Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
by pcstl on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:02PM
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And both > one of them.
Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
by ThalesX on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:37PM
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But then surely, adding a prayer to St. Isidore of Seville [0] before every release will be better than just the both of them, so three > both > one.
I've recently interacted with a startup where the amount of resources they spend on trying to get them both, is making them blind to the power of one. It's not a pretty sight when all the numbers are tracked, plotted and planned on, yet nothing seems to work.
Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
by viraptor on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:13AM
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You can misuse everything. As you mentioned: "all the numbers are tracked, plotted and planned on, yet nothing seems to work." Sounds like there's a plan but no execution / follow up. That's not a problem with either analytics or user feedback.
This is provably false. You do not need intrusive analytics to develop fantastic products.
Have people somehow forgotten about good old-fashioned user testing? It is expensive, time consuming, and amazingly effective. Most importantly you can actually talk to your users because they are people instead of data points.
User feedback >>> analytics.