Likelihood to Recommend Google Analytics is particularly well suited for tracking and analyzing customer behavior on a grocery e-commerce platform. It provides a wealth of information about customer behavior, including what products are most popular, what pages are visited the most, and where customers are coming from. This information can help the platform optimize its website for better customer engagement and conversion rates. However, Google Analytics may not be the best tool for more advanced, granular analysis of customer behavior, such as tracking individual customer journeys or understanding customer motivations. In these cases, it may be more appropriate to use additional tools or solutions that provide deeper insights into customer behavior.
Read full review ObservePoint is a great tool for automating page testing and standardizing campaigns to observe accurate customer insights. You can identify customer mapping journey. They also help in data protection and insights which are very important and essential these days. They should work more on easy interface designs. Overall, it is the best.
Read full review Pros Multiple reports to see website use and behavior Allows you to customize reports with days, weeks, months, and years You can build out a dashboard to easily view stats from multiple websites in one place You can share analytics reports via the dashboard, automatically emailed PDFs or in other formats Read full review The UI for ObservePoint is intuitive and robust. This makes training new engineers and using the product easy and productive. All Audit exports are formatted as tab delimited text files making the data easy to analyze and manipulate in a Spreadsheet or database. The list of tag vendors that are discoverable is comprehensive making it easy to interrogate most any tagging implementation. Standard reporting within the UI is robust and easy to consume. Read full review Cons Data sampling is somewhat inaccurate on the free tier - this is addressed in premium but is expensive. Some of the UI is very similar in naming when presenting different data, some in-situ information might be useful. Gotchas around filtering and data validation. Implementation can be tricky, it can take a lot of time and expertise to get a full, accurate picture of your metrics. Read full review Page details, although interesting, are not very useful as the data is too granular and not possible to integrate with other analytics data for insights. Some of the custom tagging may be a little complicated, so sometimes we need an engineer or an ObservePoint tech to help us out. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We will continue to use Google Analytics for several reasons. It is free, which is a huge selling point. It houses all of our ecommerce stores' data, and though it can't account for refunds or fraud orders, gives us and our clients directional, real time information on individual and group store performance.
Read full review ObservePoint has a robust solution that is well supported and is continually innovating to meet new business and technology needs.
Read full review Usability Google Analytics provides a wealth of data, down to minute levels. That is it's greatest detriment: find the right information when you need it can be a cumbersome task. You are able to create shortcuts, however, so it can mitigate some of this problem. Google is continually refining Analytics, so I do not doubt there will be improvements
Read full review It's easy to navigate and learn. The reporting and output are intuitive and robust features for finding and identifying actionable insight.
Read full review Reliability and Availability We all know Google is at top when it comes to availability. We have never faced any such instances where I can suggest otherwise. All you need is a Google account, a device and internet connection to use this super powerful tool for reporting and visualising your site data, traffic, events, etc. that too in real time.
Read full review I've only experienced one system availability issue in the 3 years we've been using it.
Read full review Performance This has been a catalyst for improving our site's traffic handling capabilities. We were able to identify exit% from our sites through it and we used recommendations to handle and implement the same in our sites. We have been increasing the usage of Google Analytics in our sites and never had any performance related issues if we used Analytics
Read full review Sometimes it can get a bit slow when auditing particularly huge sites but recent upgrades in infrastructure have done a lot to mitigate this behavior.
Read full review Support Rating The Google reps respond very quickly. However, sometimes they can overly call you to set up an apportionment. I'm very proficient and sometimes when I talk to reps, they give beginner tutorials and insights that are a waste of time. I wish Google would understand my level of expertise and assign me to a rep (long-term) that doesn't have to walk me through the basics.
Read full review Support is very strong indeed and has been consistent over the last 4 years. They are also friendly and tag nerds like me!
Barry Mann Freelance Web Analytics, Insight and Optimisation
Read full review In-Person Training Instructor was knowledgeable and delivered the content well.
Read full review Online Training Read full review It's easy to find the information you need when you need it and it is easy to consume.
Read full review Implementation Rating I think my biggest take away from the Google Analytics implementation was that there needs to be a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and how you want to achieve it before you start. Originally the analytics were added to track visitors, but as we became more savvy with the product, we began adding more and more functionality, and defining guidelines as we went along. While not detrimental to our success, this lack of an overarching goal resulted in some minor setbacks in implementation and the collection of some messy data that is unusable.
Read full review Start with small audits until you have determined what you might want to filter out.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I have not used
Adobe Analytics as much, but I know they offer something called customer journey analytics, which we are evaluating now. I have used
Semrush , and I find them much better than Google Analytics. I feel a fairly nontechnical person could learn
Semrush in about a month. They also offer features like competitive analysis (on content, keywords, traffic, etc.), which is very useful. If you have to choose one among
Semrush and Google Analytics, I would say go for
Semrush .
Read full review I have not used any other product other than ObservePoint for my requirements. there are a number of features for which it has proved helpful. Technology Governance ensures our data collection tools and processes are executing as planned, so our organization can make better decisions based on better data and so on
Read full review Scalability Google Analytics is currently handling the reporting and tracking of near about 80 sites in our project. And I am not talking about the sites from different projects. They may have way more accounts than that. Never ever felt a performance issue from Google's end while generating or customising reports or tracking custom events or creating custom dimensions
Read full review I have not reached an unreasonable product limitation as of yet.
Read full review Return on Investment It has helped us gain understanding of what is going on on our website. It has helped us determine areas that need fixing (i.e. pages with extremely high bounce rates may need to be redone). It has helped us understand our biggest avenues for bringing traffic to the website and business in general. It has helped guide our website redesign. Read full review ObservePoint has helped us quickly (within minutes) catch when a process or pathing on the website breaks, which allows us to fix it quickly. Whether technical/dev or analytics issues, without ObservePoint, they could have been undetected for weeks. Read full review ScreenShots