Google Analytics: Behavior Flow

With Google Analytics Users Flow, you can choose the Source dimension to see how users from different websites are navigating your website.  You could use the Customize Dimensions Items by hitting the little sprocket to the right of the pull down menu to limit the number of sources to as little as one and as many as five. This helps give you a cleaner looking report that’s easier to understand and makes a better presentation. Read More …

Twitter Cards

If you’re tweeting your own links in public (and you know who you are), you should have Twitter Cards enabled on your website. You’ve seen them, even if you don’t know what they’re called. Expanded tweets that have extra text and images, or sometimes video. Some of them probably stand out in your timeline without being expanded. Read More …

Content Delivery Networks – Couldflare vs Incapsula

When comparing Cloudflare and Incapsula, I would look at other cumulative statistics in Google Analytics, server bandwidth, Webalizer and AWStats. I was also curious about server outage resilience (would the cached website still be up when the server was down?). Overall ease of set up and use is also a consideration. Each content delivery network (CDN) provider also comes with it’s own set of tools, measurements and analytics. Read More …