Thanks!! We see so much in the "social media marketing" space about
"measuring ROI" and "competing on analytics" that it's difficult to
get executive buy-in where we know they should be going. Real-time is
where the analytics market is going - I'm really surprised Google
hasn't put up somet
Google Analytics is javascript based which means a browser or some
environment that can execute JS needs to open a page for a "pageview"
There are many more HTTP requests for a given URL. Bots, spiders,
aggregators etc.
Since Bit.ly and other shorteners are doing 301 redirects, they can't really
The problem is this - we are doing promo stuff on Twitter, we were using
http://tr.im but they never got back to us with an API key, and now we're
using bit.ly. It's slick but if it's gonna be off by a factor of 10 for
these low volume links we have a real reporting problem - we don't always
get
