Google Analytics (GA) is an exceptional analytical engine, but it lacks an inherent understanding of your business’s critical metrics. Whether your key online goals revolve around subscription purchases or phone calls, GA needs customization to reflect what’s most important to you. This guide will focus on how to categorize streams of data—such as visits, events, clicks, views, and scrolls—into meaningful groups to facilitate deeper and more effective analysis.
For a long time, we have been living in a world where we use default approaches without fully thinking about their purpose. Take WordPress as an example: it's a powerful application, but it requires MySQL as its database, and to make it fast, you often need Memcache to cache MySQL queries and reduce database load. Alongside, there's the WYSIWYG editor, which, in theory, allows users to edit HTML easily, but in practice often generates unreadable, bloated code.