Statistically, if you own or manage a website, you’re probably using Google Analytics. For countless business owners and marketers, Google Analytics is their go-to source for website performance data. Google’s dominance in the analytics world looks set to continue, even as it currently migrates its 35 million customers onto Google Analytics 4 (otherwise known as GA4 – the new version of its product) by July 1 2023.

We recently shipped a new Geckoboard integration for Bannerbear. Why should you care? Because now you can generate snazzy images and graphics that display instantly on your Geckoboard dashboard. From live weather reports, to more engaging ways to visualize customer feedback, the possibilities are endless. And the best part is, you can automate the entire process, end-to-end. What is Bannerbear?

In marketing and sales, purchase funnels form a crucial part of how we view the customer journey. And the most common way of measuring the effectiveness of a purchase funnel is with conversion rates. Conversion rates provide a temptingly simple way of measuring how successful each of your tactics or touchpoints has been in moving the customer along – one step nearer to that all-important final stage – the sale.

In business, we use summary metrics all the time. A summary metric is just another way of saying you have summarized a series of data into a single data point – like a total or an average. Most of the time, when you report on business KPIs like Revenue, Customer Satisfaction, Acquisition Cost, or Lifetime Value, you’re doing so in the form of a summary metric. But summary metrics can be misleading, because they reduce complex patterns in your data down to simple, singular figures.