One of the biggest things I always hear from people considering moving to Adobe SiteCatalyst is the fear of a difficult implementation. It feels to me that most people think they need to implement everything at once, and that is not so. You can just take baby steps and implement small sections at a time. [...]

Today Omniture released the 14.7 version of their analytics platform SiteCatalyst. While most of the excitement will be over the new Dashboard functionality, here are a 4 other new items that I really like. Trend by day of week The ability to trend by day of week is a really nice addition. When looking at [...]

The Omniture PHP Measurement Library lets you use PHP to record your visitor’s activity on your Web site. At first glance it can look a little intimidating, but it really is not that complicated. Once you have it implemented, all that you will see in the source code of your pages is the image request [...]

Do you have a site that uses a hash symbol in the URL with query parameters and you want a way to track them in SiteCatalyst? Well you have come to the right place. What am I talking about? Lets say you have a URL that looks like this: http://webanalyticsland.com/#cid=Hash_Param_Test and you want to capture [...]

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 [...]

Recently there was a great article on the Omniture Blog all about Capturing Time Spent on . . . well, just about anything. It’s a great post and definitely worth checking out. After reading it I was wondering if there was another way to do it? Of course there is! I present the Time To [...]

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 [...]

In our quest to make our SiteCatalyst implementation more powerful and lighten the load on the developers and programmers (who for some reason always have more important things to do then add more Omniture code to the site), there are a couple of plug-ins I like to use to help to set the scOpen event. [...]

Tracking your visitor’s Flash version is nothing new. I wrote about it a while ago in the Plugin To Detect Flash in SiteCatalyst post. What I have here is a little more powerful. This is the Rich Internet Application tracking plug-in. RIA development is becoming more and more popular. Do your Visitors have Flash? What [...]