The Ecomm Analyst

Growing stores, one honest take at a time.

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  • Best ad tracking tools for e-commerce

    Ad tracking is the plumbing under everything else. Before you can talk attribution, ROAS, or ROI, something has to reliably capture that a click on a specific ad turned into…


  • Best e-commerce ROI tracking tools

    ROAS tells you revenue per ad dollar. ROI tells you whether you actually made money, which is a different and harder question. A campaign can run a 3x ROAS and…


  • Best ROAS tracking tools

    The ROAS number inside Meta Ads Manager is the one your media buyer wants to believe and the one you should trust the least. Each platform marks its own homework,…


  • Best Shopify attribution tools

    Shopify’s built-in analytics tell you what sold. They’re much quieter on what made it sell. The moment you’re buying traffic across Meta, Google, and TikTok, you need something that connects…


  • Best e-commerce attribution tools

    Every ad platform takes credit for the same sale. Meta says it drove the purchase, Google says it did, and TikTok is in there too claiming a cut. Add the…


  • BeProfit alternatives for Shopify profit tracking

    BeProfit is a Shopify profit and analytics app. It pulls in ad spend, COGS, shipping, transaction fees, and refunds, then shows net profit per order, per product, and per ad…


  • Elevar alternatives for server-side tracking

    Elevar is one of the more established server-side tracking products in the Shopify ecosystem. The job is to manage your data layer, push clean conversion events to Meta, Google, TikTok,…


  • Conversific alternatives for Shopify analytics

    Conversific is a Shopify analytics app focused on benchmarking, customer reports, and conversion rate optimization. The differentiator is the benchmark layer. You can see how your store conversion rate, AOV,…


  • Fueled alternatives for server-side tracking

    Fueled is a server-side tracking and Conversions API tool built for Shopify. The pitch is straightforward. Pixel-based tracking has been losing data for years, between iOS 14, Safari ITP, and…


  • Recast alternatives for marketing mix modeling

    Recast built its reputation on doing media mix modeling well. The methodology is Bayesian, time-series-based, and calibrated against incrementality tests when brands can provide them. For the right kind of…


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About

Six years in e-commerce. Three Shopify stores across different niches, one scaled past seven figures. I’ve tested hundreds of ad creatives, obsessed over email flows, and learned more from my failures than my wins.

Now I focus on conversion optimization, retention marketing, and the analytics behind it all. This blog is where I share what actually works, backed by real numbers. No fluff, no guru energy.