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Getting More Out of Analytics presented by Tobin Lehman
- 1. GETTING MORE OUT OF ANALYTICS Tobin Lehman, contact@tobinlehman.com Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 2. WHAT IS ANALYTICS? • Google’s Web Tracking Software • Google Acquired Urchin Software in 2005, made the product free under the name Analytics. • Let’s you understand what has happened to your site. Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 3. HOW IT WORKS • Uses Javascript to track page events • Simple tracking code is put on your pages • This requires javascript to be active on the browsers • 3% of Users in the US have Javascript disabled.* http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/08/eu-and-us-javascript-disabled-index.html Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 4. TERMINOLOGY Visits: Users coming to the site. One visit might have multiple page views. Unique Visits: Some users may come back multiple times. This measures how many unique users came. Page Views: The number of pages viewed on the site. Unique Page Views: The number of unique views by individual visitors. Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 5. TERMINOLOGY Bounce: Is the measure of a visitor arriving at a page on your site and immediately leaving. Their entrance page is the same as their exit page. This is the most confusing because google Allows you to look at this metric in some irrelevant ways with averages. Exits: The number of visitors who leave the site after this page. This could be a link to another site, or simply close the window. Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 6. UNDERSTANDING THE DATA Top Level Categories • Dashboard • Intelligence • Visitors • TrafficSources • Content • Goals Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 7. THE KEY METRICS The are 7 common metrics • Browsers / Devices that most companies need • Traffic Sources to know to make informed • Referrers decisions about your web traffic. Making these reports • Keyword Analytics apart of your monthly • Top Content review can truly shape • Exit / Bounce decisions. • Goals / Events Thursday, September 15, 2011
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- 9. VISITORS > BROWSERS> OPERATING SYSTEMS Thursday, September 15, 2011
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- 11. TRAFFIC SOURCES >ALL SOURCES Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 12. TRAFFIC SOURCES >REFERRING SITES Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 13. TRAFFIC SOURCES >KEYWORDS Thursday, September 15, 2011
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- 15. CONTENT > TOPCONTENT Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 16. CONTENT > TOPCONTENT BY TITLE Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 17. CONTENT > EXITAND BOUNCE Thursday, September 15, 2011
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- 19. ADVANCED CONFIGURATIONS • Goals and Funnels • Campaign Tracking • Custom Reports • Google Intelligence Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 20. GOALS AND FUNNELS Goals allow you to track a path of a user and gather information on the success or failure of that path. Home Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 21. GOALS AND FUNNELS Goals allow you to track a path of a user and gather information on the success or failure of that path. Home Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 22. GOALS AND FUNNELS Goals allow you to track a path of a user and gather information on the success or failure of that path. Home Product Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 23. GOALS AND FUNNELS Goals allow you to track a path of a user and gather information on the success or failure of that path. Home Product Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 24. GOALS AND FUNNELS Goals allow you to track a path of a user and gather information on the success or failure of that path. Order Home Product Form Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 25. GOALS AND FUNNELS Goals allow you to track a path of a user and gather information on the success or failure of that path. Order Home Product Form Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 26. GOALS AND FUNNELS Goals allow you to track a path of a user and gather information on the success or failure of that path. Order Thank Home Product Form You Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 27. GOAL DETAIL Thursday, September15, 2011
- 28. GOALS SETUP Setting up a Goal, you need to know the page that starts, contains, and ends the goal. The more detailed you are, the better. Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 29. EDIT PROFILE Thursday, September15, 2011
- 30. EDIT PROFILE >ADD GOAL Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 31. CAMPAIGN TRACKING Using Google’s campaign tags you can better differentiate your incoming traffic to understand and gather data about your visitors. Washingtonian: Print Ad : May 2011 Washingtonian: Online Ad : June 2011 Home Newsletter: Email Blast: August 2011 Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 32. CAMPAIGN TRACKING Using Google’s campaign tags you can better differentiate your incoming traffic to understand and gather data about your visitors. Washingtonian: Print Ad : May 2011 Washingtonian: Online Ad : June 2011 Home Newsletter: Email Blast: August 2011 Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 33. CAMPAIGN TRACKING Using Google’s campaign tags you can better differentiate your incoming traffic to understand and gather data about your visitors. Washingtonian: Print Ad : May 2011 Washingtonian: Online Ad : June 2011 Home Newsletter: Email Blast: August 2011 Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 34. CAMPAIGN TRACKING Using Google’s campaign tags you can better differentiate your incoming traffic to understand and gather data about your visitors. Washingtonian: Print Ad : May 2011 Washingtonian: Online Ad : June 2011 Home Newsletter: Email Blast: August 2011 Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 35. CAMPAIGN SETUP Using Google’s URL Builder, you can customize the links you use in your internal communications and the links you give to your outside vendors. http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578 Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 36. CAMPAIGN SETUP Using Google’s URL Builder, you can customize the links you use in your internal communications and the links you give to your outside vendors. http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578 Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 37. CAMPAIGN SETUP Using Google’s URL Builder, you can customize the links you use in your internal communications and the links you give to your outside vendors. http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578 Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 38. CAMPAIGN SETUP Results link that is used to track specific traffic to your site. http://www.google.com/? utm_source=AHCMC&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NEWS Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 39. TRAFFIC SOURCES >CAMPAIGNS Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 40. CUSTOM REPORTS Create reports that make sense to you, and have them sent to you automatically. Enjoy stats over your morning coffee... Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 41. CUSTOM REPORTS >CREATE Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 42. CUSTOM REPORTS >CREATE Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 43. CUSTOM REPORTS >CAMPAIGNS Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 44. CUSTOM REPORTS >CAMPAIGNS Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 45. EMAIL REPORT Thursday, September15, 2011
- 46. EMAIL REPORT Thursday, September15, 2011
- 47. INTELLIGENCE Create Alerts and let Google email you when something significant is happening to your site. Thursday, September 15, 2011
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- 52. IN REVIEW • Understand the basic terminology • Seven key metrics to evaluate your site • Use goals and funnels to value your traffic • Campaign tracking to segment traffic • Create custom reports and send them via email • Use Google Intelligence to keep us informed Thursday, September 15, 2011
- 53. THANK YOU If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me for more information. Tobin Lehman, Owner Tobin Lehman: Design + Interactive Contact@tobinlehman.com 240. 575.5887 Thursday, September 15, 2011