Here’s again the last post of the month saved for the top 5 interesting Google Analytics related resources I found on other sites. Here are the five for October – you may want to bookmark those as they can be very useful:
Ad Blockers & Analytics: What Webmasters Should Know And Do
As Apple announced they would allow third-party development of “content blocking” apps in iOS 9, Crystal became one of the most downloaded paid apps from the App Store in just a few days. This article shows how an ad blocker works and offers a workaround to ensure you can deliver most web page content and retrieve analytics data.
Are Your Analytics Telling the Right Story?
Thought-provoking blog post at Moz about how to find stories to tell in your analytics data. You’ll find some suggestions, helpful resources and 3 true stories.
25 Calculated Metrics for Google Analytics
Google Analytics released a long requested feature – Calculated metrics, derived metrics from standard and/or custom metrics. You can make any combination of standard metrics with or without custom metrics using standard arithmetic operators like multiplication, division, addition and subtraction to build calculated metrics. + 25 examples
21 Item Google Analytics Checklist When Changing Your Domain
A helpful checklist from E-Nor to help you transition to a new domain. It focuses on some key areas of your analytics setup that you should review before and after your transition (including a few additional suggestions to maintain SEO best practices).
Tracking Form Submissions in Iframes – Google Analytics & Iframes, Pt 1
This is part I of blog posts series about common issues and solutions when Google Analytics and iframes should work together. It covers the most common issue – tracking simple, one-off things like events or form submissions within iframes.
The Best Google Analytics Tools & Addons
Another helpful list of GA tools and addons this time from Brian Clifton. The table booster, annotations manager and confidence checker seem very interesting!
P.S. Got a Google Analytics question? Send it to me and I’ll try to answer it on the blog.
Margarita Evtimova
Margarita Evtimova is a Google Analytics fan, who also loves SEO, conversion optimization, online marketing and social media. You can follow her on Twitter and LinkedIn.