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Re: The scourge of web analytics

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Post by skinnymuch » Thu, Jun 01, 2017, 12:50 AM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #72

skinnymuch wrote: post #25

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Genuine question since you mentioned probably removing StumbleUpon. Does anyone share with Google+?

It depends on your audience. There are more tech communities on Google+ than any other in my experience.

Ah yeah for sure. I guess I was specifically asking for you. That's why I didn't want it sounding like I'm just dismissing Google+. If you don't want to share, that's fine.

Re: The scourge of web analytics

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Post by gator-io » Thu, Jun 01, 2017, 5:03 AM UTC

cm2012 wrote: post #53

gator-io wrote: post #34

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Why would scale matter?

As a small company, you are barely affecting Google's targeting algorithms on your own.

They target individual users based on their browsing history. Scale doesn't matter.

Re: The scourge of web analytics

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Post by jackgolding » Thu, Jun 01, 2017, 7:19 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #71

jackgolding wrote: post #70

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Between analytics tools and marketing? You are right by name nothing, however in general if you look in the network tab some on content sites (especially crappy slow ones) you will see ads and other pixels being loaded onto the site as time goes on. Leave certain sites for an hour and they will make hundreds of extra requests.

Oh, by marketing you mean ads and things like that? I thought you meant optimization tools like A/B testing and similar services.

A/B testing tools slow down sites a lot but yeah I was referring to remarketing pixels or publisher side pixels