See anyone's Analytics account. View their sales, and how they get them, all in real-time. See which growth hacks work, and which flop. See which products and features get used and which ones don't.
My big question is do your users that you're getting all this data from know that you are using their data?
This is what Alexa is doing, but they getting their data through their toolbar that has millions of users. It seems like getting accurate information would require you to either:
1) Have access to users data in the millions or have access to google analytics data (which no one has except the user themselves) or
2) unethical practices to get user data
It's also possible these numbers are not as accurate as you claim.
@kraftykyle We collect our data in a way that's very similar to Alexa or SimilarWeb. So, we didn't change that paradigm. I'd like to think say our data is more diverse and our methods are more accurate - but, our real innovation is pushing this data into a standard analytics platform (GA). In retrospect, it seems super obvious. But, it's been possible for 20 years - I still have no idea why nobody did it before us.
But, of course, when I had the idea, I knew we *had* to do it. And, yeah - it keeps surprising me every day how absurdly powerful it is. It's no joke.
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Hi. This looks very interesting and potentially worth a try. But the fact that you don't have mobile data is very significant, don't you think? That's like 80-90% of traffic now for most sites.
"One important weakness in our data is that we don't have mobile data. For websites that see more mobile-based traffic, our estimates will be farther from the mark than they would be for other websites. The behavior we show will be a closer match to what desktop visitors do. As long as you interpret the data with that in mind, you can still gain valuable insights into what is happening on the page."
@thebyliner1 Yeah. It's significant. Mobile traffic is something we're working on sourcing. But, I certainly think that as-is Nacho creates a ton of value and there's no way I'd hold up the launch. You really gotta get in there and see what's possible. Lack of mobile data isn't something we just pave over - it's just something you have to account for in your analysis. When I had the idea for this thing, there's no way I could imagine being able to build something like this:
https://www.nachoanalytics.com/b...
@angela_jiang The sales attributions come from goals and the goals are typically set up via a receipt url - just like you'd do with your own GA account. We try to automatically figure those out and set them up for you when we create the account, but we're definitely not perfect. You should double check what we do. So, it's not fuzzy math. With Walmart, for example, the amount paid is literally in the receipt page url. With Amazon, the product sku is in the receipt page url.
One recommendation I'd make is that even if you don't know *exactly* what a goal is worth, assign a an estimated value of some amount anyway. Because doing so gives you some additional metrics in GA like page value, etc.
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Sounds exciting, BUT they steal your money when you enter a Free trial.
Was supposed to be billed "0$" but they just withdrawed 5USD instead of 0.
Smells fishy, and the money was registrered to their daughter company (spyfu.com).
Will remove this comment IF the return my money.
Otherwise I suggest the other hunters to NOT try their service if you don't want to give away money. @zac_t_harris@nacho_analytics
Hey @j_b1
That's an authorization charge. We don't collect those funds, but we do verify that the card is valid with this authorization charge. The auth charge is voided after the trial is over. Correct, we do bill from our parent company, SpyFu.
We're not out to steal anyones money. Did you reach out to support? You can reach them via live chat and they will void the auth charge.
If not, can you shoot me your e-mail address? You can reach me at zac@spyfu.com
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Does the lack of mobile data get accounted for in the data that we see? For example, let's say there's 1000 sessions, 500 mobile, 500 desktop (in reality). Will the data be closer to 1000 sessions (kind of making up for mobile), or closer to 500 (not accounting for mobile at all)?
@desmondzik We don't. The reason is that mobile and desktop behavior might be subtly different on some types of sites and extremely different on other sites. I think it's important for you as the user to understand those differences and interpret the data accordingly. We didn't want to muddy the water by making those assumptions for you. The data you see is from live desktop users - and that’s exactly how they appear when you see them.
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Posting here since I can't make much sense out of your emails and they're from noreply addresses. Your first email asked "Have you lost your credit card?". I rechecked my wallet. All my credit cards are intact. But thanks for asking. Just so you know, I bailed out of signing up because I wasn't comfortable handing over my credit card info to someone I'd known about only a few minutes previously. Then I got another email offering free credit with 2 days validity. Memory serves, the plan I was trying to sign up for was free for 7 days. Why would I need free credit for 2 days in that case?
Hey 👋 @lachlankirkwood
Thanks for checking us out!
Unfortunately, I don't work on the data team, but @mike_roberts_mrspy_ would be able to answer your question!
@lachlankirkwood I'm not sure I fully understand the question. I think it's kind of yes and no. Yes, because I'd love to have more and more panelists - particularly mobile. But, no - because the things I can see and understand given our current panel size and diversity is game changing (and I mean that not in a self promotional way - but as a dude who loves the f out of tasty data ;)
Hey 👋 @felixkaiser
Honestly, I had the same reaction when @mike_roberts_mrspy_ came up with the idea for Nacho.
When we launched our beta, I was blown away. The biggest learning curve is knowing what to look for in GA. There's so much that you can do with this data, it's crazy.
I mainly look at e-commerce sites (checking out their conversions, etc.) or SaaS sites that I find on PH or Indie Hackers.
I am in the process of launching a single product e-com store based on the data that I've used in Nacho. I'll write a case study after a few months of being live.
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@felixkaiser@mike_roberts_mrspy_@zac_t_harris Wait, how are you looking up the e-commerce sites' conversions? I thought their GA setup would not be something that can be established using panelists. Do you just set up your own conversions to mimic theirs in a way?
@felixkaiser@zac_t_harris@desmondzik Yes. We make our best guess by looking at where conversion pixels fire and other signals. When we automatically configure the GA account for you, we set all that stuff up - Goals, Site search, etc. Of course, you should double check our work, and you can always change the settings - just like you would if it was the GA account for your own site.
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