Web Metrics, Analytics & Measuring progress
Analytics are absolutely critical to the success of your website and your digital business. Analytics allows you to establish key performance indicators and monitor marketing and campaign performance for continued success and ongoing improvement. If you're not measuring website and campaign performance, you're losing money.
Analytics measures website performance, user behavior & digital marketing results
The most crucial factor in determining website performance and digital marketing success is Analytics monitoring. Analytics identifies how well your website is performing, which pages visitors are most engaged with, website visitor flow, traffic driven to your site through marketing channels and campaigns, and much more.
Google Analytics Tracking Has Changed
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) measures users' behavior, website traffic generation by source, the effectiveness for your digital channels and the results from marketing programs. Implementing GA4, recording data, analyzing, making adjustments and repeating this process are the keys to incrementally improving your marketing funnel effectiveness.
Google Tag Manager is Ideal for Implementation
You can install GA4 tracking on your website using the Analytics-provided GTAG (your measurement ID) or through Google Tag Manager.
We install Google Analytics (GA4) on your website through Google Tag Manager (GTM). GTM allows us to integrate tracking code (pixels) from social media platforms, 3rd party payment gateways, and marketing automation platforms. We also generate custom scripts to track on-page events that are difficult to measure in GA4.
The advantages of using GTM are that all tracking is managed in one place (your GTM container), all tracking configurations can be tested on the live site without generating any test data in your GA4 accounts, and new tracking or updates are pushed live across your entire site with a single click. Fast, easy, and very cool!
GOOGLE ANALYTICS 4 - GTAG INSTALLATION
• Installs only Google Analytics 4 tracking
• Limited Event & Custom Event Tracking
• Single Method for Tracking Events
• Requires Manual GTAG Code Updates
• Sub-Domain Tracking on 3rd Party Sites
Negatives:
• Limited Customization of Event Tracking
• Difficult to Track Page-Level Tag Changes
• Framework of Tag Ages Out Without Warning
GOOGLE TAG MANAGER - OMNI TRACKING
• GTM Container Installs ALL Platform Tracking Codes
• Provides Custom Tracking for Platforms & Events
• Multiple Event Tracking Methods & Parameters
• Google Updates Framework, No Code Updates
• Sub-Domain & iframe Tracking on 3rd Party Sites
Negatives:
• GTM Container is Not Allowed by Some 3rd Party Developers.
GTM Solves Difficult Tracking Issues
One of the most difficult challenges for digital marketers is tracking activity when their website contains an iframe which is a container that loads a 3rd party website within your website.
Iframes are very common on websites using a 3rd party reservation system or payment gateway. Google Analytics tracks your website URL but cannot see the 3rd party website. The end result is that the 3rd party website is credited with all leads and/or revenue, not your digital marketing channels.
If you are working with a 3rd party who will host a subdomain of your site (e.g. reservations.yourcompany.com) then GA4 will likely track results. If this is not the case, you will have a large hole in your marketing data.
GTM makes it possible, in many instances, to track your website visitors to a 3rd party website and back to your website, allowing for accurate attribution of activity and results to your digital channels. GA4 alone cannot do this.
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