Firefox Extensions bolt on to your favourite web browser and can help you get more from your site.
Analytics
There are quite a few Firefox extensions out there that help us with our work, be it Web Analytics, PPC management or SEO. They fall into the two broad groups of Greasemonkey scripts and Firefox Add-ons. Rather than listing them all we want to focus on the ones that we use ourselves and find really useful:
- WASP
Great for debugging your web analytics implementation. - GA Notes
A clever way to add notes directly to individual Google Analytics pages that can be shared between an entire team. - Goal Copy
Great to copy goals and funnels from one profile to another (less urgent now that we have Advanced Segmentation, but still very convenient nonetheless). - Better GA
This is actually a bundle consisting of several useful scripts like Advanced Date Selection, Cleaner Profile Switching and Absolute Conversions that you could also install separately if you prefer (with Greasemonkey).
Greasemonkey scripts:
- Show all profiles
See all profiles in your account without having to use the drop-down navigation every time you look at it. - GAREenhancer
This is a script that contains several small fixes and improvements to various Google Analytics reports (including the one above).
SEO
- SEO for Firefox
- SearchStatus
Two useful plug-ins with a wide variety of search engine optimisation related functions.
PPC
- Google Global
Allows you to view organic and paid Google search results as they appear in different locations around the world.
General
- Web Developer
- Firebug
Awesome helpers for analysing and debugging web pages. - HttpFox
See the headers your browser is exchanging with a web server. - JSView
Facilitates looking at external files embedded in a web page. - iMacros for Firefox
Let's you record or write macros to automate your browser. If you've ever had to repeatedly change the daily scheduling options across 60 campaigns via the Google AdWords web interface, you know why this seriously amazing.
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