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From CRAP to CARE – Level up your digital analytics game

Does your organization struggle to provide a return on investments in digital analytics? Many organizations collect and report digital analytics data from their websites, but unfortunately, they often fail to derive insights and take action based on those insights.

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Piwik PRO tag manager or GTM?

Should you use Piwik PRO tag manager or Google Tag Manager for implementing Piwik PRO?

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Seven reasons to migrate from Google Analytics to Matomo Analytics

Should you migrate from Universal Analytics to Matomo Analytics? It might be a good idea!

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Matomo event tracking using data attributes & Matomo Tag Manager

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to read html data attributes with Matomo Tag Manager and use them for event tracking.

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How to use Google Analytics & Google Tag Manager as SEO crawler

In these slides and my conference talk (from 2020), I’ll show you how to use GTM together with Universal Analytics as a SEO crawler.

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Send event nonInteraction field as custom dimension to Universal Analytics

A note from 2026: This post is from 2018. Skip it if you’re looking for current advice. This is about Universal Analytics event tracking using Google Tag Manager. Universal Analytics is gone. GA4 is its replacement. And honestly? I don’t recommend either of them anymore. Here’s why I’m keeping this post up: It was useful […]

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How to document Silktide Cookie Consent clicks with Universal Analytics events

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with all kinds of cookie consent solutions for WordPress. Every plugin I have tested has the same problem: they provide no way of documenting the consent hopefully given by the user.

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How to use office hours as a custom dimension in Universal Analytics

Creating a weekly heatmap of traffic or conversions is one of my favorite data visualisation tips for Google Analytics users. Sometimes this level of granularity just obscures the most important time related features of the data.