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Practical articles on growing ecommerce revenue, with more on the way.

10 min read TrackingReading the numbers

We checked 114 major Japanese ecommerce sites. 96% run GA4 — and 46% still carry a dead tag — What's really installed: tracking tags, consent banners, and load times

A real-browser survey of 114 major Japanese ecommerce sites. GA4/GTM 96%, leftover discontinued UA 46%, median 7 tags, consent banners 25%, median load 3.9 seconds. Sites with 40+ external domains load 3x slower.

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7 min read Reading the numbersGA4

The only 5 numbers an ecommerce store needs to check in GA4 each week — where they live, and what to decide after you look

Five numbers are enough for a weekly GA4 check. Three make revenue (sessions, conversion rate, average order value) and two show where people leak out along the way (cart-to-purchase rate, product-page add-to-cart rate). Here's where each one lives in GA4 and what to decide after you look.

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6 min read Reading the numbersGA4

You installed analytics. Now what? — 3 reasons GA4 does nothing for most ecommerce stores

You installed GA4 and never open it, or open it and don't know what to look at. There are three reasons ecommerce analytics ends up "doing nothing" — and a 15-minute weekly routine that fixes it before you buy another tool.

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4 min read Reading the numbersGA4

Why your order count and conversion count never match — a primer on how ecommerce analytics counts things

The order count in your store admin and the conversion count in your analytics tool don’t agree. Nothing is broken — they count on different “layers.” Here is how revenue, transactions, CVR and AOV fit together, so you stop misreading your ecommerce numbers.

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5 min read PrivacyTracking

What cookieless analytics actually changes — consent banners, ITP, and ad blockers

More analytics tools now call themselves “cookieless.” But what actually changes when you drop cookies, and what stays the same? Whether you still need a consent banner, how Safari’s ITP and ad blockers fit in, and how “users” get counted differently — laid out for ecommerce operators.

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2 min read Product

What NextRise Analytics does — turning GA4 data into your next move for revenue

GA4 is powerful, but many ecommerce teams tell us they “look at it, yet can’t tell what to do next to grow sales.” NextRise Analytics shows your numbers in a way that maps to ecommerce revenue, then hands you concrete improvement cards. Here is an overview of what it does.

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