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Single customer view (SCV): what is it and how does it work?
The summary If modern marketing was a car, data would be its fuel. Data helps marketers form and adjust their strategy, drive their decisions and evaluate the effectiveness of their campaigns. With consumers constantly generating vast amounts of data, marketers have a lot of information they can use to grasp their needs and interests. The…
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How to migrate to a new analytics platform: The ultimate guide
Changing analytics platforms is difficult. Even when organizations don’t feel like they are getting value from their current analytics, they tend to keep it because switching to a new one often includes the following: After sunsetting Universal Analytics (UA) on July 1, 2023, and replacing it with Google Analytics 4, many professionals who have used…
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70-point comparison of 7 tag managers
Tags are snippets of JavaScript used to collect and manage the data flow between websites and mobile apps, and third-party tools, such as analytics platforms or marketing vendors. For over a decade, tag managers (also called tag management systems or TMS) have helped analysts create, organize and test a huge variety of tags for data…
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Event-based web analytics: Everything you need to know
Session-based and event-based analytics platforms are usually grouped together under the headline “web analytics”. However, lumping them all under the same category is a bit misleading. Both kinds of tracking allow you to track a similar amount of details, yet they measure them differently and require a different set of analytical skills. Traditional session-based web…
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Universal Analytics vs. Google Analytics 4: Data models and other key differences explained
The switch from Universal Analytics (GA3 or UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) means dealing with tons of changes, one of them being the different data models they use. GA3’s data model is based on sessions and page views, while GA4’s is based on events and parameters. This means that the two analytics platforms collect,…
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6 key Google Analytics limitations
This blog post was originally published on December 10th, 2019 with the title 4 Key Google Analytics drawbacks you won’t realize until it’s too late Google Analytics is the most widely used web analytics solution on the market. It offers a variety of features, was created by the most popular brands in the world, and…
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Analytics implementation: A 12-step guide (Tracking plan included)
A proper web analytics implementation is necessary to gather accurate insights from your visitors’ behavior and make data-based decisions that will help you improve your business. But creating the right analytics configuration requires you to factor in many aspects, such as: There will be a lot of writing, testing, and double-checking. But we’ve got you…
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11 new privacy laws around the world and how they’ll affect your analytics
It seems that privacy on the web has never been so widely discussed. The abundance of data breaches and controversies around Big Tech giants made us realize how modern technology can erode our privacy. The response to this is the growing number of new laws that regulate how companies and organizations should handle users’ data.
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Piwik PRO meets the SOC 2 standard
We are proud to announce that, after a year of hard work, Piwik PRO Analytics Suite is now SOC 2 type II-certified. External auditors have confirmed that Piwik PRO Analytics Suite services delivered from Microsoft Azure fulfill the commitments and system requirements based on the trust principle of security. Piwik PRO Analytics Suite’s framework of…
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Denmark’s data protection authority says Google Analytics is illegal under GDPR
In recent months, we’ve seen a domino effect of decisions by European data protection authorities (DPA) concerning Google Analytics (GA). On January 12, 2022, the Austrian DSB released its ruling in the case of an unnamed German web publisher. The regulator stated that working with Google Analytics to collect data on EU residents is unlawful…
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