Why should You Take Care of your Web Analytics?
In the previous blog post I listed all kind of free or pretty cheap to use Web Analytics Tools. Do you have it already installed and if so – do you have a close look at the data regularly? If not, you definitely should because it can help you to learn more about your customers behavior. It can tell you what kind of content your customer is looking for and also if he arrives for the right search queries on your site. If not, you might lose business. After all, a customer who comes to your site for a special query and is then disappointed because he cannot find the answer will leave quickly.
Here is what Analytics can track:
- How long a customer has been on your website
- How many pages they viewed per visit
- How they arrived at your website
- How long they stayed on your website
- What keywords brought them to your website
- How they were referred to your website. For example, social networking link
Analytics can also show you:
- Geographical information about where your users are coming from
- What is the user’s landing page?
- What page do they visit last before they leave the site (maybe you need to improve it?)
- Shopping cart abandons
- External clicks
- What path have the visitors taken before they leave your website?
All of this information can help you create a better customer experience and a better business and with both comes an increase in income. For example – when you notice that a majority of your traffic comes from the organic search then you should support that and add even more content. Or if you see that someone specific has linked to your website you can contact him and partner with him. As long as you know what kind of people do what on your site you can improve your site further. Sure it depends and it may take a bit time to get along with Analytics but it is time well spend. If you review your data regularly you can make well informed decisions.
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have an annalytic tools is very essential for every internet marketer and bloggers. I prefer to google’s analytic than the others beside free, it has many fitures and easy to understand the graphycs … 🙂
Thanks for this, Monja. Analytics is vital. How else can one track their progress, or success. Interestingly enough, it is the last thing to be considered when building a new site. I think the biggest problem for new website owners is probably the skills required to make good use of analytics tools. E.g. many of Google Analytics reports out of the box aren’t very useful. I’m currently reading Advanced Metrics for Google Analytics (Brian Clifton), in combination with Avinash Kaushik’s blog. Hopefully it will help me understand my visitor traffic.
having analytics is very important for sure. i use Google Analytics. I think I’ll go for Alexa as well after some time.
Nice post. Loved it. 🙂
Thank you, Kaustav 🙂