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How Google Analytics Collects, Processes, and Displays Data

By chco : 23 August 2010 - 03:14 PM
The following excerpt from Google Analytics explains how Google Analytics collects and processes your site data. Understanding how the data is collected and processed will help you understand how bes...
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Services that Provide Realtime Analytics

By chco : 28 July 2010 - 02:45 PM
This excerpt from Building the Realtime Experience gives an overview and examination of some of the realtime analytics services that are available.Noticing the gap in time between the actual page view...
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Outbound click-thru?

Asked by FSiepenkothen : 14 May 2010 - 03:01 PM

Answered by sarahkim : May 18 2010 06:53 AM
You can use redirects to accomplish this. Create a URL on company A's website that redirects to company B's website. Then you can track how many times the redirect URL was clicked. Here'... full answer >
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How Twitter followers propagate information by Alistair Croll of Bitcurrent

By filmbilly : 10 December 2009 - 09:13 PM
Alistair Croll co-author (with Sean Power) of Complete Web Monitoring shared this little nugget of information at Web 2.0 Expo in NYC regarding the way in which Twitter followers propagate information...
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Is Google Chrome faster than Firefox, Safari, Opera, and IE?

Asked by MikeH : 10 November 2009 - 01:01 PM

Answered by anoren : Nov 10 2009 05:30 PM
It depends on the testing protocol, of which there are m a n y. This article helped me to understand some, but not all, of the factors that go into a valid and robust test. [attachment=481:Picture 7... full answer >
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How to Use Voice of the Customer (VOC) Surveys

By simonstl : 06 November 2009 - 06:12 PM
Sometimes you just have to ask your customers what they like and what they want. This excerpt from Complete Web Monitoring, by Alistair Croll and Sean Power, explores how to connect directly with the ...
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Using Microsoft Excel for Statistics

By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 01:03 PM
Microsoft Excel is, properly speaking, not a statistical package at all, although it is sometimes used as one. Excel is a spreadsheet application produced by Microsoft Corporation that is frequently u...
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Using R for Statistics

By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 12:23 PM
R is a programming language that functions as a statistical package because of the many pre-written statistical routines (computer code written to perform a particular task) that are available. It dif...
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Using SAS for Statistics

By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 11:43 AM
SAS is a statistical software package that was developed at North Carolina State University in the 1960s, and since 1976 has been a commercial product sold by SAS Institute. It is another step up in c...
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Using SPSS for Statistics

By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 10:59 AM
SPSS is a general-purpose statistical computing package sold by SPSS, Inc., which was first released in 1968. It is widely used by social scientists (the name originally meant Statistical Package for ...
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