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Common technical hiccups in your product analytics that are easy to spot

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The good news is that many technical quirks tend to follow certain patterns that can be easily spotted—even by non-engineers. Here are four technical hiccups associated with corrupt event tracking data, how to spot them, and what to do about them. So why could that happen from a technical standpoint? Event stuttering.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

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UX design, branding, feature-set, nuanced differences in user perspectives, and a million other variables can impact (with varying levels of influence) whether our products get used or ignored. The ultimate outcome should be reality-aligned insights. Understand the role of data with nuance. But you’d be wrong.

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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

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So it’s tempting to think the additional add-on of measuring user events in your code (i.e., implementing product analytics) is something that can wait until your team is bigger, until you have more users, or until you have more money. You know where users clicked and didn’t click, when they clicked, and in what order.

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Mobile app event tracking: Telling the story of how your app works (or doesn’t work)

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When a user uses an app, they do stuff. And each of these kinds of events can be “meaningful” based on how they represent our users’ behaviors and expectations as they navigate the app experience. But events aren’t just limited to direct actions taken by users. Events tell stories about your users (and your app).

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User friction can sink your app. Here’s what it is and how to avoid it.

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It only takes a small amount of user friction to cause an app to hemorrhage users. And even apps that manage to remain sticky despite user friction will see their users struggle to find the intended value in all its features. Simply put: User friction can single-handedly sink an app’s usefulness. Here’s how.

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Always implement analytics as part of feature development. Here’s why.

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In order to effectively test whether a feature has been implemented correctly, a QA engineer needs to understand the feature inside and out. They need to be actively aware of all of the requirements, why those requirements exist, and the nuanced value the feature intends to deliver to the user. Engineers are technical.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

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As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date. Their interest lies exclusively in technical mastery. You can find many more examples here.