Ads, Tracking, Analytics and Dataviz
You’ve heard the term “server-side tracking” thrown around like it’s the holy grail of analytics. But let’s be honest—most explanations either oversimplify it to the point of uselessness or dive so deep into technical jargon that you need a PhD…
Getting Started In the hyper-competitive mobile app ecosystem, measurement isn’t just important—it’s existential. But with dozens of metrics to track and a fragmented attribution landscape, how do you know what actually matters? Let’s break down the essential KPIs, explore the…
Last updated: November 2025Reading time: ~25 minutesLevel: Advanced Introduction When implementing Meta (Facebook) tracking for mobile applications, most developers rely on the official Meta SDK to handle event collection and transmission. The SDK automatically collects device information, handles user identification,…
Most advertisers assume that Enhanced Conversions (EC) and Customer Match (CM) are nearly the same thing. Both use hashed email addresses.Both rely on Google’s identity graph.Both “match” users inside Google’s ecosystem. This leads many teams to believe that importing a…
GTM, Adobe Launch, Matomo – and why a “universal consent dataLayer” does not exist Many teams assume that CMPs (Axeptio, Didomi, OneTrust, Cookiebot…) all push the same consent attributes into the dataLayer.This is false. Each Tag Manager (Google Tag Manager,…
Google Analytics 4 does support offline data import.But most implementations aren’t compatible with it — not because GA4 is limited, but because the tracking foundations weren’t designed with offline reconciliation in mind. And offline import in GA4 is nothing like…
Most marketers assume Google Ads and Meta Ads automatically attach UTM parameters to their URLs.They don’t.Not by mistake, but by design. Both platforms prefer to keep analysis inside their own ecosystem. UTMs are “data escape hatches”: as soon as they…
Shopify has modernized its tracking ecosystem with the introduction of Web Pixels — a concept I’ve covered before.It’s clean, sandboxed, privacy-compliant… but it remains primarily site-centric.The Web Pixel listens to Shopify-native events such as product_viewed, add_to_cart, and checkout_completed, yet it…
1. Introduction Shopify has radically changed how tracking works.Gone are the days when you could drop a script into theme.liquid and call it a day.Since 2023, Shopify Checkout Extensibility has replaced checkout.liquid,eliminating the ability to freely inject JavaScript inside the…
From 2023 onward, Shopify revamped how client events are collected. Gone are the days of sprinkling GA4 or Meta Pixel code in theme.liquid or checkout.liquid. The platform now promotes the Web Pixels API, a cleaner, more reliable, and consent-friendly tracking…