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The benefits of Analytics
It is important to measure what happens on your websiteand to measure these actions easily you can make use of analytics programmes like Google Analytics.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, March 10, 2010 /Online Marketing - SEO PR News/ -- The importance of having a well-designed and user-friendly website has been highlighted many times, yet once the website design and development processes are complete, that's really only the beginning! Maintaining a website requires a constant investment of time and effort and in our opinion a website should always be regarded as "a work in progress".
It is important to measure what happens on your website; for instance how visitors find it, where they enter the website and how they engage with your content and navigation. To measure these actions easily, web marketers make use of analytics programmes like Google Analytics.
One of the main benefits of web analytics is that it helps website owners gain a better understanding of what visitors want by analysing their actions on the website. Among other things, Analytics will show you:
- The source of your traffic; for instance direct traffic, traffic from search engines or referring websites
- The average amount of time visitors spent on the website
- Visitor loyalty (whether the majority of visits are new or returning)
- Your most popular content
- Geographic locations of your visitors with a map overlay that shows where in the world visitors are accessing your website
- You will also be able to see technical details such as which are the most commonly used Internet browsers, or the connection speed of your visitors
The above mentioned are just a few of the aspects of a website that can be measured. Analytics will highlight the areas on a website that can be improved (i.e. pages with a high exit rate) and areas that are performing well. As part of an optimisation strategy Analytics will point out which keywords are performing well. This information can be used to increase organic traffic to the website.
Since Analytics is focused on measuring user engagement, it is important to allocate goals to your website. Goals can include visitors filling in a contact form, downloading a brochure, signing up for a newsletter and so forth. The conversion rate indicated the percentage of visitors to a website that complete an assigned goal or task. As such, it's an important benchmark used to show a site's effectiveness.
Within Google Analytics there is a very useful and insightful benchmarking function (found under the Visitors tab) that allows website owners to compare their website to similar-sized websites in the same industry. Comparison criteria include visits, bounce rate, page views, average time on the website, number of pages visited and new visits.
Essentially, Analytics will help you improve your website on a continuous basis to provide your visitors with the best content and usability in order to increase conversions. Do you have questions about Analytics? Ask us, we offer one-on-one or team Analytics training on request.
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AlterSage is an Online Marketing company located in Cape Town CBD offering a full scale, holistic Strategic Marketing services strategy for your website.
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