Safari 4 Beta distorts Web Analytics

There is an interesting article over at Formatur.de (in German) that talks about Apple’s release of Safari 4 beta and its potential impact on web analytics. The contention is that due to Safari’s new Coverflow-like feature to display the most visited sites, Safari makes regular “hidden” visits in the background to update its screenshots in [...]

Is Google Analytics Being Evil?

There is an interesting article over on Sitepoint and originally broken by Michael VanDeMar about recent tests Google has been conducting to offer AJAX search instead of the standard HTML search it currently offers. Essentially, AJAX is supposed to improve the user experience by speeding up search. Besides some Firefox plugins possibly no longer working, [...]

Whitepaper on Managing Web Analytics Projects

I am proud to release a white paper today together with my colleague Markus Hällgren from the Umeå School of Business and Economics. Despite the abundance of high quality white papers, blogs and books on web analytics available today, we continue to observe web analytics implementations that fall short of expectations. This paper is largely [...]

How to access Google Analytics on your iPhone

What’s the best way to get your Google Analytics stats on your iPhone? I have used three methods, each of which has benefits as well as limitations.

The first and most obvious method is to simply log in to your account via Safari, and it works surprisingly well. Essentially all reports are available including the new [...]