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Attribution Tracking (What It Is and How It Works)
23 février 2024, par ErinFacebook, TikTok, Google, email, display ads — which one is best to grow your business ? There’s one proven way to figure it out : attribution tracking.
Marketing attribution allows you to see which channels are producing the best results for your marketing campaigns.
In this guide, we’ll show you what attribution tracking is, why it’s important and how you can leverage it to accelerate your marketing success.
What is attribution tracking ?
By 2026, the global digital marketing industry is projected to reach $786.2 billion.
With nearly three-quarters of a trillion U.S. dollars being poured into digital marketing every year, there’s no doubt it dominates traditional marketing.
The question is, though, how do you know which digital channels to use ?
By measuring your marketing efforts with attribution tracking.
So, what is attribution tracking ?
Attribution tracking is where you use software to keep track of different channels and campaign efforts to determine which channel you should attribute conversion to.
In other words, you can (and should) use attribution tracking to analyse which channels are pushing the needle and which ones aren’t.
By tracking your marketing efforts, you’ll be able to accurately measure the scale of impact each of your channels, campaigns and touchpoints have on a customer’s purchasing decision.
If you don’t track your attribution, you’ll end up blindly pouring time, money, and effort into activities that may or may not be helpful.
Attribution tracking simply gives you insight into what you’re doing right as a marketer — and what you’re doing wrong.
By understanding which efforts and channels are driving conversions and revenue, you’ll be able to properly allocate resources toward winning channels to double down on growth.
Matomo lets you track attribution across various channels. Whether you’re looking to track your conversions through organic, referral websites, campaigns, direct traffic, or social media, you can see all your conversions in one place.
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Why attribution tracking is important
Attribution tracking is crucial to succeed with your marketing since it shows you your most valuable channels.
It takes the guesswork out of your efforts.
You don’t need to scratch your head wondering what made your campaigns a success (or a failure).
While most tools show you last click attribution by default, using attribution tracking, or marketing attribution, you can track revenue and conversions for each touchpoint.
For example, a Facebook ad might have no led to a conversion immediately. But, maybe the visitor returned to your website two weeks later through your email campaign. Attribution tracking will give credit over longer periods of time to see the bigger picture of how your marketing channels are impacting your overall performance.
Here are five reasons you need to be using attribution tracking in your business today :
1. Measure channel performance
The most obvious way attribution tracking helps is to show you how well each channel performs.
When you’re using a variety of marketing channels to reach your audience, you have to know what’s actually doing well (and what’s not).
This means having clarity on the performance of your :
- Emails
- Google Ads
- Facebook Ads
- Social media marketing
- Search engine optimisation (SEO)
- And more
Attribution tracking allows you to measure each channel’s ROI and identify how much each channel impacted your campaigns.
It gives you a more accurate picture of the performance of each channel and each campaign.
With it, you can easily break down your channels by how much they drove sales, conversions, signups, or other actions.
With this information, you can then understand where to further allocate your resources to fuel growth.
2. See campaign performance over longer periods of time
When you start tracking your channel performance with attribution tracking, you’ll gain new insights into how well your channels and campaigns are performing.
The best part — you don’t just get to see recent performance.
You get to track your campaign results over weeks or months.
For example, if someone found you through Google by searching a question that your blog had an answer to, but they didn’t convert, your traditional tracking strategy would discount SEO.
But, if that same person clicked a TikTok ad you placed three weeks later, came back, and converted — SEO would receive some attribution on the conversion.
Using an attribution tracking tool like Matomo can help paint a holistic view of how your marketing is really doing from channel to channel over the long run.
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3. Increase revenue
Attribution tracking has one incredible benefit for marketers : optimised marketing spend.
When you begin looking at how well your campaigns and your channels are performing, you’ll start to see what’s working.
Attribution tracking gives you clarity into the performance of campaigns since it’s not just looking at the first time someone clicks through to your site. It’s looking at every touchpoint a customer made along the way to a conversion.
By understanding what channels are most effective, you can pour more resources like time, money and labour into those effective channels.
By doubling down on the winning channels, you’ll be able to grow like never before.
Rather than trying to “diversify” your marketing efforts, lean into what’s working.
This is one of the key strategies of an effective marketer to maximise your campaign returns and experience long-term success in terms of revenue.
4. Improve profit margins
The final benefit to attribution tracking is simple : you’ll earn more profit.
Think about it this way : let’s say you’re putting 50% of your marketing spend into Facebook ads and 50% of your spend into email marketing.
You do this for one year, allocating $500,000 to Facebook and $500,000 to email.
Then, you start tracking attribution.
You find that your Facebook ads are generating $900,000 in revenue.
That’s a 1,800% return on your investment.
Not bad, right ?
Well, after tracking your attribution, you see what your email revenue is.
In the past year, you generated $1.7 million in email revenue.
That’s a 3,400% return on your investment (close to the average return of email marketing across all industries).
In this scenario, you can see that you’re getting nearly twice as much of a return on your marketing spend with email.
So, the following year, you decide to go for a 75/25 split.
Instead of putting $500,000 into both email and Facebook ads and email, you put $750,000 into email and $250,000 into Facebook ads.
You’re still diversifying, but you’re doubling down on what’s working best.
The result is that you’ll be able to get more revenue by investing the same amount of money, leaving you with higher profit margins.
Different types of marketing attribution tracking
There are several types of attribution tracking models in marketing.
Depending on your goals, your business and your preferred method, there are a variety of types of attribution tracking you can use.
Here are the six main types of attribution tracking :
1. Last interaction
Last interaction attribution model is also called “last touch.”
It’s one of the most common types of attribution. The way it works is to give 100% of the credit to the final channel a customer interacted with before they converted into a customer.
This could be through a paid ad, direct traffic, or organic search.
One potential drawback of last interaction is that it doesn’t factor in other channels that may have assisted in the conversion. However, this model can work really well depending on the business.
2. First interaction
This is the opposite of the previous model.
First interaction, or “first touch,” is all about the first interaction a customer has with your brand.
It gives 100% of the credit to the channel (i.e. a link clicked from a social media post). And it doesn’t report or attribute anything else to another channel that someone may have interacted with in your marketing mix.
For example, it won’t attribute the conversion or revenue if the visitor then clicked on an Instagram ad and converted. All credit would be given to the first touch which in this case would be the social media post.
The first interaction is a good model to use at the top of your funnel to help establish which channels are bringing leads in from outside your audience.
3. Last non-direct
Another model is called the last non-direct attribution model.
This model seeks to exclude direct traffic and assigns 100% credit for a conversion to the final channel a customer interacted with before becoming a customer, excluding clicks from direct traffic.
For instance, if someone first comes to your website from an emai campaignl, and then, a week later, directly visits and buys a product, the email campaign gets all the credit for the sale.
This attribution model tells a bit more about the whole sales process, shedding some more light on what other channels may have influenced the purchase decision.
4. Linear
Another common attribution model is linear.
This model distributes completely equal credit across every single touchpoint (that’s tracked).
Imagine someone comes to your website in different ways : first, they find it through a Google search, then they click a link in an email from your campaign the next day, followed by visiting from a Facebook post a few days later, and finally, a week later, they come from a TikTok ad.
Here’s how the attribution is divided among these sources :
- 25% Organic
- 25% Email
- 25% Facebook
- 25% TikTok ad
This attirubtion model provides a balanced perspective on the contribution of various sources to a user’s journey on your website.
5. Position-based
Position-based attribution is when you give 40% credit to both the first and last touchpoints and 20% credit is spread between the touchpoints in between.
This model is preferred if you want to identify the initial touchpoint that kickstarted a conversion journey and the final touchpoint that sealed the deal.
The downside is that you don’t gain much insight into the middle of the customer journey, which can make it hard to make effective decisions.
For example, someone may have been interacting with your email newsletter for seven weeks, which allowed them to be nurtured and build a relationship with you.
But that relationship and trust-building effort will be overlooked by the blog post that brought them in and the social media ad that eventually converted them.
6. Time decay
The final attribution model is called time decay attribution.
This is all about giving credit based on the timing of the interactions someone had with your brand.
For example, the touchpoints that just preceded the sale get the highest score, while the first touchpoints get the lowest score.
For example, let’s use that scenario from above with the linear model :
- 25% SEO
- 25% Email
- 25% Facebook ad
- 25% Organic TikTok
But, instead of splitting credit by 25% to each channel, you weigh the ones closer to the sale with more credit.
Instead, time decay may look at these same channels like this :
- 5% SEO (6 weeks ago)
- 20% Email (3 weeks ago)
- 30% Facebook ad (1 week ago)
- 45% Organic TikTok (2 days ago)
One downside is that it underestimates brand awareness campaigns. And, if you have longer sales cycles, it also isn’t the most accurate, as mid-stage nurturing and relationship building are underlooked.
Leverage Matomo : A marketing attribution tool
Attribution tracking is a crucial part of leading an effective marketing strategy.
But it’s impossible to do this without the right tools.
A marketing attribution tool can give you insights into your best-performing channels automatically.
One of the best marketing attribution tools available is Matomo, a web analytics tool that helps you understand what’s going on with your website and different channels in one easy-to-use dashboard.
With Matomo, you get marketing attribution as a plug-in or within Matomo On-Premise or for free in Matomo Cloud.
The best part is it’s all done with crystal-clear data. Matomo gives you 100% accurate data since it doesn’t use data sampling on any plans like Google Analytics.
To start tracking attribution today, try Matomo’s 21-day free trial. No credit card required.
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9 Form Optimisation Tips to Convert More Visitors
15 février 2024, par ErinForms might seem boring — that is, until you realise how powerful they are.
No forms mean no leads.
No leads mean no sales.
No sales means you’ll run out of business.
So, what do you do ?
Optimise forms to land more leads.
They’re a critical part of the sales funnel.
Forms have many different purposes and can be used to :
- Contact a company
- Sign up for a newsletter
- Request a demo
- Start a free trial
- And more
If you want to get more leads (and ultimately more sales), then you need to optimise your forms.
This guide will show you exactly how to do that (so you can start getting more conversions today).
What is form optimisation ?
Before we dive into form optimisation, let’s back up a bit.
Form conversion is our primary focus.
Your form conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who submit a form divided by the total number of visitors who started the form times one hundred.
For example, if 5,000 people started filling out your form this month and 350 submitted the form, the conversion rate would be :
350 / 5,000 x 100 = 7%
So, what’s form optimisation ?
It’s simply improving your forms to increase conversion rates.
For most people, form conversion is all about increasing leads.
Before you begin optimising your forms, it’s important you understand what’s good (and what’s not good) when it comes to form conversions.
The average form conversion rate across all industries is 2.9%.
This means you should expect about 3 out of every 100 visitors who start your form to submit it.
If your form conversion is lower — or hovering around this number — then it’s important to start optimising now.
With Matomo, you can track your form conversions with Matomo Form Analytics. Gain powerful insights into how your visitors interact with your forms with our intuitive dashboard.
Why it’s important to optimise your forms
Most people hear the word “forms” and think it’s boring.
But forms are the doorway to leads.
If you want to generate more sales, then you need to generate great forms.
Here are five reasons you need to optimise your forms today :
1. Improve conversions
Form optimisation is really just conversion optimisation.
But, instead of optimising and improving your site to directly improve sales conversions, you’re increasing lead conversions.
Every smart website owner uses forms to draw people in further.
The reality is that most of your website visitors will never return to your site.
This means you need to do everything you can to grab their contact information so you can continue marketing to them day in and day out.
Otherwise, you’ll lose them forever.
When you know how to optimise your forms, you’ll be able to get a higher percentage of form viewers to fill it out.
Higher conversions mean you get more leads, more customers, and ultimately more revenue.
2. Capture more leads
When you can increase your form conversion rate from 1% to 2%, it may seem insignificant.
What’s a measly percentage point in conversions ?
It’s a lot.
When you’re dealing with traffic in the tens or hundreds of thousands each month, an increase in conversion rate by a whole percentile is massive.
Let’s say you take your conversion rate from 2% to 3% on your form, and you have 70,000 visitors view the form each month.
Well, if 1,400 people used to sign up to your email list each month at a 2% conversion rate, then at a 3% conversion rate, you’d get 2,100 new email signups every month.
That’s a major difference.
When you can improve your signup forms, you improve your lead generation (which is conversion rate optimisation). And the more leads you have, the more sales you’ll make in the long run.
3. Get the most out of your traffic
If your forms don’t perform well, then you’re wasting your time (and your traffic).
By analysing your form data, you can quickly see what’s working and what’s not so you can optimise and improve the user experience (and your forms).
For most people, this means getting more form viewers to fill out the form with their email and name.
If 50,000 people visit your site each month, but only 1% of them fill out your form, you’re only getting 500 email signups per month.
Rather than paying money to generate more traffic, why not just work on improving your website by implementing a better form ?
If you can increase your form conversion rate to 2%, you will immediately go from 500 new subscribers per month to 1,000 per month.
4. Spend less on acquisition
If you’re able to get more form signups without having to generate more traffic, you just solved a pricey problem : acquisition costs.
If you can now get 1,000 of your 50,000 visitors to sign up to your email list through a better form, then you doubled your signups.
But that’s not all. You just cut your acquisition costs in half.
If you spend $2,000 per month on acquisition but you’re able to get twice as many leads, then your acquisition costs are at 50% of what they used to be.
This means you can pay the same amount but get twice as many leads.
Or, you can pour even more money into acquisition since it’s now twice as effective so you can fuel growth even more.
5. Grow revenue
Forms generate revenue. It may not be direct (although, in some cases, it is).
But, forms will lead to sales.
By placing optimised forms throughout your website at the right places, you will be able to capture a percentage of your visitors as leads, which means you’ll eventually make more sales.
13 tips to optimise your forms for more conversions
Now that you know what forms can do and why they’re important to grow your business, it’s time to dive into the best practices.
Follow these 13 tips to ensure you’re getting the most out of your forms :
1. Set form goals
Your forms are hopeless without a goal.
Before you set up a form on your website, ask yourself, “What am I trying to accomplish with this form ?”
It could be :
- Encouraging customers to reach out through a contact form
- To get visitors to leave feedback on your product/service
- Convert visitors into leads by giving you their email
No matter what your goal is, make sure you’re clear on it ; otherwise, you won’t be as targeted and specific with your forms.
Matomo Goals helps you set specific objectives for your marketing campaigns so you’re able to easily track conversions. Whether you’re looking to capture feedback or generate leads, you can leverage Matomo to see what’s working and what’s not in seconds.
2. Remove or improve fields with high average time spent and high drop-off rates
Delving into your Form Analytics provides invaluable insights into individual field performance. A crucial metric to focus on is the Average Time Spent.
If a field stands out with a significantly higher average time spent and experiences a high drop-off rate compared to others in the form, it’s a clear indicator that it’s causing frustration or confusion for your visitors.
To address this, consider improving the field by converting it into a dropdown menu for easier completion or providing helpful text prompts. Alternatively, if the field isn’t essential, you might opt to remove it altogether.
When you cut down on time spent and drop-offs, you’ll see your conversion rates go up.
Here’s a standout example from Matomo’s Form Analytics feature : the “Overview of your needs” field is taking on average 1 minute and 37 seconds to complete.
To streamline this, we might want to consider a simple fix like converting it into a dropdown menu. This change would offer visitors a clearer and quicker way to select from options.
Likewise, we observe that the “Overview of your needs” field experiences the highest drop-off rate, totaling 1,732 drop-offs.
With Form Analytics, it becomes clear what is needed to optimise forms and increase conversions.
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3. Start with the CTA
When crafting and optimising your forms, you need to start with the end in mind. That’s why you need to start with your business goals.
What are you trying to do with this form ? If you want to capture more emails, then make sure that’s very clear with the call to action (CTA).
Start building your form by beginning with the CTA.
For example : “Sign Up Now.”
Once you have the action you want your potential customers to take, place it on the form. Then, you can work towards crafting the rest of the form.
4. Put it above the fold
If your visitors can’t find your form, they won’t fill it out. It’s plain and simple.
You need to make sure your form is visible above the fold. This is the part of the screen that’s visible to your visitors once they land on your site (without needing to scroll down).
Always remember to test this out on both desktop and mobile to ensure anyone (using laptops or a mobile device) will see your form upon landing on your site or page.
Don’t forget about your mobile users. More people view mobile forms than desktop forms.
5. Put a CTA in the headline
Your form needs to be clear.
You have 1-3 seconds to communicate with your site visitors what your form is all about.
For example, if you’re trying to get email signups with a lead magnet, then tell them the benefit quickly and concisely with a CTA in the headline, like this one :
“Subscribe to Save 10% On Your Next Order”
This is a great example of a headline-CTA combo that tells the visitor what to do and what they get out of it.
Matomo’s behaviour analytics features like Session Recordings let you see where visitors are clicking and spending time. For example, if people are reading the headline, but not scrolling down to read the form, it’s probably a sign you need to test a different headline.
6. Ensure you have the right fields
Your form fields matter.
What information are you trying to capture from your audience ?
One beginner mistake people make is requiring too much information and including many fields in a form.
You want to get as much data on your audience as possible, right ? Wrong.
If you ask for too much information, people won’t fill it out, and it will harm the user experience. You need to make it super easy.
If you want more emails to grow your list, then stick with someone’s email (and possibly their name as well). One line for a name. One line for an email address. Keep it simple.
If you’re after SMS as well, don’t include it on the form. Instead, create a two-step form that pops up an SMS form after someone fills out the email form.
Multi-step forms enable you to capture those emails easily (and still get a percentage to fill out the second form) without making it seem like too much work for your audience.
Another path is to include optional fields (that users don’t have to fill out to click submit).
Just keep in mind that shorter forms perform better than longer ones.
If you make them too long, it feels like work for the user and will lead to lower completion rates.
7. Always capture email address
If you’re unsure of what information to capture (i.e. name, number, email, occupation, age, etc.), always stick to email.
Email is used by over 4 billion people every single day, and it’s not going away anytime soon.
When determining which fields to include, start with email.
8. Test different buttons and copy
You need to track your form performance if you want to get the best conversions.
One of the best form elements to start testing is your button copy.
In most cases, form completion buttons will have the word “submit” on them.
But you don’t have to stick with this word.
You can (and should) experiment with different submit button copy.
Here are a few examples of replacement words for your action button :
- Complete
- Sign Up
- Join now
- Get started
Remember to experiment with your action button. Try a different copy. Just keep it short.
You can also try A/B testing your form by experimenting with different colours, copy, and more.
In the example above from Matomo’s A/B testing feature, we found that changing the wording of our call to action made a big difference. The new “Apply Now” button performed much better, with a 3.6% conversion rate compared to just 1.7% for the original one.
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9. Test static vs. popup
There are various types of online forms.
The most common is the static form that just sits in one place and is always there.
Another popular form type is the popup.
This is where a form will appear based on a certain trigger like :
- A certain amount of time on page
- A certain distance scrolling down the page
- If someone is a new or returning visitor
Depending on the form software you use, you may be able to add conditional logic.
Start tracking your form conversions
Form optimisation is all about conversion rate optimisation.
If you want to increase your conversions and generate more revenue, then you need to test out different forms and know how to optimise them.
With Matomo, you can easily track, manage, and A/B test your forms so you can improve your conversions.
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What is White Label Analytics ? Everything You Need to Know
6 février 2024, par ErinReports are a core part of a marketing agency’s offering. It’s how you build trust with clients by highlighting your efforts and demonstrating your results.
But all too often, those reports deliver a jarring and incohesive experience. The culprit ? The logos, colours and names of third-party brands your agency uses to deliver work and create the reports.
Luckily, there’s a way to make sure your reports elevate your agency’s stature ; not undermine it.
By white labelling your tools, you can deliver a clear and cohesive brand experience — one that strengthens the client relationship rather than diminishing it.
In this article, we explain what white label analytics tools are, why it’s important to white label your analytics solution and how you can do it using Matomo.
What is white label analytics ?
White labelling is the process of redesigning a product or service using your company’s brand. The term comes from the act of putting a white label on a product that covers the original branding and allows the reseller to personalise the product.
White label analytics, then, is a way to customise your analytics software with your agency’s logo and colours. When you white label your analytics, you ensure your reports, dashboards and interface provide a consistent and familiar user experience.
The alternative is to provide your clients with an analytics report containing the logo and branding of your analytics software provider — whether that’s Google Analytics, Matomo, or another tool.
For some clients, it can create a confusing experience that takes attention away from your agency’s results.
Why white label analytics is important
There are plenty of reasons to white label your analytics tool, from improving your client’s experience to generating additional revenue. Here are four of the most important benefits to know :
Improve the client experience
You want your clients to have a seamless user experience with your agency’s brand, whether they visit your website, log into their client portal, or read one of your reports.
By white labelling your analytics platform, you can give your clients a visually appealing experience that stays in line with the rest of your branding and doesn’t leave them confused about who they are interacting with or which company is providing the service they pay for.
This is especially important if your agency uses other third-party tools like a client portal or productivity platform that also allows for custom branding.
Strengthen client relationships
When you use white labelling to remove solution providers’ logos, you ensure your brand gets all of the credit for the hard work you’ve been doing. This can strengthen the agency-client relationship and reaffirm the importance of your agency.
But, white labelling allows you to tell a better story through your reports and increases the perceived value you offer. There are no other brands, logos, or names to confuse the narrative or detract from your key points — or to stop the client from understanding just how much value you provide.
Save time and increase productivity
White labelling your analytics platform can save your team a significant amount of time when creating client reports.
There’s no need to carefully screenshot graphs to add them to your own branded report. You can simply email clients a report using your white labelled analytics platform, assuring them of a seamlessly branded experience.
The upshot is that your team can spend more time on billable work, improving the value they deliver to existing clients or opening up capacity to take on even more work.
Increase monetisation opportunities
Whether you are an agency or consultant, white labelling an analytics solution gives you the opportunity to package and sell analytics as part of your own services. This can open up new revenue streams, help you to diversify your income, and reach a wider audience.
The beauty of a white label offering is that there is no allusion to the company providing the underlying service.
The most important elements of an analytics platform to white label
A white label analytics solution should offer a broad range of customisation options that range from surface-level branding to functional elements like tracking codes.
Below we take a look at the top components you should be able to customise with your chosen platform.
Logo and Favicon
The logo is the first thing clients will see when they open up their analytics platform or look at your reports. It should make your services instantly recognisable, which is why it’s so jarring when clients read a report with another company’s brand slapped on every chart.
This should be the very first thing you change since it will be on almost every page and report your client views. Don’t stop there, however. If you send clients web-based reports, you’ll also want to change the platform’s favicon — the small logo you see next to your website in a browser.
Customising both your logo and favicon is easy with Matomo.
Just head to Administration, then General Settings and click Use a custom Logo under Brand settings.
Upload your brand, click Save, and it will automatically populate your brand in place of the Matomo logo across the platform, just like in the image above.
Brand name
Most analytics platforms will mention their brand names repeatedly across the site, so it’s important to change these, too.
Otherwise, you risk clients reading your analytics reports in detail or playing around with your platform’s settings and getting confused when another seemingly unrelated name keeps popping up.
Again, this is easily done with Matomo’s White Label plugin.
Head to Administration, then General Settings. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find WhiteLabel settings.
Enter your brand or product name in the first box and click Save.
Just like your logo, this will replace every instance of Matomo’s brand name with your own.
Brand colours
Changing your analytics platform’s colours to match your own is almost as important as swapping out the logo.
Failure to do so could mean the charts and graphs you add to your client reports could cause confusion.
You can also use Matomo’s WhiteLabel settings to change the platform’s background and font colours.
Just enter a new header background and font colour using hexadecimal values.
This change will also apply to automated email reports.
Custom tracking
Tracking requests and links are an overlooked element of analytics when it comes to white labelling. Most people wouldn’t think twice about them, but they are an easy way for someone in the know to identify which platform you are using.
With Matomo’s White Label plugin, it’s possible to customise every request Matomo makes to your clients’ websites.
If left unbranded, tracking requests contain the following references : matomo.js and matomo.php.
By clicking the Whitelabel tracking endpoint box on the WhiteLabel settings page, those references will be replaced with js/tracker.js and js/tracker.php
You’ll need to update your tracking code to reflect these changes, otherwise, requests will still contain Matomo branding.
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Links
Finally, you’ll want to remove any links to any additional content offered by the analytics company. These are usually included to improve the user experience, but they are best removed if you are letting clients access your platform.
With Matomo, you can remove all links by clicking the relevant box in WhiteLabel settings.
You can also use the Show Marketplace only to Super Users checkbox to limit the visibility of Matomo’s Marketplace to everyone bar Super Users.
Can you white label Google Analytics ?
In a word : no.
Google Analytics might be the most popular analytics platform, but it comes up short if you want to customise its appearance.
This can be a particular problem for agencies that need to stand out from competitors offering the same generic reports. You can add more context, detail and graphs to your analytics reports, of course. But you’ll never be able to create completely custom, brand-cohesive reports using Google Analytics.
3 analytics platforms you can white label
While you can’t white label Google Analytics, there are several web analytics providers that do offer a white labelling service. Here are three of the best :
Matomo
As you’ve already seen, Matomo is the ideal web analytics platform if you want to let your own brand shine through. Matomo lets you personalise the entire dashboard and all of your reports. That includes :
- Adding your brand logo and favicon
- Changing the font and background colours
- Removing third-party links
- Tracking using custom URLs
- Develop your own custom theme
Matomo offers a 21-day free trial (no credit card required). If you want to get remove the Matomo branding, you need the White Label plugin, which starts at just $179 per year after a free trial.
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Clicky
Clicky is a simple, privacy-focused web analytics platform with a white label offering. Like Matomo, you can add your logo and change the platform’s colours.
Clicky offers a seven-day free trial and charges a $99 setup fee, with prices starting from $49 and rising to $399.
Plausible
Plausible is another privacy-focused Google Analytics alternative that offers white labelling. The difference here is that it’s pretty complex to set up.
Rather than customising Plausible’s platform, for instance, you need to embed its dashboard into your own user interface. If you want to create your own custom dashboard, you’ll need to use an API.
Plausible offers a 30-day free trial.
Leverage white label analytics today with Matomo
Don’t put up with confusing unbranded clients a moment longer. White label your analytics platform so the next time you sit down to share insights with your clients, they’ll only see one brand : yours.
Matomo makes it quick and easy to customise the look of your analytics platform and all of the reports you generate. If you already use Matomo, try the White Label plugin free for 30 days.
If not, try Matomo with a free 21-day trial. No credit card required.
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