Articles Tagged google analytics

The idea for this article sparked when Chris wrote this in Thank You (2018 Edition):

I almost wish our URLs had years in them because I still don't have a way to scope analytic data to only show me data from content published this year. I can see the most popular stuff from the year, but that's regardless of when it was published, and that's dominated by the big guides we've had for years and keep updated.

I have … Read article

I've said a number of times in the past:

I wish I could just check a checkbox and make certain Google Analytics data public.

I get that analytics can be a very private thing for some sites. I think there are just as many sites where that data just doesn't need to be private. Not only would it be interesting, but insight might be gleaned from having more eyeballs on the data, and it could contribute to a wider data … Read article

It was five years ago when I wrote Screen Resolution ≠ Browser Window. The idea was that, at the time, there was a lot of talk about monitor size in relation to how we design websites. JavaScript is happy to tell the dimensions of a monitor: screen.width. But how useful is that? Isn't it more useful to know how big the actual browser window is? Of course, it is. We don't write media queries based on screen.width, … Read article

Ian Pitts sent me this trick a while back and I'm just getting around to publishing it. Thank Ian!

Google Analytics (intro video here) is powerful stuff, but one notable lacking feature is data on outgoing clicks. If you are using jQuery, plop this code on your page and you'll be tracking outgoing clicks in no time.… Read article