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As any good business knows, having accurate data to help in the decision making process is a crucial element of success. When your business has an online presence – such as a website – that provides your company with leads and/or sales, collecting and analyzing accurate data becomes even more valuable.

So what happens to the decision making process if you can’t trust your data? What happens if the data you need to make a critical decision was never collected at all? Unfortunately, this happens far more often than you might think.

A recent study performed by TagMan, revealed that 86% of respondents found incorrect implementation tags implemented incorrectly on the various sites that they managed. 86%!!! “Sure”, you say, “broken tags…but what does that do to the bottom line?”

Well, 28% of respondents could directly attribute a loss in sales to those broken tags, and whether you are talking about thousands of dollars or millions of dollars that is a significant percentage.

Furthermore, over 1/3 saw instances where incorrectly implemented tags actually broke a webpage, and almost 2/3 lost some sort of campaign data. That data may well have meant the difference between a good decision and a bad one.

When it comes to gathering online data that you can trust, it’s important to ensure accurate tag implementation, and the only efficient way to do that is with tag validation software. If you own a business with an online presence, you can’t afford to let data or sales slip through your fingers! Fortunately, with ObservePoint’s SiteAudit software, you don’t have to. Just look at these features:

• Automated tag discovery, saving you significant time and money,
• 100% Web Based – No need for any implementation or site coding,
• Detects any tag type, including custom tags
• And you can schedule tag audits and reports as often as you would like.

Performing a proper tag check is a critical step in acquiring website data you can trust to help you in your decision making processes, and in potentially avoiding significant financial losses.

Still not sure if your company needs a Site Audit? We offer a completely free 15-day trial so you can test it out and see for yourselves the benefit to the bottom line.

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WatchMouse honoured as a leading European TMT company

BARCELONA, Spain and AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – 24 September 2010 – WatchMouse, a global leader in website performance and application monitoring was named as one of 10 Young Bull winners today for the inaugural 2010 Bully Award honouring the leading European technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies as presented by White Bull Summits.

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Uptrends announces the Uptrends uptime Gadget for Windows feature as part of the Uptrends monitoring service.
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ObservePoint has recently improved the analytics auditing process with a streamlined report builder.

Most of the insights you’ll find in SiteAudit will be while you’re using the Report Builder.  Think of the Report Builder like you would a pivot table in Microsoft Excel.  You have a data set that consists of all of the pages you’ve audited and now you’re looking for some insights like missing tags, broken links / pages or custom variables with missing or incorrect values.

You can access the Report Builder from the Audit menu, then select any of the clickable links in the domain Summary.  The Report Builder consists of a set of filters and a report presented in a row, column format.  As you create filters, new data will be displayed in the report.

How to Use the Report Builder

1. Select Filter Type and Account

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The new report builder dynamically populates every account and variable into its filters.

Start building a report by making selections in the “find” row. You can have Site Audit find pages with or without a tag, all pages, or unique values in an audit. In this example, we’ll choose a google Analytics account.

2. Set Filters

Filters will allow you to find specific types of data in two categories: page data and tag variables.

Page data are characteristics of each page audited. This is useful when trying to audit specific aspects of your site, such as load time or page structure, or when trying to find a particular URL for further inspection.

Tag Variables is a dynamically populated list that allows you to inspect variables in the tag you selected in step 1. Some tag types contain more variables than others (think of Omniture vs. google Analytics), so only the variables found in the tag selected will display in this list.

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Use the dynamically updating filter list to find specific data in the audit.

Each new filter will display the data found during the audit.  For example, if a SiteCatalyst analytics tag was found with s.prop6, you’ll see prop6 listed as a choice for your filter.

Each filter you add will narrow the results.  If you select a filter that returns zero results, you must delete that filter in order to return to the previous results set.  Setting a filter will display the values for that filter. For example, selecting Loadtime will add the load time column to the results.

When you’re ready to save the data in the Report Builder, select the Export button to save the data as a CSV file.

For frequently answered questions, be sure to visit our live-updating FAQ.

If you aren’t using SiteAudit to ensure data integrity across your analytics solutions, chances are you are missing vital information. Get your free account now.

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We are pleased to inform you that we have expanded our network of monitoring stations. We have added new monitoring stations in Dublin, Ireland and Johannesburg, South Africa. Sign up for a free 4 week trial.
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands — New public website monitors and measures the “live health” of 20 popular social networking websites and their services including monitoring.com/blog/2010/03/17/facebook-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>facebook, monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Flickr, and others. Site gives users, developers and other interested parties a single place to see the availability and performance of their favorite social network, worldwide.

WatchMouse, a global industry leader in self-service website and application performance monitoring, announced the launch today of Social.DownorNot.com, a new public website dedicated to measuring the performance of the world’s leading social networking sites including monitoring.com/blog/2010/03/17/facebook-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>facebook, monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Flickr, and others. The new site was built using the Public Status Pages (PSP) technology of WatchMouse, and allows anyone to see the live health, performance and recent history of their favorite social networking sites and their services across various countries.

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We had been working on a new look for the Site24x7 web client over the past few weeks. Sometime last month, we had also given a sneak peek of the interface to our blog readers.  Now we’ve just rolled out this new interface to all our user accounts.

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So what’s new in the new interface?

Well, to start with, you might notice our brand new logo and the overall green theme which is in sync with our website.  But that’s not all. There are overall improvements to usability and navigation which will let you access your metrics quicker.

The ‘monitor details’ page has also undergone a transformation as you can see below.

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Apart from the UI change, this update packs in some enhancements such as

• A new Traceroute tool that helps you generate traceroute from all our monitoring locations to your server.
• API enhancement: The ability to set user agent, headers and authentication credentials while adding the monitor.
• New monitoring locations in New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Kansas and Munich (Germany).

You can take a look at the new interface and the other enhancements by logging into your Site24x7 account. Everything you loved in our earlier interface is intact, but presented in a fresher look and feel. We believe you will find it intuitive, user friendly and of course faster than before!  Look forward to your comments and valuable suggestions.

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