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12 mars 2010, par kent1Lorsque votre demande est validée, vous pouvez alors procéder à la création proprement dite du canal. Chaque canal est un site à part entière placé sous votre responsabilité. Les administrateurs de la plateforme n’y ont aucun accès.
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Web Analytics : The Quick Start Guide
25 janvier 2024, par ErinYou’ve spent ages carefully designing your website, crafting copy to encourage as many users as possible to purchase your product.
But they aren’t. And you don’t know why.
The good news is you don’t have to remain in the dark. Collecting and analysing web analytics lets you understand how your users behave on your site and why they aren’t converting.
But before you can do that, you need to know what those metrics and KPIs mean. That’s why this article is taking things back to basics. Below, we’ll show you which metrics to track, what they mean and how to choose the best web analytics platform.
What is web analytics ?
Web analytics is the process of collecting, analysing and reporting website data to understand how users behave on your website. Web analytics platforms like Matomo collect this data by adding a code line to every site page.
Why is it important to track web analytics ?
There are plenty of reasons you should start tracking web analytics, including the following :
Analyse user behaviour
Being able to analyse user behaviour is the most important reason to track website analytics. After all, you can’t improve your website’s conversion rate if you don’t know what users do on your site.
A web analytics platform can show you how users move around your site, the links they click on and the forms they fill in.
Improve site experience
Web analytics is a fantastic way to identify issues and find areas where your site could improve. You could look at your site’s exit pages, for example, and see why so many users leave your site when viewing one of these pages and what you can do to fix it.
It can also teach you about your user’s preferences so you can improve the user experience in the future. Maybe they always click a certain type of button or prefer one page’s design over another. Whatever the case, you can use the data to make your site more user-friendly and increase conversions.
Boost marketing efforts
Web analytics is one of the best ways to understand your marketing efforts and learn how to improve them.
A good platform can collect valuable data about your marketing campaigns, including :
- Where users came from
- What actions these users take on your site
- Which traffic sources create the most conversions
This information can help you decide which marketing campaigns send the best users to your site and generate the highest ROI.
Make informed decisions
Ultimately, web analytics simplifies decision-making for your website and marketing efforts by relying on concrete data instead of guesswork.
Rather than wonder why users aren’t adding products to their shopping cart or signing up for your newsletter, you can analyse how they behave and use that information to hypothesise how you can improve conversions. Web analytics will even give you the data to confirm whether you were right or wrong.
What are the key metrics you should track ?
Getting your head around web analytics means knowing the most important metrics to track. Below are seven key metrics and how to track them using Matomo.
Traffic
Traffic is the number of people visiting your website over a period of time. It is the lifeblood of your website since the more visits your site receives, the more revenue it stands to generate.
However, simply having a high volume of visitors does not guarantee substantial revenue. To maximise your success, focus on attracting your ideal customers and generating quality traffic from those who are most likely to engage with your offerings.
Ideally, you should be seeing an upward trend in traffic over time though. The longer your website has been published and the more quality and targeted content you create, the more traffic you should receive.
Matomo offers multiple ways to check your website’s traffic :
The visits log report in Matomo is perfect if you want a granular view of your visitors.
It shows you each user session and get a detailed picture of each user, including :
- Their geographic location
- The number of actions they took
- How they found your site
- The length of time they stayed
- Their device type
- What browser they are using
- The keyword they used to find your site
Traffic sources
Traffic sources show how users access your website. They can enter via a range of traffic sources, including search engines, email and direct visits, for instance.
Matomo has five default traffic source types :
- Search engine – visitors from search platforms (like Google, Bing, etc.)
- Direct traffic – individuals who directly type your website’s URL into their browser or have it bookmarked, bypassing search engines or external links
- Websites – visits from other external sites
- Campaigns – traffic resulting from specific marketing initiatives (like a newsletter or ad campaign, for instance)
- Social networks – visitors who access your website through various social media platforms (such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram. etc.)
But each of these can be broken into more granular sources. Take organic traffic from search engines, for example :
Matomo tracks visits from each search engine, showing you how many visits you had in total, how many actions those visitors took, and the average amount of time those visitors spent on your site.
You can even integrate Google, Bing and Yahoo search consoles to monitor keyword performance and enhance your search engine optimisation efforts.
Pageviews
Whenever a browser loads a page, your web analytics tool records a pageview. This term, pageview, represents the count of unique times a page on your website is loaded.
You can track pageviews in Matomo by opening the Pages tab in the Behaviour section of the main navigation.
You can quickly see your site’s most visited pages in this report in Matomo.
Be careful of deriving too much meaning from pageviews. Just because a page has lots of views, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s quality or valuable. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, the page might be confusing, so users have to keep revisiting it to understand the content. Second, it could be the default page most visitors land on when they enter your site, like the homepage.
While pageviews offer insights, it’s important to dig deeper into user behaviour and other metrics to truly gauge a page’s importance and impact.
Average time on page
Time on page is the amount of time users spend on the page on average. You can see average time on page in Matomo’s page analytics report.
A low time on page score isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Users will naturally spend less time on gateway pages and checkout pages. A short time spent on checkout pages, especially if users are successfully completing their transactions, indicates that the checkout process is easy and seamless.
Conversely, a longer time on blog posts is a positive indicator. It suggests that readers are genuinely engaged with the content.
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Returning visitors
Returning visitors measures the number of people who visit your site more than once. It can be expressed as a number or a percentage.
While some analytics tools only show returning visitors as a percentage, Matomo lets you learn more about each of them in the Visitor profile report.
This report offers a full summary of a user’s previous actions, including :
- How many times they’ve visited your site
- The pages they viewed on each visit
- Where they visited from
- The devices they used
- How quickly pages loaded
When people keep coming back to a website, it’s usually a positive sign and means they like the service, content or products. But, it depends on the type of website. If it’s the kind of site where people make one-off purchases, the focus might not be on getting visitors to return. For a site like this, a high number of returning visitors could indicate that the website is confusing or difficult to use.
It’s all about the context – different websites have different goals, and it’s important to keep this in mind when analysing your site.
Conversions
A conversion is when a user takes a desired action on your website. This could be :
- Making a purchase
- Subscribing to your newsletter
- Signing up for a webinar
You can track virtually any action as a conversion in Matomo by setting goals and analysing the goals report.
As you can see in the screenshot above, Matomo shows your conversions plotted over time. You can also see your conversion rate to get a complete picture and assign a value to each conversion to calculate how much revenue each conversion generates.
Bounce rate
A visitor bounces when they leave your website without taking an action or visiting another page.
Typically, you want bounce rate to be low because it means people are engaged with your site and more likely to convert. However, in some cases, a high bounce rate isn’t necessarily bad. It might mean that visitors found what they needed on the first page and didn’t feel the need to look further.
The impact of bounce rate depends on your website’s purpose and goals.
You can view your website’s bounce rate using Matomo’s page analytics report — the same report that shows pageviews.
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Web analytics best practices
You should follow several best practices to get the most from website analytics data.
Choose metrics that align with your goals
Only some metrics your analytics platform tracks will be relevant to your business. So don’t waste time analysing all of them.
Instead, focus on the ones that matter most to your business. A marketer for an e-commerce store, for example, might focus on conversion-related metrics like conversion rate and total number of transactions. They might also want to look at campaign-related metrics, like traffic sources and bounce rates, so they can optimise paid ad campaigns accordingly.
A marketer looking to improve their site’s SEO, on the other hand, will want to track SEO web analytics like bounce rate and broken links.
Add context to your data
Don’t take your data at face value. There could be dozens of factors that impact how visitors access and use your site — many of which are outside your control.
For example, you may think an update to your site has sent your conversions crashing when, in reality, a Google algorithm update has negatively impacted your search traffic.
Adding annotations within Matomo can provide invaluable context to your data. These annotations can be used to highlight specific events, changes or external factors that might influence your website metrics.
By documenting significant occurrences, such as website updates, marketing campaigns or algorithm changes, you create a timeline that helps explain fluctuations in your data.
Go further with advanced web analytics features
It’s clear that a web analytics platform is a necessary tool to understand your website’s performance.
However, if you want greater confidence in decision-making, quicker insights and better use of budget and resources, you need an advanced solution with behavioural analytics features like heatmaps, A/B testing and session recordings.
Most web analytics solutions don’t offer these advanced features, but Matomo does, so we’ll be showcasing Matomo’s behavioural analytics features.
Now, if you don’t have a Matomo account, you can try it free for 21-days to see if it’s the right tool for you.
A heatmap, like the example above, makes it easy to discover where your users pay attention, which part of your site they have problems with, and how they convert. It adds a layer of qualitative data to the facts offered by your web analytics tool.
Similarly, session recordings will offer you real-time playbacks of user interactions, helping you understand their navigation patterns, identify pain points and gain insights into the user experience.
Then you can run experiments bu using A/B testing to compare different versions of your website or specific elements, allowing you to make informed decisions based on actual user preferences and behaviour. For instance, you can compare different headlines, images, page layouts or call-to-action buttons to see which resonates better with your audience.
Together, these advanced features will give you the confidence to optimise your website, improve user satisfaction and make data-driven decisions that positively impact your business.
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How to choose a web analytics tool
A web analytics tool is the best way to track the above metrics. Choose the best one for your company by following the steps below.
Look for the right features
Most popular web analytics platforms, like Google Analytics, will offer the same core features like tracking website traffic, monitoring conversions and generating reports.
But it’s the added features that set great tools apart. Do you need specific tools to measure the performance of your e-commerce store, for example ? What about paid ad performance, A/B testing or form analytics ?
By understanding exactly what you need from an analytics platform, you can make an informed choice.
Think about data accuracy
Data accuracy is one of the biggest issues with analytics tools. Many users block cookies or opt out of tracking, making it difficult to get a clear picture of user behaviour — and meaning that you have to think about how your user data will be collected with your chosen platform.
Google Analytics, for instance, uses data sampling to make assumptions about traffic levels rather than relying on accurate data. This can lead to inaccurate reports and false conclusions.
It’s why Matomo doesn’t use data sampling and provides 100% accurate data.
Understand how you’ll deal with data privacy
Data privacy is another big concern for analytics users. Several major analytics platforms aren’t compatible with regional data privacy laws like GDPR, which can impact your ability to collect data in these regions.
It’s why many companies trust privacy-focused analytics tools that abide by regulations without impacting your ability to collect data. Matomo is a market leader in this respect and is one of the few web analytics tools that the Centre for Data Privacy Protection in France has said is exempt from tracking consent requirements.
Many government agencies across Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, including organisations like the United Nations and European Commission, rely on Matomo for web analytics.
Conclusion
Web analytics is a powerful tool that helps you better understand your users, improve your site’s performance and boost your marketing efforts.
If you want a platform that offers advanced features, 100% accurate data and protects your users’ privacy, then look no further than Matomo.
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Conversion Rate Optimisation Statistics for 2024 and Beyond
21 novembre 2023, par Erin — Analytics TipsDriving traffic to your website is only half the battle. The real challenge — once you’ve used a web analytics solution to understand how users behave — is turning more of those visitors into customers.
That doesn’t happen by accident. You need to employ conversion rate optimisation strategies and tools to see even a small lift in conversion rates. The good news is that it doesn’t take much to see massive results. Raising your conversion rate from 1% to 3% can triple your revenue.
In even better news, you don’t have to guess at the best ways to improve your conversion rate. We’ve done the hard work and collected the most recent and relevant conversion rate optimisation statistics to help you.
General conversion rate optimisation statistics
It appears the popularity of conversion rate optimisation is soaring. According to data collected by Google Trends, there were more people searching for the term “conversion rate optimization” in September 2023 than ever before.
As you can see from the chart below, the term’s popularity is on a clear upward trajectory, meaning even more people could be searching for it in the near future. (Source)
Do you want to know what the average landing page conversion rate is ? According to research by WordStream, the average website conversion rate across all industries is 2.35%.
That doesn’t paint the whole picture, however. Better-performing websites have significantly higher conversion rates. The top 25% of websites across all industries convert at a rate of 5.31% or higher. (Source)
Let’s break things down by industry now. The Unbounce Conversion Benchmark Report offers a detailed analysis of how landing pages convert across various industries.
First, we have the Finance and Insurance industry, which boasts a conversion rate of 15.6%.
On the other end, agencies appears to be one of the worst-performing. Agencies’ landing pages convert at a rate of 8.8%. (Source)
What about the size of the conversion rate optimisation industry ? Given the growth in popularity of the term in Google, surely the industry is experiencing growth, right ?
You’d be correct in that assumption. The conversion rate optimisation software market was valued at $771.2 million in 2018 and is projected to reach $1.932 billion by 2026 — a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6%.
Statistics on the importance of conversion rate optimisation
If you’re reading this article, you probably think conversion rate optimisation is pretty important. But do you know its importance and where it ranks in your competitors’ priorities ? Read on to find out.
Bounce rate — the number of people who leave your website without visiting another page or taking action — is the scourge of conversion rate optimisation efforts. Every time someone bounces from your site, you lose the chance to convert them.
The questions, then, are : how often do people bounce on average and how does your bounce rate compare ?
Siege Media analysed over 1.3 billion sessions from a range of traffic sources, including 700 million bounces, to calculate an average bounce rate of 50.9%. (Source)
Bounce rates vary massively from website to website and industry to industry, however. Siege Media’s study unveils an array of average bounce rates across industries :
- Travel – 82.58%
- B2B – 65.17%
- Lifestyle – 64.26%
- Business and Finance – 63.51%
- Healthcare – 59.50%
- eCommerce – 54.54%
- Insurance – 45.96%
- Real Estate – 40.78%
It won’t come as much of a surprise to learn that marketers are determined to reduce bounce rates and improve lead conversion. Today’s marketers are highly performance-based. When asked about their priorities for the coming year, 79% of marketers said their priority was generating quality qualified leads — the most popular answer in the survey. (Source)
Just because it is a priority for marketers doesn’t mean that everyone has their stuff together. If you have a conversion rate optimisation process in place, you’re in the minority. According to research by HubSpot, less than one in five marketers (17%) use landing page A/B tests to improve their conversion rates. (Source)
When it comes to personalisation strategies – a common and effective tool to increase conversion rates — the picture isn’t any rosier. Research by Salesforce found just over one-quarter of markets are confident their organisation has a successful strategy for personalisation. (Source)
Conversion rate optimisation tactics statistics
There are hundreds of ways to improve your website’s conversion rates. From changing the color of buttons to the structure of your landing page to your entire conversion funnel, in this section, we’ll look at the most important statistics you need to know when choosing tactics and building your own CRO experiments.
If you are looking for the best method to convert visitors, then email lead generation forms are the way to go, according to HubSpot. This inoffensive and low-barrier data collection method boasts a 15% conversion rate, according to the marketing automation company’s research. (Source)
Where possible, make your call-to-actions personalised. Marketing personalisation, whether through behavioral segmentation or another strategy, is an incredibly powerful way of showing users that you care about their specific needs. It’s no great surprise, then, that HubSpot found personalised calls-to-actions perform a whopping 202% better than basic CTAs. (Source)
If you want to boost conversion rates, then it’s just as important to focus on quantity as well as quality. Yes, a great-looking, well-written landing page will go a long way to improving your conversion rate, but having a dozen of these pages will do even more.
Research by HubSpot found companies see a 55% increase in leads when they increase the number of landing pages from 10 to 15. What’s more, companies with over 40 landing pages increase conversion by more than 500%. (Source)
User-generated content (UGC) should also be high on your priority list to boost conversion rates. Several statistics show how powerful, impactful and persuasive social proof like user reviews can be.
Research shows that visitors who scroll to the point where they encounter user-generated content increase the likelihood they convert by a staggering 102.4%. (Source)
Other trust signs can be just as impactful. Research by Trustpilot found that the following four trust signals make consumers more likely to make a purchase when shown on a product page :
- Positive star rating and reviews (85% more likely to make a purchase)
- Positive star rating (78%)
- Positive customer testimonials (82%)
- Approved or authorised seller badge (76%)
(Source)
Showing ratings and reviews has also increased conversion rates by 38% on home appliances and electronics stores. (Source)
And no wonder, given that consumers are more likely to buy from brands they trust than brands they love, according to the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report. (Source)
A lack of trust is also one of the top four reasons consumers abandon their shopping cart at checkout. (Source)
Traffic source conversion rate statistics
What type of traffic works the best when it comes to conversions, or how often you should be signing up users to your mailing list ? Let’s look at the stats to find out.
Email opt-ins are one of the most popular methods for collecting customer information — and an area where digital marketers spend a lot of time and effort when it comes to conversion rate optimisation. So, what is the average conversion rate of an email opt-in box ?
According to research by Sumo — based on 3.2 billion users who have seen their opt-in boxes — the average email opt-in rate is 1.95%. (Source)
Search advertising is an effective way of driving website traffic, but how often do those users click on these ads ?
WordStream’s research puts the average conversion of search advertising for all industries at 6.11%. (Source)
The arts and entertainment industry enjoys the highest clickthrough rates (11.78%), followed by sports and recreation (10.53%) and travel (10.03%). Legal services and the home improvement industry have the lowest clickthrough rates at 4.76% and 4.8%, respectively.
(Source) If you’re spending money on Google ads, then you’d better hope a significant amount of users convert after clicking them.
Unfortunately, conversion rates from Google ads decreased year-on-year for most industries in 2023, according to research by WordStream — in some cases, those decreases were significant. The only two industries that didn’t see a decrease in conversion rates were beauty and personal care and education and instruction. (Source)
The average conversion rate for search ads across all industries is 7.04%. The animal and pet niche has the highest conversion rate (13.41%), while apparel, fashion and jewelry have the lowest conversion rate (1.57%). (Source)
What about other forms of traffic ? Well, there’s good reason to try running interstitial ads on smartphone apps if you aren’t already. Ads on the iOS app see a 14.3 percent conversion rate on average. (Source)
E-commerce conversion rate optimisation statistics (400 words)
Conversion rate optimisation can be the difference between a store that sets new annual sales records and one struggling to get by.
The good news is that the conversion rate among US shoppers was the highest it’s ever been in 2021, with users converting at 2.6%. (Source)
If you have a Shopify store, then you may find conversion rates a little lower. A survey by Littledata found the average conversion rate for Shopify was 1.4% in September 2022. (Source)
What about specific e-commerce categories ? According to data provided by Dynamic Yield, the consumer goods category converted at the highest rate in September 2023 (4.22%), a spike of 0.34% from August.
Generally, the food and beverage niche boasts the highest conversion rate (4.87%), and the home and furniture niche has the lowest conversion rate (1.44%). (Source)
If you’re serious about driving sales, don’t focus on mobile devices at the expense of consumers who shop on desktop devices. The conversion rate among US shoppers tends to be higher for desktop users than for mobile users.
In the second quarter of 2022, for instance, desktop shoppers converted at a rate of 3% on average compared to smartphone users who converted at an average rate of 2%. (Source)
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Conversion rate optimisation can help you grow your subscriber list, build your customer base and increase your revenue. Now, it’s time to put what you’ve learned into practice.
Use the advice above to guide your experiments and track everything with Matomo. Achieve unparalleled data accuracy while harnessing an all-in-one solution packed with essential conversion optimisation features, including Heatmaps, Session Recordings and A/B Testing. Matomo makes it easier than ever to analyse conversion-focused experiments.
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Custom Segmentation Guide : How it Works & Segments to Test
13 novembre 2023, par Erin — Analytics Tips, UncategorizedStruggling to get the insights you’re looking for with premade reports and audience segments in your analytics ?
Custom segmentation can help you better understand your customers, app users or website visitors, but only if you know what you’re doing.
You can derive false insights with the wrong segments, leading your marketing campaigns or product development in the wrong direction.
In this article, we’ll break down what custom segmentation is, useful custom segments to consider, how new privacy laws affect segmentation options and how to create these segments in an analytics platform.
What is custom segmentation ?
Custom segmentation is when you divide your audience (customers, users, website visitors) into bespoke segments of your own design, not premade segments designed by the analytics or marketing platform provider.
To do this, you single out “custom segment input” — data points you will use to pinpoint certain users. For example, it could be everyone who has visited a certain page on your site.
Segmentation isn’t just useful for targeting marketing campaigns and also for analysing your customer data. Creating segments is a great way to dive deeper into your data beyond surface-level insights.
You can explore how various factors impact engagement, conversion rates, and customer lifetime value. These insights can help guide your higher-level strategy, not just campaigns.
How custom segments can help your business
As the global business world clamours to become more “data-driven,” even smaller companies collect all sorts of data on visitors, users, and customers.
However, inexperienced organisations often become “data hoarders” without meaningful insights. They have in-house servers full of data or gigabytes stored by Google Analytics and other third-party providers.
One way to leverage this data is with standard customer segmentation models. This can help you get insights into your most valuable customer groups and other standard segments.
Custom segments, in turn, can help you dive deeper. They help you unlock insights into the “why” of certain behaviours. They can help you segment customers and your audience to figure out :
- Why and how someone became a loyal customer
- How high-order-value customers interact with your site before purchases
- Which behaviours indicate audience members are likely to convert
- Which traffic sources drive the most valuable customers
This specific insight’s power led Gartner to predict that 70% of companies will shift focus from “big data” to “small and wide” by 2025. The lateral detail is what helps inform your marketing strategy.
You don’t need the same volume of data if you’re analysing and segmenting it effectively.
Custom segment inputs : 6 data points you can use to create valuable custom segments
To help you get started, here are six useful data points you can use as a basis to create segments — AKA customer segment inputs :
Visits to certain pages
A basic data point that’s great for custom segments is visits to certain pages. Create segments for popular middle-of-funnel pages and compare their engagement and conversion rates.
For example, if a user visits a case study page, you can compare their likelihood to convert vs. other visitors.
This is a type of behavioural segmentation, but it is the easiest custom segment to set up in terms of analysis and marketing efforts.
Visitors who perform certain actions
The other important type of behavioural segment is visitors or users who take certain actions. Think of things like downloading a file, clicking a link, playing a video or scrolling a certain amount.
For instance, you can create a segment of all visitors who have downloaded a white paper. This can help you explore, for example, what drives someone to download a white paper. You can look at the typical user journey and make it easier for them to access the white paper — especially if your sales reps indicate many inbound leads mention it as a key driver of their interest.
User devices
Device-based segmentation lets you compare engagement and conversion rates on mobile, desktop and tablets. You can also get insights into their usage patterns and potential issues with certain mobile elements.
This is one aspect of technographic segmentation, where you segment based on users’ hardware or software. You can also create segments based on browser software or even specific versions.
Loyal or high-value customers
The best way to get more loyal or high-value customers is to explore their journey in more detail. These types of segments can help you better understand your ideal customers and how they act on your site.
You can then use this insight to alter your campaigns or how you communicate with your target audience.
For example, you might notice that high-value customers tend to come from a certain source. You can then focus your marketing efforts on this source to reach more of your ideal customers.
Visitor or customer source
You need to track the results if you’re investing in marketing (like an influencer campaign or a sponsored post) outside platforms with their own analytics.
Before you can create a reliable segment, you need to make sure that you use campaign tracking parameters to reliably track the source. You can use our free campaign tracking URL builder for that.
Demographic segments — location (country, state) and more
Web analytics tools, such as Matomo, use visitors’ IP addresses to pinpoint their location more accurately by cross-referencing with a database of known and estimated IP locations. In addition, these tools can detect a visitor’s location through the language settings in their browser.
This can help create segments based on location or language. By exploring these trends, you can identify patterns in behaviour, tailor your content to specific audiences, and adapt your overall strategy to better meet the preferences and needs of your diverse visitor base.
How new privacy laws affect segmentation options
Over the past few years, new legislation regarding privacy and customer data has been passed globally. The most notable privacy laws are the GDPR in the EU, the CCPA in California and the VCDPA in Virginia.
For most companies, it can save a lot of work and future headaches to choose a GDPR-compliant web analytics solution not only streamlines operations, saving considerable effort and preventing future headaches, but also ensures peace of mind by guaranteeing the collection of compliant and accurate data. This approach allows companies to maintain compliance with privacy regulations while remaining firmly committed to a data-driven strategy.
Create your very own custom segments in Matomo (while ensuring compliance and data accuracy)
Crafting precise marketing messages and optimising ROI is crucial, but it becomes challenging without the right tools, especially when it comes to maintaining accurate data.
That’s where Matomo comes in. Our privacy-friendly web analytics platform is GDPR-compliant and ensures accurate data, empowering you to effortlessly create and analyse precise custom segments.
If you want to improve your marketing campaigns while remaining GDPR-compliant, start your 21-day free trial of Matomo. No credit card required.