Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager: the hub for your tracking and testing snippets
  • Web analytics

Tools for recording and analyzing user behavior are part of everyday life for website operators. Yet the more codes you need to embed and keep track of, the more difficult and time-intensive the task becomes. How can you keep track of everything? The Google Tag Manager offers the perfect answer. Here you will learn how the tool created by the search engine giant works and how you can make best use...

Google Tag Manager: the hub for your tracking and testing snippets
Overview of the Best Website Traffic Checkers
The best free website traffic checkers at a glance
  • Web analytics

A website traffic checker quickly gives you an overview of how many visitors your website attracts and how they get to your website. It is important to answer the following questions: How successful is your page? Is cooperation worthwhile? A website traffic check is particularly useful in the context of competition analysis. Here we introduce six free tools that allow you to evaluate traffic...

The best free website traffic checkers at a glance
SWOT analysis - How to create a positional analysis
What is a SWOT analysis?
  • Web analytics

A SWOT analysis links internal inquiries with environmental analyses. The comparisons of strengths and weaknesses of individual business areas as well as external chances and risks make it possible to position a company in the competitive environment. The goal of such an analysis is to identify potentials and threats. The results of the SWOT analysis are presented in the form of a matrix and...

What is a SWOT analysis?
Essential Conversion Optimization Tips for Your Website
40+ Essential Conversion Optimization Tips for Your Website
  • Web analytics

If you’re looking for that magical formula that transforms your website into a money-making machine, I’m sad to say there isn’t one – or at least, not one single one that does the trick. It’s more of a combination of techniques that you’ll undoubtedly have to tweak as you go – and then test according to your customer’s online behavior. If you’re looking to better convert your site’s visitors...

40+ Essential Conversion Optimization Tips for Your Website
Referral spam: causes and countermeasures
Referral spam: attack patterns and countermeasures
  • Web analytics

Do you find that lots of the traffic that arrives on your site comes from suspicious sources? There’s no need to worry since website operators encounter inconsistencies in reports from analysis tools (such as Google Analytics, Piwik, or etracker). The reason: referral spam falsifies visitor statistics. Learn how hackers can manipulate referrer information and traffic data, as well as which...

Referral spam: attack patterns and countermeasures
Testing-Tools: a guide to A/B testing programs
Testing-Tools: The best applications for A/B testing
  • Web analytics

Website optimization is more than just SEO: throughout your efforts to optimize your own website for Google etc., you should not lose sight of the actual person who is visiting the site. Factors such as usability, design, and content are critical when it comes to achieving the desired conversions. Anyone who does not want to be restricted to a single version from the beginning can use A/B testing...

Testing-Tools: The best applications for A/B testing
Google Data Studio for visual data analyses
Google Data Studio: setting the scene with your data
  • Web analytics

Data analysis is a purely theoretical matter for most people. But in order to provide the customer with information, it’s important to be able to visualize sets of data. With Google Data Studio, you can summarize data from different sources into one handy report. Our guide gives you an overview of Google’s latest offering.

Google Data Studio: setting the scene with your data
What is geo-targeting?
Geo-targeting: the regional optimization of web content and how it works
  • Web analytics

Geotargeting is a unique way of directly addressing a target group using its geographical information. Many websites and applications used on mobile devices use the device data in order to locate their users. Knowing an individual user’s location allows website owners and app providers to tailor their content and advertising directly to the user in his or her respective region. But geotargeting...

Geo-targeting: the regional optimization of web content and how it works
Log analysis: User statistics from the server log
Log analysis: What the web server log reveals about your visitors
  • Web analytics

How many pages are accessed by a single user when they’re visiting your website? And which links or search queries did they use to lead them to you? To answer such questions, well-known web analysis tools like Google Analytics seem to be the only option. But the web server’s automatically generated log file also provides a solid foundation for user information. The following guide discusses the...

Log analysis: What the web server log reveals about your visitors
How does tag management work?
Tag management: basics & systems
  • Web analytics

What’s important here is: data, data, data. Big data is no longer a buzzword and web analysis has become one of the most important disciplines in the context of marketing. After all, you can’t optimize your website and increase your conversion rate if you don’t understand the user by closely tracking their activities. A basic requirement of web analysis is to collect user information using...

Tag management: basics & systems