Google Analytics Real-Time allows you to monitor activity as it happens on your site. It can tell you;

• How many people are on your site right now.
• Their geographic locations and the traffic sources that referred them.
• Which pages or events they’re interacting with on your site.

With Real-Time, you can immediately and continuously monitor the effects that new campaigns and site changes have on your traffic. Here are a few of the ways you might use Real-Time;

• Monitor whether new and changed content on your site is being viewed.
• Understand usage of your mobile app through event tracking.
• See whether a one-day promotion is driving traffic to your site and which pages these users are viewing.
• Monitor the immediate effects on traffic from a blog/social network post or tweet.
• Verify that the tracking code is working on your site.

Warning Real-Time can be mesmerising so beware!

If you need a hand setting up or understanding Google Analytics just shout.

Rob

Website sites will look different in different browsers. That’s because browsers understand code slightly differently. Its important to understand that one site will look different across browsers and even versions of browsers.

Browser testing no longer means attempting to make a website or app look exactly the same in all browsers of different capabilities or on devices with different size screens. It does mean ensuring that a person’s experience of a design should be appropriate to the capabilities of a browser or device.

Since browsers are constantly updating and new versions are being released on a regular basis, keeping track of any changes that might impact how sites work is important. It is essential to continue to test across a wide variety of browsers/devices in order to accommodate a broader audience.

Sites that were built a few years ago might be due for a refresh. Responsive design is really the base standard going forward. Your site should look GOOD in all browsers but that doesn’t mean it has to look exactly the same.