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Print Better, Cleaner Reports from Omniture's SiteCatalyst

If you use the latest version of Omniture’s SiteCatalyst, you are probably aware of how poorly their nice pretty reports translate to PDF, Word, and Excel when you use the “save” tools available right there in the suite. Images get removed, text gets misaligned, and colors get skewed. Today I devised a nice, quick method for getting a printable report that looks identical to the report you see on your screen. The one...

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Omniture Event Serialization Character Limit

No matter how many Omniture Support people tell you that there is no limit on the number of characters you can use as your serial number when implementing Event Serialization, they are wrong! The limit is 20 characters. It took me 3 phone calls and a weeks worth of bad data to figure that out. It is no where to be found in their white papers either, so don’t bother looking there.

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Using SWFObject for Flash Version Tracking

At my company, we use Omniture SiteCatalyst for our web analytics/tracking. Unfortunately, Omniture does not give user’s Flash Version statistics in their standard reports like Google Analytics does. On the other hand, Omniture gives you the freedom to create custom reports that you can determine on your own using their provided JavaScript code. I am already using SWFObject to load the flash piece on our homepage to users with a...

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