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Users who are visiting your website. If a visitor generates more than one visit, we can consider the label of returning visitor.
Most analytics tools set cookies for all visitors to later identify new and returning visitors.
Metrics associated with visitors:
Read more about how to keep your visitors in our blog post: Exit intent pop-ups: ins and outs of keeping visitors on your site
While collecting more data “just in case” feels safer, according to Matt Gershoff, it’s also one of the biggest sources of unnecessary compliance risk, analytical noise, and wasted organizational resources in the analytics industry today. His approach of “just enough” data collection is more intentional, more aligned with privacy regulation, and often more analytically effective.
Healthcare organizations have four main approaches to achieving HIPAA-compliant analytics. Each has different trade-offs in cost, technical complexity, and analytics capabilities. This guide compares all four implementation methods – from using Google Analytics with workarounds to deploying fully HIPAA-compliant analytics platforms – so you can choose the right approach for your organization’s needs and resources.
