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How do I make Google Analytics actionable?
Google Analytics (and similar) gives you a ton of numbers on every conceivable axis.
For me, I get lost in the options, filters, and numbers. How do I turn this pile of data into actionable choices?
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How to be data-driven startup (and handle spiders from search engines)?
I am curious on how some of you adopt data-driven approach to your startups.
Recently, i did an experiment with simple AB testing tool like A/Bingo:
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo/
Through ...
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Writing a Terms of Service for my iPhone app that uses Google Analytics
I'm finding a resource for writing a TOC for my app that uses Google Analytics to analyze content traffic.
I don't hire a lawyer and just plan to copy from someone else.
Could you please point out ...
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Real time visitor tracking
I've just started my journey and am wondering what tools do you use for the real-time tracking of visitor activity on the site?
I know there are tools like Mint and Google Analytics which give you a ...
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Cheap alternative to Performable
I love the concept of www.performable.com however pricing is ridiculously expensive for a small-medium startups.
Is there any cheap alternative for Performable?
I'm actually interested in customer ...
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What have you used to build a business intelligence dashboard?
We're putting together a dashboard that highlights some key metrics (helpdesk performance, website performance, distribution, reach, cost centres, digital asset volume, etc) do any of you have ...
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How to redirect to another website with tracking?
Our website promotes a web-based application that's actually on another site (in the ebay.com apps center). When someone hits the "sign up" button on our website, it implements a redirect as it takes ...
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Recommendations on analytics approaches for web startups
Like most startups with a focus on quick execution and conservation of cash, we're looking for a good-enough analytics solution that provides us the minimum of amount of business specific measurement ...
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How to use google analytics for growing my business
I recently set up a website and inserted GA code to the website. I am using the GA tool (well, looking at the numbers), but apart from the obvious numbers like #visitors, bounce rate etc, I am a litle ...
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What tools do you use to monitor your brand and links?
Other than google alerts...
I'd like to know anytime "StarStreet" "sports stock market" "starstreetsports.com" are mentioned. Anything out there I should be using in addition to google alerts?
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There are so many things to measure — what's the best way to keep track of it all?
As a startup, we have to measure web analytics, funnel metrics, conversions, competition trackers, ROI on campaigns, etc. There's lots to keep track of and a lot of different software (google ...
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Can I give Google Analytics data to my customers?
Can I give Google Analytics data from the API as a free gift feature to my customers that are paying for a monthly subscription service? Or would this be outside of Googles terms of service.
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Blog that covers Social Media tools and Social Media analysis
I'm familiar with Mashable.com, but what I'm looking for is a blog or site that just covers social media tools. By tools I'm referring to things that help you analyze the social web. Below are some ...
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Web Analytics: Identifying referral traffic from sites on HTTPS
As Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites implement https the referral data in analytics tools is becoming less accurate, e.g. HTTPS traffic comes with a blank referer and appears as direct ...
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Which metrics solution provides the most actionable insights?
I am considering incorporating better metrics software on my site. The three option I am most familiar are Google Analytics, KISSmetrics, and MixPanel. Any thoughts on the pros/cons of each would be ...
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Looking for a tool to find search trends in Facebook
I am looking for an analytics tool à la Google keyword but for Facebook.
I'd like to find info about how many people search for X and Y in Facebook search field.
Is there anything like Google ...
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Hosted Quizzes and Polls Platform
I am looking for a hosted Quizzes and Polls platform that has following features
Create customized Quizzes and Polls
Be able to embed these Quizzes and Polls on my site
The platform should provide ...
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What's the most compact solution for a new website with split testing?
I meet a lot of wantrepreneurs who are very smart but not at all into the plumbing of websites. They totally get concepts such as minimum viable product and split testing, and they want to be hands-on ...
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Tracking Variance - Google and Yahoo
We use Google Analytics to track metrics on our site. I'm doing search engine marketing with both Google and Yahoo. There is a HUGE difference in the visits we "see" on our site vs. what Google and ...
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Easiest way to track users and metrics in MVP?
I'm working on a very early stage web app, and I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to track some basic user metrics beyond traffic and all that.
Some context:
Limited budget - free or cheap is ...
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How do startups select relevant performance indicators?
Performance Indicators in existing businesses that have a defined business model and market are much easier to identify performance indicators for.
Within startup businesses, are there any ...
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Which metrics are more appropriate for landing page?
right know I have an idea that would like to test out and would like to know which metrics are regularly used to understand why people are signing in or not.
So far I have just Google Analytics, and ...
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How can I set up a way to automatically calculate (goal number/new visitors) in Google Analytics
I have set up a goal which will count the amount of sign ups I get on my site. I need to divide this number by the amount of new visitors in order to get my conversation rate.
From what I can tell, ...
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How do you measure “momentum” for investors or a Board of Directors?
There are so many ways to measure an online web application business, of course the most important being revenue.
Imagine you've got a board meeting coming up or a meeting with your investors, what ...
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Difference between unqiue user count in compete and google analytics
I use google analytics to analyze the visitors , no of pages visited and other stats for my web site Skill-guru
I have also added my site on compete.com . I was looking at unique visitors count on ...
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Why did Instagram make it over other similar apps?
There are couple of apps similar to Instagram, such as Hipster, Pixl-o-matic, Lightbox, PicPlz & Retro Camera.
Why did Instagram make it over the others?
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Web analytics tool of choice for startups
What is the best (preferred) free and/or paid web analytics tool(s) available for startups?
EDIT: Can any free web analytics really compare to a paid web analytics tool?
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Does putting Google Analytics' and Clicktale's code onto our password protected Alpha site expose the content?
We are launching a new site this summer and will have the Alpha version available shortly. We'll be testing this privately with a small group of trusted people before we do our public launch. To ...
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How are you using analytics to better understand your market and clients?
There is an increasing amount of data that can be easily gathered about each and every interaction you have with your clients as well as an increasing amount of publicly available information that can ...
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Experience with service to record user mouse moves and clicks
Does anyone have experience with a service that let you see how visitors use a website by showing mouse moves and clicks?
I see that clicktale.com is doing just that.
Any recommendation?
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Increase traffic from other search engines
I took a look at my Google analytics report under Top Traffic Sources:
(direct) ((none)) 29.16%
google (organic) 25.59%
yahoo (organic) 5.48%
facebook.com (referral) ...
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How do I get answers to complex analytics questions?
I use Flurry and Mixpanel specifically to track users behavior in my apps, but the question is fundamentally solution agnostic.
What do you do to understand better the complex and interesting ...
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From software developer to a Data Analyst role? - Good or Not? [closed]
I'm a software developer with around 5 yrs of work experience in Java/J2EE technologies. I have an offer for a new project in my company where the work would be of Data Analysis. Basically we would be ...
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Importance Of Alexa Ranking
I'm a newbie blogger and I'm bit confused to see the people craving for Alexa ranks.I've got nice Google PR for my blog.Despite good PR Is it really necessary to build up the site or blog to match the ...
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does anyone know how to calculate a viral coefficient automatically through google analytics? [closed]
If my conversion is a user sign up. Can I tie google analytics to this and create a viral coefficient graph that is spit out automatically? How could we achieve something to make this easier? this has ...
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How much equity is normal for a programming VC to take for developing a mobile app?
I'm in the process of developing a mobile app for a niche industry B to C. We have an established brand in 17 countries (hard goods)and significant credibility in our industry. It's not, but as an ...
