Why ‘dark social’ and AI traffic makes it harder than ever to make sense of website analytics
An increasing challenge for those of us working in the world of website analytics is the impact on traffic from Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini. The traffic – or as I will come on to discuss, the lack of traffic – from such platforms is a relatively new phenomenon. However, it adds to other relatively recent challenges such as a rise in what is known as ‘direct’ traffic as well as the mysterious sounding source of traffic known as ‘dark social’.
How to walk 70 miles a month without leaving your office
How I ended up walking 70 miles a month…all while working at my desk. This post looks at the twin joys of walking pads and excessive data logging.
My yearly theme for 2024
It’s time to reveal my yearly theme for 2024 that’s inspired by the Cortex podcast. I’ll also reflect a little bit on my failures with last year’s theme.