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Google Analytics (GA4)

GA4 is Google's web analytics platform. It tracks who visits a website, how they got there, what they do once on the website, and whether they complete actions that matter to the business. What it measures The current GA4 is built around an [...] Read more

3 min

Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager (GTM) lets you deploy and manage scripts ("tags") on a website without modifying its source code each time. After installing GTM's container snippet site-wide on a website, all subsequent tags — Google Analytics, Google Ads [...] Read more

3 min

Google Search Console

Google Search Console (GSC) is a Google tool that lets website owners see how their site performs in Google Search, along with any problems preventing it from being indexed and issues affecting its performance in search results. It is the primary [...] Read more

2 min

"Organic" traffic misattributed as "Direct" in Analytics

One of the most persistent frustrations in SEO and Organic reporting is watching the Direct channel grow with sessions that almost certainly began with a Google search, distorting channel reporting in the process. What "Direct" actually means Direct [...] Read more

5 min

Conversion rate optimization (CRO)

Conversion Rate Optimization is the practice of increasing the percentage of visitors who complete a desired action: buying a product, submitting a form, signing up, or any other goal that matters to a business. It sits at the intersection of [...] Read more

5 min

UX optimization (user experience)

User experience (UX) refers to the whole of a person's interaction with a website or system — how easy it is to use, whether it's intuitive, whether there are points of frustration, and how well it facilitates what they came to do. This breadth is [...] Read more

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