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Client-Side vs. Server-Side vs. sGTM: An Expert’s Guide to Modern Web Measurement

Repeatedly I see confusion in the community about the terms and that is why I wrote this article to explain the differences and advantages and disadvantages of sGTM.

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Take Back Control: Why Your Business Must Own Its Domains, Data, and Accounts

In recent days, I came across a troubling case where an agency owned a client’s domain. The moment the business owner wanted to switch providers or make changes, they hit a wall – and it turned into a massive problem.

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Back to Basics: Why Clean Data Trumps Advanced Analytics

In the past 2-3 years, I’ve found myself constantly returning to the fundamentals of analytics.

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Measuring bots in Google analytics 4: Find out how search engines crawl your website

What is it? The following PHP script measures your site’s bots/crawlers to Google analytics 4.

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How to get rid of referral spam in Google analytics 4?

Spam has returned to Google analytics again. A little nostalgia for Google Universal Analytics? I’ve come across it on several projects, somewhere it’s less visible and somewhere more. Mostly, it’s driving up the numbers of smaller projects.

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Summary 2023 – personal life

Like every year, I make a note. In short, a challenging year, but nothing terrible. Lots of experiences.

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Alternatives to Google analytics 4

I’m writing the article sort of in response to panic and frequent questions… what to do next if I liked Universal analytics I hate GA4? Are there any alternatives? I get asked this quite a lot.