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March 3, 2008
Hi folks,
the title says it all so please bear with us while we redecorate… 🙂
In the wake of the recent acquisition of OX2 by the LBi group, one of items on the agenda for our web analytics team is to get this blog off wordpress.com and back to our ox2.eu domain. The reason might be obvious to most bloggers out there but I’ll lay them out here for good measure:
- Hosting your own copy of the WordPress blog platform means you have complete control over how the application is configured, how it looks and behaves.
- Custom CSS cost money and you cannot add plug-ins. Not that we’re stingy (it’s only $10 a year) but the best WordPress has to offer in terms of customization is switching to the K2 template and play around with widgets.
- In France we have a saying to the effect of “shoemakers usually wear the worst shoes”. Well, in the web analytics department, I think we can all agree that, while at least providing basic site metrics, WordPress fails to provide meaningful reporting on the blog’s activity. This is a corollary to the aforementioned lack of customization. You will have to admit that this particular subject is annoying, especially when you run a blog about web analytics… and don’t get me started with WordPress saying you cannot run two instances of Google Analytics on the same page 😛
There you have it, we’re moving!
Over the course of this week, we will be taking steps to redirect the blog to its new home.
Please note the new blog’s URL: http://webanalytics.ox2.eu
The redirect from WordPress should occur flawlessly, meaning links you may have to a post on the current blog will point to a copy of that post on the new blog. This should go for RSS feeds as well but it won’t hurt to update your bookmarks and RSS readers 😉
Tags:blog, hosted, migration, relocation, server, transfer, wordpress
Posted in About us, Blogging, Google Analytics, Web Analytics | Comments Off on This blog is moving…
February 4, 2008
So you had all heard the news and many of us blogged about it right away: Omniture acquired Visual Sciences for an amount equal to half the GDP of a small African country, but I digress 😉
The convenient truth (that no one in the world of vendor partners will admit to) is this: it’s going to be a hell of a lot easier to market SiteCatalyst-class and Discover-class solutions, without having to have our clients choose between Omniture and Visual Sciences.
Let us look in detail at the new array of solutions being offered by the Jolly Green Giant (ho ho ho):
“Traditional” Omniture solutions:
- Omniture SiteCatalyst: with version 14 coming soon, this is undoubtedly the established standard for web analytics reporting. No surprise here.
- Omniture Discover: the Java-based 3D data exploration module that makes web data mining a breeze (notice how I bolded ‘web data’)
- Omniture Genesis: the hub module that ties together data from other solution partners for integration into SiteCatalyst
- Omniture TouchClarity: the BT (behavioral targeting) module
- Omniture Offermatica: the MVT (multi variable testing) module
- Omniture SearchCenter: the bid management tool (to bid on keyword auctions)
Rebranded former Visual Sciences solutions:
- HBX becomes… *drumroll* … SiteCatalyst HBX! As you can imagine, Omniture will no longer take on new HBX clients but will support existing customers until they eventually migrate to “regular” SiteCatalyst.
- Visual Site, Visual Sale, Visual Bid and Visual Search… Wellthey’re going the way of HBX so wait and see…
- Visual Workstation becomes … Discover On Premises! So far, everyone I have talked to agrees that the rebranding is misleading. Discover On Premises suggests that the product offers the same exploration capabilities as “regular” Discover but with the ability to host the solution in-house. Now when I bolded “web data” earlier, it was to emphasize the fact that Discover On Premises handles all sorts of marketing information: both web and offline data.
What about Platform 5 you ask? that’ s a question for a follow-up post 🙂
In the meantime, please leave your consitructive comments at the beep 🙂
Tags:discover, hbx, Omniture, premises, sciences, visual, workstation
Posted in Omniture, Thoughts and Ideas, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News | Comments Off on Omniture gets new toys
January 30, 2008
De retour de Paris après une journée à rallonge et un retour plus que mouvementé (le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous), je voulais vous faire part de mes impressions sur le 2ème Forum e-Marketing. Avant d’attirer des commentaires, je tenais à préciser que ce billet ne porte que sur la journée du mardi 29 janvier et ne prend pas en compte les interventions du mercredi 30.
Merci en tout cas à toute l’équipe de ebusiness.info pour cette organisation impeccable! Quoi qu’on en dise, cette édition du forum était nettement plus qualifiée que celle de février dernier.
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Tags:alenty, conférences, ebusiness, forum, internet, marketing, Omniture, paris, salon, xiti
Posted in Blogging, In French, Omniture, Visual Sciences, Web 2.0, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News, xiti | 1 Comment »
January 28, 2008
Road trip! 😀

Comme l’année précédente, OX2 sera présent en tant que visiteur au 2ème Forum E-Marketing qui aura lieu les 29 et 30 janvier au Palais de Congrès de Paris.
C’est pour nous une des étapes qui nous permettent de nous faire une idée plus fine de l’état de l’art et notamment dans le domain des web analytics.
Je vous conseille les deux séries de conférences de mardi:
Matin: des outils pour améliorer le R.O.I. des campagnes en ligne (1)
Après-midi: des outils pour améliorer le R.O.I. des campagnes en ligne (2)
Après le succès du salon e-Business organisé en septembre à Paris par e-business.info, on peut s’attendre à des présentations encore plus intéressantes et à un public encore plus qualifié que l’année dernière.
Avec ses 250 exposants, 150 conférences, et ses 12000 visiteurs attendus, le 2e Forum E-marketing est l’événement Internet pro de la rentrée. Un événement entièrement dédié au marketing. Trois nouveautés cette année : un focus sur le mobile marketing, le marketing comportemental et une nocturne le mardi, de 18h00 à 20h30. Pour profiter à fond de l’événement !
N’hésitez pas à me contacter au 06 15 08 27 68 pour organiser un point de chute et discuter entre deux conférences!
Posted in Web Analytics | Comments Off on OX2 au 2ème Forum E-Marketing les 29 et 30 janvier
January 25, 2008
Hey folks,
If you haven’t read about them yet, I suggest you take a look at Anil Batra‘s interviews of web analysts.
In the latest installment, our own David “Wandering Dave” Rhee answers Anil’s questions.
Excerpts:
What are the major challenges you are facing in this industry?
I think the entire industry is at a point where our ability to analyze goes beyond the ability of the tools to deliver unified data in a cost-effective manner. In other words, we can imagine many different data sets we’d like to correlate, but only very few of us can get the various data sources to play nicely with each other without spending an inordinate amount of time, effort, and money, most of which we don’t have access to.
Beyond that, most organizations aren’t yet at the point where they know how to take advantage of the insights web analytics, or rather, an analytics-framed mindset, can offer. As a consultant, I see mos firms struggling to implement a tool correctly, and after that, maybe to figure out some truly useful KPIs, then do some basic campaign analysis. Few organizations are at the point where multi-channel measurement is common, or where web analytics is used to help allocate marketing spend most effectively, or where true ROI is being captured, and good business decisions made accordingly.
Web analytics will mature as an industry, but part of that means that the skill sets will become better defined and more widespread, so that any firm that really needs an analyst will be able to hire one. Beyond that, web analytics and business intelligence will merge in terms of an aggressive approach to data analysis being applied to many areas of an organization — not just their web site, or even their online marketing, but all of the marketing, production, sales, and other operations. It’s neither easy nor cheap to get there, but I’m sure that those firms which can execute well on an analytics vision will certainly see unparalleled success.
Don’t forget to read other interviews, including the first interview in the series, featuring yours truly 😉
Tags:analytics, anil, batra, dave, david, interview, job, rhee, wandering, web
Posted in About us, Blogging, Thoughts and Ideas, Web Analytics | Comments Off on Anil Batra interviews another OX2 analyst
December 20, 2007
And now, an internationalized, English version of my previous post (in French, sorry) 🙂
A few months back, during our Web Analytics Day, Eric Peterson kept me mesmerized with his iPhone and I started counting the days when it would be made available in Europe. Then again, I gave in and visited an Apple Store while vacationing in the U.S. but that’s another story 😉
Anyway, as the Apple iPhone is gradually being launched across Europe (and eventually across the rest of the world), this phone is undoubtedly positioned as an ideal high-tech Xmas present, much to the pleasure of AT&T, O2, Orange and other telcos who signed exclusivity deals with Apple 🙂
No matter the take one may have on the topic of Apple’s marketing strategy, it is undeniable that the iPhone has left its footprint in the Web ecosystem. If only to comply with the excitement/hype/craze, quite a few sites have decided to make a copy of their site available for the iPhone. The first sign of the creation and adoption of iPhone-specific content can be seen in most web analytics tools, in which the market share for the Safari browser increases… but not linked to PCs or Macs! This increase in traffic, although somewhat modest, is an indication that Time Magazine’s gadget of the year is indeed an ideal portable Internet access terminal, with high usability and user friendliness.
Oh yes, and you can also use it as a phone 😀
Another telltale sign of iPhone activity is revealed in the screen resolutions report: check for a resolution of 320×396 pixels and bam! that’s iPhone traffic for you.

As you can imagine, the integrated Safari browser provides for a totally new web browsing experience for a mobile device with one major difference with other technologies: the iPhone does not provide you with access to mobile-specific web content but rather gives you access to mobile web content. (more…)
Tags:320, 396, analytics, browsing, cookies, iphone, safari, web
Posted in Blogging, Thoughts and Ideas, Web Analytics | 4 Comments »
December 18, 2007
Orange, le distributeur officiel de l’iPhone en France doit se frotter les mains car l’exclusivité qu’il a récemment signée avec Apple lui assure de faire de l’iPhone un super cadeau de Noël high-tech.
En effet, même s’il n’est arrivé officiellement en France que depuis quelques semaines, l’iPhone d’Apple a vraiment apposé son empreinte sur le Web depuis sa sortie aux USA au mois de juin. C’est particulièrement notable dans les rapports de nos outils de reporting préférés, où la part du navigateur Safari augmente… mais pas sur Mac ou PC 🙂
(more…)
Tags:320, 396, analytics, iphone, mobile, optimisation, resolution, sites, web
Posted in Blogging, In French, Thoughts and Ideas, Web Analytics | 2 Comments »
December 14, 2007

Great news for Google Analytics fans, December 13, 2007 marks the official arrival of the replacement to urchin.js we have all come to know and love (or hate) 🙂
The urchin.js tracking script has been downgraded to legacy status and should be phased out within the next 18 months or so.
The new ga.js code has a new syntax and comes with all sorts of bells and whistles to make your life easier and, let’s face it, spend more time hooked on GA 😉
Included with this update is the beta functionality that allows for the analysis of multiple metrics directly from the calendar interface. You may now select page views and visits for instance and compare them across time periods or against the entire site.
New tracking code and functionalities
If you look at your Google Analytics interface under Settings > Check Status, you will see that Google now offers both code snippets for the GATC (Google Analytics Tracking Code) that rely on the _getTracker method which generates a page tracking object with a host of new functions.
Here is what the code will look like: (more…)
Tags:analytics, code, ga.js, google, new, pagetracker, urchintracker, _getTracker, _trackPageview
Posted in Google Analytics, Technical tips and tricks, Web Analytics | 9 Comments »
December 13, 2007
C’est Noël avant la date pour Google Analytics avec
- Un nouveau code de suivi
- Un comparateur de mesures dans le calendrier
Nouveau code de suivi et nouvelles fonctionnalités
Dans votre interface d’administration de Google Analytics, si vous allez voir dans Paramètres > Vérifier l’état, vous verrez que Google vous propose le nouveau code de suivi (GATC ou Google Analytics Tracking Code) qui se sert de la méthode _getTracker pour créer un objet qui va ensuite mesurer le trafic de vos pages.
Voici un aperçu du code de base: (more…)
Tags:analytics, code, comparaison, ga.js, google, urchin
Posted in Google Analytics, In French, Technical tips and tricks, Web Analytics | 1 Comment »
December 11, 2007
Nouvel épisode de notre série des indicateurs clé de performance tiré de la traduction française du livre d’Eric Peterson The Big Book of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)!
Pourcentage de nouveaux visiteurs et d’habitués
Le pourcentage de nouveaux visiteurs et de visiteurs habitués est un KPI marketing qui fournit un indicateur de haut niveau de la santé générale de votre activité. (more…)
Tags:analytics, anayltique, eric, eric peterson, indicateur, indicateur clé de performance, indicateur performance, indicateurs clés de performance, key performance indicators, kpi, performance, peterson
Posted in Bible des KPIs, Business Tips and Tricks, Google Analytics, In French, Web Analytics, Web analytics Demystified | 2 Comments »
December 7, 2007
Ceci est le premier d’une série de bilets sur les Indicateurs Clés de Performance (en anglais Key Performance Indicators ou KPI) que vous retrouverez dans la version française du livre d’Eric Peterson, The Big Book of KPIs.
Chacun des indicateurs sera présenté de la manière suivante:
- Introduction: présentation rapide de l’indicateur
- Définition: définition et méthode de mesure de l’indicateur
- Présentation: comment présenter cet indicateur au sein d’autres rapports?
- Attente: à quelles valeurs faut-il s’attendre? comment étalonner l’indicateur?
- Action: comment traduire et indicateur en actions concrètes pour optimiser votre site?
Les mentions en gras et italique font référence à d’autres indicateurs décrit dans le livre.
Nous commençons donc cette série avec le coût moyen par visiteur:
Coût moyen par visiteur
Les coûts d’acquisition de visiteurs peuvent parfois atteindre des proportions astronomiques si on n’y fait pas attention. Si le contrôle de ces coûts est difficile, il porte ses fruits sur le long terme.
Définition
Le coût moyen par visiteur est fonction des sommes engagées pour l’acquisition de trafic et peut se définir ainsi: (more…)
Tags:analytics, anayltique, eric, eric peterson, indicateur, indicateur clé de performance, indicateur performance, indicateurs clés de performance, key performance indicators, kpi, performance, peterson
Posted in Bible des KPIs, In French, Thoughts and Ideas, Web Analytics | 1 Comment »
December 6, 2007
Après une petite pause au soleil bien méritée, notre équipe Web Analytics tenait à vous faire part d’une bonne nouvelle qui fait un peu calendrier de l’Avent: vous allez très bientôt pouvoir profiter de la version française du livre The Big Book of Key Performance Indicators d’Eric T. Peterson! Nous sommes en phase finale de traduction et son titre en français sera: La Bible des Indicateurs Clé de Performance (KPI)
En effet, grâce au fait qu’Eric est devenu actionnaire d’OX2 (en sus du partenariat avec sa société Web Analytics Demystified), nous mettrons très bientôt ce livre en version française disponibilité au format PDF et… nous vous donnerons même un avant-goût de ce livre en vous faisant partager quelques-uns de ces indicateurs grâce à notre blog d’ici la fin de l’année.
Restez attentifs, ça commence dès demain! 🙂
Tags:analytics, anayltique, eric, eric peterson, indicateur, indicateur clé de performance, indicateur performance, indicateurs clés de performance, key performance indicators, kpi, performance, peterson
Posted in About us, Bible des KPIs, Blogging, Business Tips and Tricks, In French, Thoughts and Ideas, Web Analytics, Web analytics Demystified | 8 Comments »
November 2, 2007
These are truly fascinating times for Web Analytics.
An article in the Portland Business Journal dated Oct.31st reveals thats WebTrends was hoping to be acquired by Omniture, who decided in favor of Visual Sciences.
Greg Drew, WebTrends’s CEO has now been replaced by Bruce T. Coleman.
Excerpts:
CEO Greg Drew and three other executives at WebTrends Inc. have left the company. Details of their departure remain unclear.
Pictures and biographies of each executive disappeared from the company’s Web site late Wednesday. Calls and a visit to the company, as well as a call to Drew, received no responses.
Drew had headed Portland-based Web analytics firm WebTrends for the past four years, and was part of the management team that took the company out as a separate enterprise from San Jose-based NetIQ Corp. in March 2005.
The WebTrends Web site now lists Bruce T. Coleman as CEO. He is CEO of El Salto Advisors, a consulting firm that provides interim management to computer software and service companies. He was most recently interim CEO of San Diego’s Websense until May 1999 and remains a director of that company.
[…] They speculate that with its market share slipping, WebTrends management wanted to sell the company to its biggest rival, Omniture Inc.
This particular piece of news begs the following questions:
- why would two companies that just recently launched major upgrades to their product lines want to be acquired?
- why sell to Omniture when WebTrends and Omniture have different views on Web Analytics?
- were Visual Sciences and WebTrends in the same race and aware of it?
- was Visual Sciences really favored over WebTrends? If so, what were the decisive factors in Omniture’s decision?
I am sure many people in the Web Analytics industry are as sad to see Greg Drew go as we are and wish him the best.
Thanks to Lars for pointing to the article!
As usual, constructive comments are welcome! 🙂
Posted in Omniture, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News, WebTrends | 4 Comments »
October 26, 2007
Omniture, le géant mondial des WA vient d’annoncer le rachat de son concurrent direct, Visual Sciences (anciennement connu sous le nom de WebSideStory) pour la coquette somme de 394 millions de dollars, soit un peu moins du quart de la valorisation d’Omniture.
Il y avait bien entendu des rumeurs sur le sujet, comme le soulignait Ian Thomas cet été.
Au-delà du montant de la transaction qui ne sera finalisée que l’année prochaine, ce rachat de VS permet à Omniture de consolider sa position de leader mais remet surtout en question l’équilibre de la concurrence entre les différents éditeurs.
Pour les partenaires d’Omniture ou de VS, la situation risque de devenir intéressante car ce rachat permettrait de proposer une gamme de solutions vraiment modulable même si je pressens que HBX va disparaître (à terme) au profit de SiteCatalyst. Il y aura donc tout un effort d’accompagnement des clients à ce moment-là.
Plus d’informations sur l’intégration des offres et services à partir de l’année prochaine 🙂
Liens:
Comme d’habitude, vos commentaires constructifs sont les bienvenus 🙂
Tags:achat, Omniture, omtr, Visual Sciences, vs
Posted in In French, Omniture, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News | 2 Comments »
October 26, 2007
Title says it all 🙂
An announcement by Jim MacIntyre goes:
Visual Sciences has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Omniture, Inc.
The press release announcing this acquisition is available for review on our website. Until regulatory review of the acquisition is complete and the transaction closes, both companies will continue to operate independently and will continue to compete in the marketplace. This means that we will continue to deliver the products, service and support that your businesses can rely on.We understand that you will have questions about the future of the products lines. Future direction for products will be determined following the closing of the transaction and after comprehensive planning and feedback from customers and partners.
There we have it folks; I personally like to think of it as the integration of the best of both worlds.
Let’s see how this develops 🙂
Links:
Tags:Omniture, Visual Sciences, vs
Posted in Omniture, Visual Sciences, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Industry News | Comments Off on Omniture in the process of buying Visual Sciences
October 2, 2007
EDIT: As of 2011, Google shut down iGoogle widget API, this KPI dashboard is now obsolete
A while back, I was raving about the Google Analytics KPI dashboard module for iGoogle (by the good folks at Monitus). It seems they just went ahead and published a v2 of their dashboard tool.
If you had it installed already, you will notice an additional drop-down menu that helps you categorize your site and eventually, the get the best KPIs for your site and to compare your site against industry peers. Also, you can now enable/disable the KPIs you wish to see on the dashboard.
Go on to their site, take the tour and view the video they made to cover v2’s features.
After that, I guess you’ll be as excited as I was this morning 🙂
If anything, this is a good shout out to other vendors: who’s next in enabling a web dashboarding API? 😉
Julien
Posted in Blogging, Google Analytics, Web 2.0, Web Analytics | 2 Comments »
September 22, 2007
[Click for French version]
With the recent arrival of Dave Rhee at OX2, our web analytics team now includes three full-fledged Omniture Certified Professionals, including Aurélie and yours truly. This is due in great part to the partnership that was just signed between Omniture and OX2 and announced by Neil Morgan during the Web Analytics Day on September 14th. Neil graciously acknowledged OX2’s expertise with Omniture since both Dave and myself had the unique opportunity to deploy Omniture’s web analytics tools for Fortune 500 companies and now this expertise is officially available to OX2 clients.
OX2 is now Omniture’s preferred partner for Belgium but our partnership extends of course to France, Germany, and beyond!
Adding Omniture to our skill portfolio was a logical step in our quest to best serve the interests of our clients and help them grow their online strategy by taking decisions based on hard, concrete data.
Thanks to the Omniture team for placing their trust in us and we are looking forward to a fruitful collaboration! 🙂

The Web Analytics Day was also a good occasion for OX2 to present Dave and myself as Analytics Country Managers for Germany and France respectively, with Aurélie leading our (increasingly) European activities from our Brussels offices. This reinforced OX2’s image as a leading pan-European consultancy in the field of Web Analytics as well as bringing more credit to our position as a vendor-independent agency.
As you can see from the map here, there is plenty of room for us to grow but we’re working on it 😉
Take note in your calendar that OX2 and Omniture will both be presenting at the Customer First event in Brussels between October 18th and 19th.
Thanks for reading and, as usual, constructive comments are welcome 🙂
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Version française (more…)
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August 31, 2007
Thanks to Michael Whittaker‘s team at Monitus, the Analytics KPI module for Google Homepage (aka iGoogle) can now be used multiple times in one given iGoogle tab!

Alan Boydell of Google Analytics France first pointed me to this nifty little tool (in French) but at first I got frustrated because I could not use more than one reportlet in my iGoogle page. Yes i was pushing my luck but hey, you can’t blame me for trying 😉
Anyhow, Michael was very quick to react to my comment and presto, three days later his team had put together a fix 😀
If you like Google Analytics and would like to have your KPIs right when you open your browser, this module is for you!
KPI customization appears to be in their plans so watch this space, we’ll cover it when it’s released.
Tip: if you still like to have your news feeds and other gadgets, create a new tab dedicated to your GA reportlets. By the way if anyone knows how to bookmark an iGoogle tab, please let me know 😉
Enjoy!
Links:
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August 20, 2007

Attention, cet article porte sur l'”ancien” code Google Analytics avec urchin.js!!
Il y a quelques temps déjà, Mehdi et moi avions discuté d’un petit plug-in pour exclure notre propre trafic de nos rapports Google Analytics.
Bien sûr vous me direz:
“Oui, mais ne t’en fais pas Julien, il suffit d’exclure son adresse IP! Regarde dans les options de ton profil!”
et vous aurez raison… pendant quelques minutes tout du moins 🙂
En effet, cette méthode d’exclusion d’adresse IP ou de plages d’adresses IP peut être un des remèdes à votre problème, sauf dans le cas où vous vous trouvez derrière un pare-feu ou si votre adresse IP n’est pas fixe.
Que faire dans ces deux cas précis? Voici un petit truc d’expert certifié Google Analytics Authorized Consultant 😉
(more…)
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August 6, 2007
A moins que vous ne fassiez la promotion de votre site Web exclusivement sur le Web, vous vous êtes sans doute déjà rendu compte que le suivi de vos visiteurs provenant de sources autres qu’Internet (off-line) est un vrai casse-tête.
Aurélie me parlait l’autre jour d’une discussion sur une émission de télévision dont la vidéo est disponible sur le site de l’émission. Les internautes peuvent ensuite discuter de l’émission sur le forum du site.
Une question intéressante à se poser était: quelle est la proportion des utilisateurs du forum qui visitent le site après avoir regardé l’émission à la télévision? par rapport aux purs internautes qui ne font que consommer du contenu en ligne : vidéo de l’émission et forum ? A l’époque du Web 2.0 et des interactions qui y sont développées, la notion de capture d’évènements et l’importance de l’identification de ses visiteurs deviennent vitales.
D’où une question plus globale : comment identifer chaque type de population, chaque segment utilisateur en fonction de leur provenance et de leur activité sur un site Web?
(more…)
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July 27, 2007

Après l’annonce de notre partenariat avec Web Analytics Demystified, nous sommes heureux de partager avec vous une étude d’Eric Peterson publiée le 24 juillet. Cette étude porte sur l’utilisation d’outils gratuits de web analytique, tels que Google Analytics ou le futur “projet Gatineau” de Microsoft. Malgré l’adoption grandissante de Google Analytics par des entreprises de toutes tailles – qu’elles fassent partie de l’index Fortune 500 comme Chevron, General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Dell ou Dupont, l’étude d’Eric montre que les entreprises qui adoptent et implémentent des outils gratuits de web analytique sont moins susceptibles de mettre en application des best practices et donc de tirer le meilleur parti de leur investissement web analytique.
Les points d’orgue de cette étude sont les suivants:
- Les entreprises qui adoptent un outil gratuit ont davantage tendance à traiter les web analytics de façon un peu cavalière. 35% des entreprises interrogées qui utilisent des outils gratuits s’en servent de façon ad hoc, contre 20% chez les utilisateurs d’outils payants.
- Les entreprises qui utilisent un outil gratuit manquent cruellement de ressources dédiées aux web analytics. 42% des entreprises interrogées qui utilisent des outils gratuits déclarent n’avoir aucune ressource dédiée, contre 18% chez les utilisateurs d’outils payants.
- Les personnes qui utilisent des outils gratuits ont en général moins d’expérience des web analytics: 64% des utilisateurs d’outils gratuits ont moins de deux ans d’expérience dans le domaine, contre 32% chez les utilisateurs de solutions payantes.
Comme pour la plupart de ses études, et dans le cadre d’un effort éducatif et d’évangélisation, Eric publie ce rapport sur le site de WebAnalytics Demystified, Inc., dont le “Conseil des Sages” comprend Aurélie Pols.
Le rapport est disponible sur: http://www.webanalyticsdemystified.com/research
Un facteur de poids pour des outils gratuits, et notamment avec ces produits récemment arrivés sur le marché, est bien entendu le manque d’expérience et de recul par rapport au reste de l’industrie.
Comme le souligne Eric dans son étude, avec l’arrivée sur le marché d’outils gratuits, on observe d’importantes différences dans la façon dont sont utilisés des produits gratuits ou payants. (more…)
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