Category: Analytics

Analytics

You’ve never paid for measurement before, what should you pay?

But wait you say, I have never paid for analytics before, I have always used free solutions available. You’re not alone, with some of those free solutions retiring and moving to more complex offerings. Many are left wondering what to do. To invest the time to upskill and use the more complex functions, or to evaluate other tools. Paying nothing is hard to beat (which is why Nudge has a free tier). But the problem with not paying anything for… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 15, 2023

Analytics

Why does your traffic go up when you swap analytics systems?

Often traditional analytics have been blocked by ad blockers and/or use the data in a way that consumers have chosen to block them. That means, often when you swap analytics, your total traffic goes up. Why? Because you are now measuring more of your audience. The second reason is speed. Mobile users and users that leave the page quickly may not be counted by traditional analytics which load slower. Newer analytics which load faster, end up counting more of your… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 13, 2023

Analytics

Ways to use Nudge

Some of the ways we see people using analytics: Pin the dashboard, as a tab, and visit each day to see how performance is going today. To identify urls that need improvement, or see how your content is performing. To get insights onto how customers are engaging To prove the ROI of efforts To predict the success of future projects, using older data To build benchmarks To help articulate to others how well your work is doing To justify current… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 13, 2023

Analytics

Bounce vs Traditional Bounce

Traditional bounce rate requires a user to click another page to not bounce. Yet in many circumstances if someone reads the content and hits the back button, that experience did its job. Nudge bounce looks at how long or how far through the content they engage. If a user doesn’t engage and leaves within 5 seconds, it counts as a bounce. After all, you create experiences to engage, if it engages that shouldn’t count as a bounce. This methodology gets recorded… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 13, 2023

Analytics

Guide to eCommerce Analytics

Ecommerce analytics is the process of collecting, processing and analyzing data around an ecommerce store. Depending on the tool used, this could be a combination of customer, web usage and purchase data. This post details an introduction to eCommerce Analytics.   This post includes: Common metrics used in eCommerce Example eCommerce analytics dashboard How do they analytics work How analytics increases sales Use cases Why are they important? What are the limitations? How… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 10, 2023

Analytics

Enterprise Benchmarks

As part of our Enterprise services we offer Benchmarking. This is a part of the dashboard which shows you your benchmarks. And is part service. Nudge is able to provide benchmarks of data it has collected. There is a minimum data size, typically a quarter worth of work, to establish meaningful data. Outliers are removed, and/or an alternative set of benchmarks is included, if data outliers reflect the actual business reality. Analytics benchmarks are particularly powerful for enterprises managing… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 6, 2023

Analytics

Guide to Website Analytics

Website analytics is the process of collecting and processing data on usage of a website. Analytics platforms gather this data and show it in an online dashboard. Often this is done in or close to real time. This is an important process to understand how people are interacting with your website. Website analytics is the original digital analytics and paved the way for many different types of analytics over time. Yet it remains a solid staple and reliable tool for… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 6, 2023

Analytics

On July 1, 2023, this property will stop processing data.

You may have logged into Google Analytics and found this notice: On July 1, 2023, this property will stop processing data. Starting in March 2023, for continued website measurement, you should create a new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) property, or one will be created for you based on your original property and reusing existing site tags. The transition is underway from Universal Analytics to GA4. Many folks are taking this opportunity, to also explore other analytics solutions like… Continue reading

Ben Young

February 1, 2023

Analytics

Guide to Campaign Analytics

Campaign analytics is the process of collecting & analyzing data on advertising & marketing campaigns. The aim of campaign analytics is to provide a feedback loop for how the campaign is going, and to make adjustments to improve the overall outcomes. This can be a challenging exercise, to collect the data, and get signal from it in a fast enough time frame. Often analytics teams rely on multiple tools to get the understanding they need.  Read more: Nudge… Continue reading

Ben Young

January 17, 2023

Analytics

How does pricing in the Analytics industry work?

You might ask, why does the price of Analytics companies vary? You can see the price vary from free to seven figures. The cost basis of these companies, is talent, infrastructure and R&D. With some of the offerings, more of your money is going to one of these three buckets. The way analytics companies incur cost is with more traffic/events. So pricing tends to follow that scale. With some rounding out for R&D and the level of talent put towards each… Continue reading

Ben Young

December 7, 2022