengrabs & notes on each of the changes: New Feature 1. Realtime Dashboard Widgets: Google have added ‘realtime’ widgets to dashboards. The tool to add those …
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It’s very much worth testing the price of your app or service, but also worth trying to avoid having too many different prices visible to potential customers at the same time when you’re running different tests and segmented offers. Here are 8 examples of different prices for FT.com subscription, all found within a couple of …
‘Bots’ often cause problems for website owners. Among many negative effects, they often damage the accuracy & precision of web analytics data, and cause website owners to make faulty decisions. This comes up at least once a month with clients, and I’d spotted the great @peter_oneill, @matt_4ps, & @danieljtruman talking about it on twitter so …
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I thought I’d put together this ‘100 Web Analytics People to Follow on Twitter’ list. Click on any of their @names to jump to their Twitter profile. The people on the list are all gathered from the #measure hashtag, and are ranked automatically by PeerIndex’s black box algorithm. If you’d like to be added to …
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Google’s new Chromebook Pixel is very, very high spec, and very expensive. The most common response so far seems to be: “Why would you pay more than £1,000 for a chromebook??” The answe犀利士 r to that is – I think – 2 things. The first is immediately obvious, the second is not obvious. 1. Trying to …
Here is a free Google Analytics report showing visits, pageview, bounce rate, and visitor type metrics in a couple of ways you don’t often see them: By ‘Hour of Day’ By ‘Day of Week’ There are 2 versions of the report, one for ‘all sites’, and one for ‘ecommerce’ sites: Here’s the report: http://bit.ly/hrdreport (there are …
Which way do people hold their phones/tablets when browsing websites? Here’re the results of a little experiment in ‘Mobile Device Orientation’. There are only abou犀利士 t 1,500 visits here, but interesting nonetheless: This shows info ‘on load’ of pages, but it is broadly similar on this site when factoring in people who rotate the device after …
Here are lots of good, useful, interesting answers to the hypothetical question: “How would you market an ecommerce site on a £10k per year budget?”. [View the story “£10k Marketing Budget Challenge” on Storify] £10k Marketing Budget Challenge What would you do if you had a fixed £10k budget to market an ecommerce site for …
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