With the holiday rush and any post-holiday orders over, now’s a good time to dig into your results. Ideally you tracked your traffic and orders which will make things easier (e.g. Google’s UTM codes). Even if you didn’t, you might be able to look at the timing of orders to see which campaigns where active. (And …
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Time to unwrap your year end Shopify store data
With the year now over, it’s a good time to evaluate how you did. Take some time this week to pull all of last year’s data and analyze it: what traffic sources and campaigns brought the most customers? what was the most successful campaigns? how many orders did you receive? how many customers ordered? what …
Importing data into Google Analytics for a better analysis
Recently a customers asked about getting historic data into Google Analytics: I’d love to know how to get Shopify data (prior to embedding Google tracking code) on to Google Analytics to see previous years data. At first I didn’t think that was possible but after a bit of searching I found Google’s Data Import that …
That dread that comes from not knowing your important numbers
For a few months I’ve had a worry about a key metric of my business. My gut was telling me it was a major problem but there was no way to know for sure with my current analytics. So finally yesterday I wrote some code to extract the data and analyze it. When I finished, …