Technical Web Analyst / Tracking Specialist (Dutch-speaking)

Recent developments in Safari’s web browser, such as Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), have made tracking user behaviour over longer periods more difficult. For Transavia, where the customer journey between booking a flight and the actual departure date can be lengthy, this presented a significant challenge. Without an effective solution, Transavia risked losing crucial customer insights and undermining the effectiveness of their marketing strategies.

MS Mode & America Today used Universal Analytics (UA) for analysing their online stores. They had fully implemented e-commerce tracking, with KPIs such as transactions, average order value, and abandoned shopping carts visualised in Looker Studio.

There are currently a lot of developments surrounding Google Analytics, including user privacy (GDPR) and the sunset of Universal Analytics. For Miele X, the digital branch of Miele, GA4 was also one of the topics on their agenda as part of their bigger plans towards a more privacy-centric and vendor-agnostic way of data collection. They enlisted our help to support them with the transition from Universal Analytics 360 to GA4.

From 1 July 2024, it will no longer be possible to process data in Universal Analytics 360 (hereinafter: UA360). Wehkamp collected data in UA360 and was keen to be prepared in time for the migration. In addition, they wanted to collect at least 1 year of historical data for UA360's sunset. This allowed Wehkamp to compare the data in UA360 and in GA4. A key desire was to migrate the measurements as-is.

ABN AMRO partnered with our team to create a standardised digital data layer, addressing challenges with uniformity, reliability, and efficiency in their migration to a new analytics platform. The new standard allows for consistent tagging of all online components, leading to improved tagging management and reliable digital data for future use.

Univé is a Dutch insurance company that offers insurance, financial products, and services to both consumers and businesses. The company is focused on providing high-quality service and helping customers make responsible financial decisions. Since 2014, we have been working closely with Univé.

An interest group for homeowners offers a wide range of content and services on its website that can be closed online. In order to serve its website visitors in the best possible way, interactions with the services, funnels and content pages must be properly measured. They already did this with our support, with Universal Analytics (GA3). To be well prepared for the future, they asked us to implement Google Analytics 4.

Univé is the only Dutch insurer with a website, App and physical stores. They therefore follow an omni-channel strategy. According to its own '1 digital front door principle', the insurer also wanted to offer customers the opportunity to take out/change insurance policies and report damages via the App. They asked our Data Analysts to make the new funnels measurable.

Nuon became Vattenfall in October 2019. The rebranding was a good reason to optimise Analytics. There was a renewed focus on applying insights from user data in the Mijn Vattenfall environment. The data collected for this was not always reliable. In addition, there was insufficient knowledge and capacity within the department to maintain the Analytics. The energy supplier asked for our help to support them in re-establishing the tagging and analytics of Mijn Vattenfall.

Within KPN, one team is responsible for the implementation of Adobe Analytics, the Digital Performance team. Due to the working method that had developed before the formation of this team, the specialists did not work together optimally.

In recent months there has been a lot to do about third-party cookies and their not-so-imminent-anymore end-of-life in the Google Chrome browser. Is this then much to do about nothing or should you brace yourself for a paradigm-changing shift? In this article we will lift the veil over this important topic. Also, we’ll share 7 hands-on tips to prepare yourself for what’s coming.

"How many transactions did we have last week? Our back office reports 12,000 transactions, the database 15,000, and Google Analytics 11,000. Why don’t these numbers match?" In theory, systems tracking transactions should align. However, discrepancies are common across back-offices, databases, and web analytics tools.

Server-side tracking is becoming a hot topic among agencies, marketeers and analysts. A lot of information is available on the subject, but it is not always accurate. Server-side tracking has often been sold as a miracle solution against data loss, GDPR and other unethical challenges.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) was launched by Apple in 2017 in an effort to restore "the balance the balance between privacy and the need for on-device data storage". With Intelligent Tracking Prevention, Apple aims to reduce cross-site tracking (following users across websites) by limiting the use of cookies. Find out what this means for you.

There are reasons abound for deploying a tagging server on your website. This blog will not be about why it makes sense (or why perhaps in your case it doesn’t) to use server-side tagging. Instead we will jump forward in time and ask ourselves another pertinent question: ‘how can you tell if your tagging server is doing what it is supposed to?’

July got off to a rocky start. First, we saw the Swedish Data Protection Agency (DPA) issued a warning to stop using Google Analytics due to the risks posed to privacy under the lack of an adequacy decision for EU-US data transfers. In the same week, the EU Commission reached an adequacy decision with the US for the third time. Can you now finally share personal data for all purposes with US based organisations or should you change course?

The world of web analytics is constantly changing due to technological and legal developments. One significant event in the field of technical web analytics is the introduction of server-side tracking, which allows companies to have full control over their data flows.

Did the following scenario happen to you last week? While enjoying your morning coffee, you take a look at your pride and joy: a meticulously created Looker Studio dashboard built with the GA4 connector. You rub the sleep from your eyes and see your charts are all broken. Frantic phone calls from colleagues are pouring in. What is happening? Find out in this post what the consequences of Google’s newly imposed quota on the Google Analytics Data API are.

An interest group for homeowners offers a wide range of content and services on its website that can be closed online. In order to serve its website visitors in the best possible way, interactions with the services, funnels and content pages must be properly measured. They already did this with our support, with Universal Analytics (GA3). To be well prepared for the future, they asked us to implement Google Analytics 4.

With our variable in the Google Tag Manager Community Template Gallery it is easy to start using all the new ecommerce analytics capabilities that Google Analytics 4 offers while fully supporting the 'old' enhanced ecommerce of Universal Analytics. Find out how the variable works.

A tag management system such as Google Tag Manager (GTM) enables you to measure visitor behaviour on your website. You can also implement marketing pixels (such as Google Ads and Facebook) and cookie banners via this platform. This article gives you tips to keep in mind when setting up GTM. This allows you to collect reliable and usable data, and you will be less dependent on your web developers.