Have you ever tried to use a new plug-in and found it did not work? You were probably missing a utility function. Utility functions are designed to work with SiteCatalyst plug-ins. There are 6 utility functions that are commonly used. They are apl, p_c, p_gh, split, replace, and join. These functions do things like join [...]

The Time Parting Plug-in is one of the more popular SiteCatalyst plug-ins available. A standard implementation of the Time Parting plug-in will consume 3 variables. One for Time of Day, one for the Day of Week, and one for Weekday/Weekend. How can we improve this to get more information, and more importantly use less variables? [...]

To me Web Analytics is the science of analyzing visitor behavior in order to improve the Web Site for the purpose of increasing conversion. Anytime I can use web analytics to help the visitor find what they are looking for, I feel I’m doing my job. But lets say your visitors are finding what they [...]

I receive a lot of questions from people working on their own SiteCatalyst implementations and I’m always happy to help. One that I got recently is “why is your s_code file a php file”? I figured there were not too many people out there doing it like this or even know about this, so I [...]

ClickMap. Pretty useful tool. It gives you a neat overlay that shows you what links are clicked on a page and the associated traffic. I wonder how we can make it better? Knock knock. Oh who is that at the door? Why its the Dynamic Object IDs Plugin. Please step right in. The Dynamic Object [...]

Here is a simple way to add Page Views and Visits to all of your eVar reports (see the update below). While Client Care has the ability to turn on a few things, flip some switches here and there to add visits to some reports, I like having full control over it as much as [...]

As many of you may have noticed, there is a new menu available in the SiteCatalyst Admin Console. It was released with the 9/16 maintenance release. It is currently in a closed beta and should go live before the next maintenance release. Have not seen it yet? Well if you have admin access here is [...]

Omniture’s SiteCatalyst can give you a tremendous amount of data. You can slice and dice tons of different metrics and the drop of a hat. Lets say one day the CMO comes to you and asks for one of those left-field ad-hoc reports you randomly get, something like “how much revenue was generated on August [...]