Celebrating your Favourite Posts of 2015

Wishing all our readers and followers a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! With the Christmas rush over it’s time to sit back, relax and ring in the New Year … and check out your favourite posts for 2015.

Your Top 15 for 2015

We’ve had some really fantastic posts this year and a few new faces, so in order to do justice to our audience and bloggers we’re doing a Top 15 of 2015. If your favourite didn’t make the list please let us know in the comments below.

Most Viewed

1. Google Analytics Custom Alerts which you must always use by Himanshu Sharma
2. 10 Tips to Improve Your Google Analytics Data Quality by Paul Koks
3. Custom Variables in Google vs. Adobe vs. Webtrends Analytics – Part I by Lukas Oldenburg
4. Why Google Analytics needs to fix its Sessions by Lukas Oldenburg
5. 4 Mistakes Made when Setting up Google Analytics Reports by Mark Hansen
6. Six Google Analytics Views Everybody Should Set Up by Paul Koks
7. How to create Universal data layer for Google Tag Manager by Himanshu Sharma
8. Mobile Analytics Predictions for 2015 by Alon Even
9. Telling a Story with your Analytics Reports by Mark Hansen
10. Are You a Serious Analyst? by Ralf Haberich
11. Adobe Analytics: No need to “Break Down” Thanks to Revamped Calculated Metrics by Lukas Oldenburg
12. Six Ways to Manipulate Google Analytics Data by Paul Koks
13. How to Get Rid of Google Analytics Referrer Spam [Infographic] by Angela Wilkinson
14. Digital Intelligence – Strategic Analytics Predictions for 2015 by Ralf Haberich
15. How to Calculate Digital Customer Lifetime Value by Matt Lindsay

Social Media

We wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all our new followers on social media. A few years ago we did a word cloud of all new Twitter followers for the entire year. It was huge. So we’ve decided to break that down and from now on we’ll be adding a wordcloud like this one …

… to all our 6 month review posts. At the moment it’s only new Twitter followers but in 2016 we’ll be working on a way to add in all our new Google+, LinkedIn and Facebook followers as well. 

Most Tweeted

As you know Twitter has undergone some serious changes this year so the look of this list might change next time, but for now here are the Top 15 posts that you tweeted most about:

1. 10 Tips to Improve your Google Analytics Data Quality by Paul Koks
2. Google Analytics Custom Alerts which you must always use by Himanshu Sharma
3. Are you a Serious Analyst? by Ralf Haberich
4. How to Create a Universal Data Layer for Google Tag Manager by Himanshu Sharma
5. How to Get Rid of Pesky Referrer Spam [Infographic] by Angela Wilkinson
6. Thou Shalt Not be Data Driven by Ralf Haberich
7. Six Ways to Manipulate Google Analytics Data by Paul Koks
8. Why Google Analytics Needs to Fix its Sessions by Lukas Oldenburg
9. How to Calculate Digital Customer Lifetime Value by Matt Lindsay
10. 4 Mistakes Made when Setting up Google Analytics Reports by Mark Hansen
11. Mobile Analytics: Breaking Through in 2015 by Alon Even
12. Six Google Analytics Views Everybody Should Set Up by Paul Koks
13. Custom Variables in Google vs. Adobe vs. Webtrends Analytics – Part I by Lukas Oldenburg
14. The Importance of Being Mobile by Fiona Roddis
15. Why Health Analytics could be a World Changing New Industry by Kenny Fraser

Most Facebook Likes

1. 10 Tips to Improve your Google Analytics Data Quality  by Paul Koks
2. Google Analytics Custom Alerts which you must always use by Himanshu Sharma
3. Supercharge Mobile Screen Performance with UX Analytics by Alon Even
4. Are Leaders Born or Made? by WAW Team
5. Why Google Analytics Needs to Fix its Sessions by Lukas Oldenburg
6. Six Google Analytics Views Everybody Should Set Up by Paul Koks
7. Adobe Analytics: No Need to “Break Down” Thanks to Revamped Calculated Metrics by Lukas Oldenburg
8. Custom Variables in Google vs. Adobe vs. Webtrends Analytics – Part I by Lukas Oldenburg
9. Listen to the Voices of your Data for Great Analytics by Kenny Fraser
10. 4 Mistakes Made when Setting up Google Analytics Reports by Mark Hansen
11. Mobile Analytics: Breaking Through in 2015 by Alon Even
12. How to Get Rid of Pesky Referrer Spam [Infographic] by Angela Wilkinson
13. Why Health Analytics could be a World Changing New Industry by Kenny Fraser
14. Mobile Analytics Guide for Mobile Websites by Daniel Laws
15. Why It’s Time to Rethink the 1898 AIDA Model by Ralf Haberich

Most Google +1′d

1. 10 Tips to Improve your Google Analytics Data Quality  by Paul Koks
2. Google Analytics Custom Alerts which you must always use by Himanshu Sharma
3. 4 Mistakes Made when Setting up Google Analytics Reports by Mark Hansen
4. Mobile Analytics: Breaking Through in 2015 by Alon Even
5. How to Get Rid of Pesky Referrer Spam [Infographic] by Angela Wilkinson
6. Why Google Analytics Needs to Fix its Sessions by Lukas Oldenburg
7. What Google AdWords Data to Include in your Reports by Mark Hansen
8. Custom Variables in Google vs. Adobe vs. Webtrends Analytics – Part I by Lukas Oldenburg
9. Digital Intelligence – Strategic Analytics Predictions for 2015 by Ralf Haberich
10. Mobile Analytics Guide for Mobile Websites by Daniel Laws
11. Are you a Serious Analyst? by Ralf Haberich
12. Six Google Analytics Views Everybody Should Set Up by Paul Koks
13. Adobe Analytics: No Need to “Break Down” Thanks to Revamped Calculated Metrics by Lukas Oldenburg
14. Cruising through SharePoint with Content Analytic Reports by Marlee Long
15. Telling a Story with your Analytics Reports by Mark Hansen

Most LinkedIn Shares

1. 10 Tips to Improve your Google Analytics Data Quality  by Paul Koks
2. Are you a Serious Analyst? by Ralf Haberich
3. Mobile Analytics: Breaking Through in 2015 by Alon Even
4. Why Google Analytics Needs to Fix its Sessions by Lukas Oldenburg
5. As the C-Suite Becomes More Digital CMOs Must Align by Ralf Haberich
6. Telling a Story with your Analytics Reports by Mark Hansen
7. How to Calculate Digital Customer Lifetime Value by Matt Lindsay
8. Custom Variables in Google vs. Adobe vs. Webtrends Analytics – Part I by Lukas Oldenburg
9. Google Analytics Custom Alerts which you must always use by Himanshu Sharma
10. How to Get Rid of Pesky Referrer Spam [Infographic] by Angela Wilkinson
11. Six Ways to Manipulate Google Analytics Data by Paul Koks
12. Thou Shalt Not be Data Driven by Ralf Haberich
13. Mobile Analytics Guide for Mobile Websites by Daniel Laws
14. How to create Universal data layer for Google Tag Manager by Himanshu Sharma
15. Surprise Board Meeting? Use Google Analytics Reports to get Prepared by Robert Fleeting

Wrapping up 2015

A huge thanks to all our amazing bloggers and you, our audience as we couldn’t do this without all of you! We hope you all have a safe and wonderful New Year and we’re looking forward to more great things to come in 2016! 

Are there some we’ve missed? Are there topics you wish we’d write more on or topics we don’t cover but you’d like to know more about?  Let us know in the comments below!