I need to set up an experiment in Google Analytics…which as it turns out is super-easy. (Much better than the old version!) Except I need to have a goal set up to be able to launch the experiment. And for this particular project, I need to have automatic event tracking set up. Which I just started testing yesterday. So I have to wait for people to visit the pages with the test and either download files or visit external sites. Sigh.

I guess if I get to the middle of next week and it’s pretty clear that the test isn’t working, I can set up the tracking manually on the specific links that I need tracked. Which isn’t a great option, but whatever works?

On the other hand, it’s not entirely ready to launch for other, unrelated, reasons. So I can be patient.

(FWIW: Yak Shaving. I don’t know why I was thinking that post was by Tim Bray, when it’s actually by Seth Godin. Maybe I got to it from Tim Bray, waaaaay back in 2005?)