About
I'm Matt Clarke and TechPad is my blog covering web analytics implementation.

I originally trained in freshwater biology, fish taxonomy and bioinformatics and spent a decade working at Bauer Media where I edited specialist consumer and business magazines about aquarium fish and the pet industry.
I'd always been a keen user of web analytics tools and an advocate of their benefits to editors, and my interest in the subject led to me moving from publishing to retailing so I could work with analytics full time.
I now work as an e-commerce manager in Manchester, where I manage a team of developers and content editors and use Google Analytics to help grow the business.
I'm also currently on the Econsultancy MSc in Internet Retailing at Manchester Metropolitan University and write occasionally on web analytics for Econsultancy.



Recent comments
Hi Matt, thanks for sharing the slides, I learnt a lot from your universal analytics talk. I'm lo...
annatlewis: 14:14 PM Feb 19th, 2013
Hi Matt I am new to this great module and I am trying to find my way through. I really need s...
kaidot: 14:14 PM Oct 25th, 2012
Hi Fabian, The information on the visitor's computer sent are the user agent (via the setUserAg...
techpad: 17:17 PM Oct 5th, 2012
When you use this solution is there any information stored in Google Analytics concerning informa...
fabianvdb: 9:09 AM Oct 5th, 2012
Thanks, Matt. Great post. However, I was stuck at "What we have now is a script (ga.php) that ...
kionkid: 8:08 AM Aug 7th, 2012