A practical guide to choosing your Analytics expert

The skills and qualities to look for in successful support

Analytics expert at a glance

  • His role: Configuring GA4, creating dashboards and providing decision support
  • Tasks: Tagging plan, reporting, data interpretation
  • Skills : Mastery of tools, knowledge of KPIpedagogy
  • Added value : Turning figures into actionable recommendations

The Analytics expert works on your Google Analytics account to create relevant dashboards and help with strategic decision-making. It's an important role that requires specific skills and an interest in numbers.

The missions of the Analytics expert

  1. Tagging plan : Defining what needs to be measured on your site to answer your business questions
  2. Reporting : Creating easy-to-read dashboards based on collected data
  3. Interpretation : Give an expert opinion on the normality of results and suggest actions to be taken

Skills required

Technical skills

  • Proficiency in GA4, Matomo, Adobe Analytics
  • Channel knowledge (SEO, SEA, SMO)
  • Basic HTML, CSS, Python
  • Synthesis skills

Human qualities

  • Pedagogy and popularization
  • Clear communication
  • Working with teams
  • Industry experience

Industry experience

A lot of data is sector-specific. A conversion rate varies enormously between a general B2C site and a company selling machine tools. The expert's sector-specific experience enables him to make relevant recommendations.

Advice : The Analytics expert's most valuable tool is his ability to interpret the data. A high or low figure should not be interpreted in the same way without context.

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