Tracking and testing for an online store
- of real orders now reported to Meta and Google Ads, up from 72%
- 95%
- ad cost per purchase, once the ads could learn from more sales
- −12%
- orders from one test of a new product page
- +6%
- The challenge
- The store's Meta and Google Ads accounts saw only about seven in ten real orders. Some purchases were counted twice and others not at all, so nobody knew which ads worked.
- What we did
- We rebuilt the tracking with visitor consent: one purchase event for Meta, Google Ads and Google Analytics, sent from the browser and from the server, and checked against the real orders in the store. Then we tested a new product page against the old one.
- The result
- Meta and Google Ads now see 95% of real orders, and the ad cost per purchase fell by 12% as the campaigns learned from them. The new product page brought 6% more orders and stayed.
Real orders the ad platforms see
- Before
- After95%
Ad cost per purchase
- Before
- After−12%