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Website Analytics

The latest Website Analytics news from our blog

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Website Analytics
Camilo Pires

‘Microsoft Clarity’ now available to use!

To understand user behaviour and improve your site ranking, analytics is one of the most useful tools! Microsoft has made available their free-to-use analytics product called ‘Clarity’. This blog post will explain the benefits of using Clarity and how you can enable it.

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Website Analytics
Andy Smart

Matomo is a full-featured web analytics platform that rivals Google

Formerly known as Piwik, Matomo is a full-featured web analytics platform. A key difference to Google Analytics, though, is their approach to data, with its promise of 100% data ownership (data gathered via Google belongs to – and is used by – Google!). Here at O’Brien Media, we hold privacy close to our hearts, so it’s perhaps natural that we recommend Matomo to our clients!

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Website Analytics
Chris O'Brien

Traffic from Google Search App showing in website analytics

Over the past few weeks we've noticed an increasing number of visits to websites at use our website analytics service, along with visitors to websites that use Google Analytics, showing up with a referring website (referrer) of "com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox" – while this may seem a bit cryptic it's not spam or other suspicious traffic and is in fact shown for visitors coming to your website from Google's Android Search App.

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Website Analytics
Chris O'Brien

Keeping our customers informed with our new monthly website performance reports

Hot on the heels of the "Year in review" website statistics email we sent out in January to clients who use our website hosting and analytics platform for their websites that summarised website performance during 2014 we're pleased to launch our new monthly website performance reports.