How Bots can Impact your Site

When it comes to optimizing our sites, there are many factors we need to monitor and adjust to ensure that our users have the best experience possible. One factor that can heavily impact our sites performance and user experience is bot traffic on our pages. What are bots? Bots are programs that are automated to […]

Marketing Metrics: Measuring Success

As we optimize our sites and channels, it can be difficult to know what’s working and what’s not. We may understand our goals well: bring traffic to our site, attract more engagement, and turn visitors into customers, but measuring our progress towards those goals can be vague without firm numbers. To gain a better understanding […]

First Impressions: Above the Fold Content

In previous articles, we have dived into many ways you can improve user experience on your website. From optimizing SEO for better rank to using Google analytics tools to understand your users better, improving user experience is a site wide endeavor. However, one aspect of your site that may need work is the first thing […]

Challenges of Switching to GA4

Starting July 1st, 2023, Google’s Universal Analytics will become deprecated. In its place, Google Analytics 4 will become the default analytics tool for tracking engagement and traffic on your websites. With more granular data collection and broader customization, GA4 has a lot to offer. However, the improvements made in GA4 as compared to its predecessor […]

Important Metrics to Track in GA4

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a powerful analytics service that offers granular data about your site’s traffic engagement. In our previous article concerning GA4, we introduced GA4 and guided readers on how to start collecting data on their own websites. Next, lets explore a few important metrics to track as you use GA4. GA4 has […]

Speed up your X-cart site!

Many X-cart sites that have been around a while start to get slower and slower. This is especially true if you have the Advanced Statistics module on. This module is required to be on for the bestsellers module to work. The good news is, there’s usually a really easy quick fix for speeding up your […]