Security
The compromises are never sophisticated
No website is fully secure and anyone claiming otherwise has told you something useful about themselves. But the compromises that actually happen are dull, repetitive and largely preventable.
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Insights
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Conversion
You probably cannot A/B test yet
An underpowered test does not fail loudly. It returns a decisive-looking result that is noise, and teams then build on it for years.
Analytics
Why analytics never matches the back office
The question is not how to make the numbers match. It is how large the gap is, what causes it, and whether it is stable enough to make decisions against.
Advertising
Counting conversions is costing you money
If every conversion in the account is worth the same, bidding will buy whichever is cheapest. That is usually the one worth least. Assigning values is the fix.
Strategy
Custom build or CMS? A decision framework
The question is usually asked as a technology question. It is a total-cost-of-ownership question, and the answer depends on four things that have nothing to do with code.
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