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Research, product updates and practical guides from the Spectry team. How to read behavior, run honest experiments, and remove the friction between a visit and a conversion.
Core Web Vitals and User Experience: What the Numbers Don't Tell You
Core Web Vitals provide useful performance benchmarks, but passing all three thresholds doesn't guarantee a good user experience. This post explores the gap between performance scores and real user satisfaction, and how to bridge it with behavior data.
Conversion Optimization
Tips and strategies to improve website conversion rates
Form Analytics: Why Users Abandon Your Forms and How to Fix It
Form abandonment rates average 67% across industries, which means two-thirds of users who start filling out your form never submit it. Form analytics reveals exactly where and why they drop off, turning your biggest conversion leak into an optimization opportunity.
How to Reduce Bounce Rate: A Data-Driven Approach
A high bounce rate isn't always a problem, but when it is, guessing at fixes wastes time. This guide walks through a systematic, data-driven approach to diagnosing why visitors leave and what specific changes actually move the needle.
Why Your Checkout Page Is Losing 70% of Customers (And How to Fix It)
The average cart abandonment rate is 70.19%. That means for every 10 users who add a product to their cart, only 3 complete the purchase. Here's what's going wrong on your checkout page and exactly how to fix it.
User Experience
UX design, usability, and behavior analytics insights
Scroll Depth Analysis: Are Users Actually Reading Your Content?
Most content teams obsess over pageviews while ignoring the metric that actually matters: how far users scroll. Learn how scroll depth analysis reveals whether your audience is truly engaging with your content or bouncing after the first fold.
How to Run an Effective UX Audit Using Behavior Analytics
A UX audit doesn't have to be a months-long consultancy engagement. With behavior analytics data, heatmaps, session replays, funnels, and error logs, you can run a structured, evidence-based UX audit in a week.
Session Replays vs. Heatmaps: When to Use Which
Session replays and heatmaps both reveal user behavior, but they answer different questions. Understanding when to reach for each tool, and how to combine them, is key to efficient UX optimization.
Web Analytics
Analytics tools, metrics, and data-driven decision making
The ROI of Behavior Analytics: How to Calculate the Value of Understanding Your Users
Behavior analytics tools cost money. Stakeholders want to know if they're worth it. This guide provides concrete frameworks for calculating the return on investment from session replays, heatmaps, and user behavior data.
Building Custom Analytics Dashboards That Your Team Will Actually Use
Most analytics dashboards end up ignored within weeks of being built. The problem isn't the data. It's the design. Learn how to create dashboards that match how your team actually makes decisions, so the data gets used instead of collecting dust.
How AI Is Changing Web Analytics in 2026
AI in analytics has moved beyond buzzword territory into genuinely useful applications. From automated anomaly detection to natural language querying, here's how AI is practically transforming how teams understand user behavior in 2026.
Privacy & Compliance
GDPR, privacy-first analytics, and data protection
Web Security Monitoring: Why Your Analytics Tool Should Detect XSS Attacks
Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most common web vulnerabilities, and traditional security tools often miss attacks targeting client-side code. Learn why your analytics platform is uniquely positioned to catch XSS attacks that server-side monitoring can't see.
The Privacy-First Analytics Stack: Tools That Respect Your Users
You don't have to choose between understanding your users and respecting their privacy. Here's how to build a full analytics stack, from traffic metrics to behavior analysis, that's privacy-first without sacrificing the insights you need.

GDPR-Compliant Analytics: What You Actually Need to Know in 2026
GDPR enforcement has gotten stricter, and several major analytics tools have been declared non-compliant across the EU. Here's a practical guide to what GDPR actually requires from your analytics setup in 2026. Without the legal jargon.
A/B Testing
Experimentation, statistical testing, and optimization
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