Google Analytics is a really powerful and feature rich platform, which provides you with a wide-range of reports straight out of the box. Simply adding the JavaScript snippet with the tracking code on your pages fuels a growing list of … Read More
Safari update – Edge cases tracking without compromising UX
Tracking form submissions, pdf downloads, virtual pageviews etc, sometimes can become a bit problematic and the data collected not always accurate. That is because on some occasions the user is redirected to another page too quickly and the request to … Read More
Google Tag Manager – Native Scroll Depth Tracking – Merkle|Periscopix Blog
I’ve been writing about scroll depth tracking an on a few occasions now on my personal blog, but I have also got an article up on the blog of the company I work for – Merkle|Periscopix. Below, you can see … Read More
*Update* Scroll Depth Tracking – Google Tag Manager native implementation
Since the introduction of the Scroll Depth Tracking – Google Tag Manager native solution which included the introduction of a new trigger that natively handles the scroll depth tracking, a few bugs have been spotted. The trigger has no working … Read More
Scroll Depth Tracking – Google Tag Manager native implementation
*Update* There are a few known bugs to consider before going further with this implementation. Take a look at this post. Page Depth Tracking is one of the essential things you should implement to gather a better insight of how … Read More
How to exclude internal traffic from Google Analytics. WordPress – Google Tag Manager setup
When analysing your website data, one important thing to consider is what data is relevant for you and what is not. Excluding the data generated by developers or website administrators makes a lot of sense, as what they usually do … Read More
How to manually add Google Tag Manager to a WordPress website
What is Google Tag Manager? Simply put, Google Tag Manager is a user-friendly solution that allows you to add and maintain HTML/JavaScript snippets that send data to third-parties, on your website or mobile app. Instead of adding multiple scripts on … Read More
Scroll Depth Tracking – Google Tag Manager Implementation with jQuery
If you have a blog, content site or single page site chances are you will be interested in understanding how far the users go through your pages. That additional insight of how users consume your content can be achieved by … Read More
JavaScript Moussaka Recipe
Cooking and programming. The two seems to have nothing in common, but I think they are very similar. There are many aspects that can be transferred and applied from one of the fields to the other. Let’s take a look … Read More
JavaScript RGB/Hex Color Game
I did this app a few months ago as part of a course to freshen up my javascript programming skills. The game is pretty simple, but while getting the game together I went through some core principles of the language: … Read More