Most people who are serious about website measurement use a web analytics package with Google Analytics Universal (UA) version being the most popular. The easiest way to implement UA is to use Google Tag Manager (GTM). GTM holds your tags, variables and triggers. You can view the contents of a…
Google analytics 4 has been out over a year now. Adoption has been really slow. I have seen very few installs compared to Universal Analytics. I was on Twitter the other day and someone asked the question about adoption of GA4. I sent the guy to the Builtwith site that…
Since June 2021 Google have stopped offering free unlimited photo storage. This was one of the killer features of Google Photos. A lot of people are going to be paying for storage. For small amounts, its not too bad. 100gb is about €20 a year. It will add up over…
I got an email today from William Hill, they were asking me to update the KQCs for their casino offer. Basically, its the extra text where you have to put the main terms of the offer below any advertisement. Bet365 call this the short terms, I guess KQC is the…
I recently did an interview for a FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) site called Firedave.com Today Dave answers the same question set he sent to me. Who are you, and how did you discover fire? I am Fire Dave and had already been working a lot of the concepts and…
I have a buddy called Mike who has a 9 year old boy in y4. As part of his maths homework he got this question, Challenge Using the digits one to eight, how many different ways can you find to make two numbers whose sum is nine thousand, nine hundred…
I recently came across a couple of blog posts about getting solar panels in Ireland. Part 1 one and Part 2 Excellent posts. You can defintely save money and do your bit for global warming. The main calculation is in part 1 So let’s get to the bottom line savings….
Sometimes you need to keep a master copy of some text on a website that just updates. For example, if you have a group of terms and conditions across multiple sites then it would be easier to update once rather than on each site. I needed a solution as Bet365…
Sending parcels to the UK pre Brexit was relatively easy. You just took your parcel to the post office and they’d sent it for you. This is apart from things with lithium-ion batteries inside. This is a nuisance for mobile phones, laptops, and watches. An Post will not accept these….
One of the questions I used to always ponder was what was the best payment plan for affiliates. My experience is mainly in igaming but the same pros and cons apply to all industries. CPL – Cost Per Lead – you get paid for every lead you send. Quite rare…
If you were on Reddit at the end of January 2021, all the stories were about Wallstreetbets (WSB) and GME shares. Seems likes every other story was about GME and the hedge funds shorting too much and retail buyes punishing them. Rather than revinventingthe wheel, here’s a short explanation from…
I was expecting a big negative change when shopping on Amazon.co.uk from Ireland in a negative way. I’ve been using Hagglezon which compares the various Amazon sites across Europe to give you the best price. You have to factor in postage but it can work out cheaper and if UK…