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Joe Maurer is Project Coordinator behind the scenes, orchestrating content creation from first draft to final delivery. With 20+ years as a freelance web & graphic designer, he brings precision, design sensibility, and process mastery to every piece.

7 Mixpanel alternatives to consider for better web and product analytics

August 1, 2025 by Joe Maurer

Mixpanel is a web and mobile analytics platform that brings together product and marketing data so teams can see the impact of their actions and understand the customer journey.  It’s a well-rounded tool with features that help product teams understand …

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Categories Analytics Tips, App Analytics

First-party data explained: Benefits, use cases and best practices

July 25, 2025 by Joe Maurer

Third-party cookies are being phased out, and marketers who still depend on them for user insights need to find alternatives. Google delayed the complete deprecation of third-party cookies until early 2025, but many other browsers, such as Mozilla, Brave, and Safari, …

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Categories GDPR

Unlocking the power of web analytics dashboards

July 22, 2025 by Joe Maurer

In the web analytics world, we have no shortage of data — clicks, views, scrolls, bounce rates — yet still struggle to extract valuable, actionable insights. There are facts and figures about any action anybody takes (or doesn’t take) when …

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Categories Analytics Tips, App Analytics

Privacy-enhancing technologies: Balancing data utility and security

July 18, 2025 by Joe Maurer

In the third quarter of 2024, data breaches exposed 422.61 million records, affecting millions of people around the world. This highlights the need for organisations to prioritise user privacy.  Privacy-enhancing technologies can help achieve this by protecting sensitive information and enabling …

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Categories GDPR, Security

Choosing the best self-hosted open-source analytics platform

July 16, 2025 by Joe Maurer

Google Analytics (GA) is the most widely used analytics platform, with 50.3% of the top 1 million active websites using it today. You’re probably using it right now.  But despite being a free tool, Google Analytics is proprietary software, which means you’re …

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Categories Analytics Tips

Enterprise web analytics: Quick start guide (and top tools)

July 10, 2025 by Joe Maurer

Without data, you’ll get lost in the sea of competition. This is even more important for large organisations. Data helps you: How do you get the benefits of data in a large organisation? Enterprise web analytics. In this guide, we’ll …

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Categories Analytics Tips

What is audience segmentation? The 8 main types and examples

July 8, 2025 by Joe Maurer

Marketers must reach the right person at the right time with the most relevant messaging. Customers now expect personalised experiences, which means generic campaigns won’t work. Audience segmentation is the key to doing this.  This isn’t an easy process because …

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Categories Marketing

Server-side tracking vs client-side tracking: What you need to know

July 3, 2025 by Joe Maurer

Server-side tracking vs client-side tracking: What you need to know Today, consumers are more aware of their online privacy rights, leading to an extensive use of ad blockers and stricter cookie policies. Organisations are facing some noteworthy challenges with this …

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Categories Product News

Multilingual SEO: A Marketer’s Guide to Measuring and Optimising Multilingual Websites

June 26, 2025 by Joe Maurer

The web—and search engines in particular—make it easier than ever for businesses of any size to reach an international audience.   A multilingual website makes sense, especially when the majority of websites are in English. After all, you want to stand out …

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Categories Marketing

Why Matomo is the top Google Analytics alternative

March 18, 2026June 17, 2025 by Joe Maurer

You probably made the switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) when Google stopped collecting Universal Analytics (UA) data in July 2023. Up to that point, UA had long been the default analytics platform, despite its many limitations.  This was mostly because everyone …

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