Waffed
Waffed

About Waffed Analytics

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Jonathan Harrington

Web Analytics & Performance Marketing Consultant

📍 Denver, Colorado

Waffed Analytics is my corner of the internet dedicated to making web analytics less confusing and more practical.

“Analytics should serve decisions, not the other way around.”

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What this is

A hobby project from an analytics nerd who enjoys sorting out chaos in numbers. Simple, honest, step-by-step explanations.

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What this isn’t

Not an agency. Not an online school. Not a “personal brand” with courses to funnel you into at the end of every article.

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My Story

For over a decade, I’ve helped ecommerce stores, SaaS products, local businesses, and content projects answer simple but painful questions:

→ Which traffic actually brings money?

→ Why do conversions drop when traffic goes up?

→ Are we scaling a working channel — or just scaling waste?

I started in a small digital agency, living inside Google Ads and Facebook Ads dashboards. Pretty quickly I realized the main problem wasn’t “bad campaigns” — it was bad measurement. Broken tracking, vanity metrics, and dashboards that look impressive but don’t help anyone decide anything.

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Experience & Credentials

10+
Years in Analytics
Consulting

100+
Projects Across
4 Industries

3
Industry
Certifications

Certifications

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Google Analytics Certified

Google — GA4 measurement, event tracking, reporting

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Google Ads Certified

Google — Search, Display, and Performance campaigns

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HubSpot Inbound Marketing Certified

HubSpot Academy — Inbound strategy and lifecycle marketing

Tools Expertise

GA4
Google Tag Manager
Looker Studio
BigQuery
Plausible
Matomo
Google Ads
Meta Ads

Industries Served

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E-commerce & DTC brands
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SaaS & software products
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B2B lead generation
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Media & publishing

Speaking & Community

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Conference Talks

Delivered sessions on privacy-first analytics and GA4 migration at regional marketing and ecommerce events.

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Community Contributions

Active in analytics communities — answering questions on tracking setups, GTM configurations, and making sense of messy data.

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What You’ll Find Here

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Analytics Basics

Events, goals, funnels, UTM tags, attribution — explained in plain language.

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Data-Driven Marketing

Connect campaigns to actual business outcomes, not just clicks.

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Tools & Setup

GA4, Tag Manager, privacy-friendly alternatives — how to choose and use them.

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Conversion Insights

Find funnel leaks and turn data into realistic improvement ideas.

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Who This Is For

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Founders & Solo Makers

Trying to understand if your traffic is “good” or just noise.

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Marketers

Looking for clear, down-to-earth explanations of analytics.

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Developers

Asked to “add some tracking” and want to know what and why.

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Curious Learners

Anyone who wants to feel more confident around data.

How I Approach Content

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No screenshots for the sake of screenshots

If I show an interface, it’s because you’ll actually need to click there.

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No “secret hacks”

Most of analytics is careful thinking, a bit of patience, and clear structure.

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Realistic advice only

I assume you have limited time, limited energy, and too many tabs open.

Let’s Connect

Have a question, topic suggestion, or a “this report is driving me crazy” situation? I’d be happy to hear from you.


📬 [email protected]