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Google analytics Review
Google Analytics is a free tool offered by Google that allows users to track and analyze website traffic. It provides metrics on visitors, traffic sources, popular content, and how traffic changes over time. Users can gain insights into what drives traffic to their site and how to improve conversions. Google Analytics has a basic free version for sites with up to 5 million pageviews per month and premium versions for unlimited traffic.
Google analytics Review
- 1. Google Analytics By: LakoraByrd; Megha Rao; Kwame Hyeamang; Tian Yu April 11, 2013
- 2. Google: Who TheyAre • Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin • Located in Mountain View California • Named Google from a play on word googol • Introduced AdWords in 2000 • Google locations: 70 Offices in more than 40 countries
- 3. Google: Who TheyAre • The Perfect Search Engine • Provides a variety of tools to help businesses of all kinds succeed on and off the web • Build products that they hope will make the web better and therefore your experience on the web better • Cloud Computing • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6EGmMrcr8
- 4. Why & What Why Google Analytics? What does web analytics measure? • Google analytics is not just a tool for • Visitors measuring web traffic but it can also • Traffics be used as a tool for • Business and Market research • Content • Assess effectiveness of a website • Measure traditional prints or advertising campaigns • How traffic changes after the launch of a new advertising campaign
- 5. Google Analytics :Features
- 6. Google Analytics Dashboard &Reporting
- 7. How Google Analyticsworks • Sign up for Google Analytics • https://www.google.com/analytics/ • They return code to you • You paste the code just below the </body> tag • Put it on EVERY page • Edit>Find and Replace is easiest option • Put it in your template pages, so it will be automatically on every page • Go to the Analytics dashboard page to see daily metrics
- 8. What it does? •Daily, monthly, yearly tracking of web visits • Graphed over time • Which pages they go to, how long they stay • Bounce rate • Entrance pages • How they got there • Search engines and Search terms used • Location, operating system, monitor resolution • Over 80 reports available
- 9. Google Analytics :Implementation Consistof: Javascript code on each page of a website; Website owner embeds a piece of JS code to each webpage Executed in each visitor’s browser when the page is loaded Collect visitor’s browser and computer settings Log file on Google’s servers All visitors’ access behavior from JS A processing engine that populates report into owners’ account Google processes all data and generates reports Reports are not real-time
- 10. Google Analytics IndustryReviews and Comparisons • The variety, and complexity of web analytics tools presents a challenge for reviewers across specific metrics • Coherency in the sources and determinations of industry previews are a challenge. • Reviews from three independent non-profit sources indicated below • Most analytics tools have overlapping functionalities, therefore tools are categorized into groups of similar functionality.
- 11. Google Analytics IndustryReviews and Comparisons Tool Features Pricing Suggested Concentration Support •Easy installation---paste tracking code in Google your website. Social Media Analytics Help center Analytics •Designed for all users, novices and Basic version free except for Mobile Analytics User Forum seasoned users premium version Advertising Analytics Analytics Developer •Measures freq. of Traffic campaigns (not In a non real-time reporting real time) environment •Produces Goals, funnels, and multi- channel funnel management. •Can customize to web analytic variable •Smart Analytics Dashboard Free Powerful •Visitor demographics Report Real time Real Time Data Reports Customizable •Visitor Behavioral Reports like the Online support Yahoo Web demography, and click paths analysis. Environments where real- Users forum Analytics Customizes reports and field to suite user time and demographic Yahoo Web Analytics blog requirements considerations are crucial •Tracking PPC campaigns, and performs advanced PPC campaigns Management •Work Flow Management •Uses heat maps to indicate freq. of clicks Online support Crazy Egg •Data based on operating systems, top User forums referrers $9.99/month blogs •Click Events Reports
- 12. Google Analytics IndustryReviews and Comparisons Measure analytics on mobile sites Search and Social Advertising Online support and apps, compares multiple Conversion Optimization Documents Download Webtrends campaigns, and other statistics. Not Available Digital Analysis and Expert User Forums Heat maps, multi-channel online Services Support on twitter measurements, social and mobile measurements •Tracks long-term conversion Implementation support services lifecycles When real time insight into how IBM Cloud Services Coremetrics • Web Analytics Not Available consumers are interacting with 24/7 Product Support (IBM) •Enterprise Analytics online their brands online is crucial to •Social Media Analytics business strategy. Training & Certification •Mobile Solutions •Tracks repeat visitors and interactions Support for international customers Social Media Analytics •Powering the Adobe Online Marketing Digital Analytics Global support services Omniture Suite Media Optimization Adobe Cloud Services Support (Adobe) •Insight into organic and paid search Not Available online Web experience Management Training and certification •Real time data collection Enterprise •Custom Reports Workgroup •Digital Analytics Developers
- 13. Google Analytics IndustryReviews and Comparisons Check website below for : Top Ten Web Analytics Review Tools & comparison http://web-analytics-review.toptenreviews.com/
- 14. Google Analytics IndustryReviews and Comparisons Top Ten Web Analytics Review Tools & comparison
- 15. Google Analytics CustomerSuccess Stories • Shop.com developed a customized tracking strategy to provide easy access to reporting on their traffic sources and the millions of products in their marketplace. • Travelocity moved from centralized reporting to more democratic access with Google Analytics, and has become more agile in data- driven decision-making across the company. • Nissan Motor Company gains deep insights into users’ product preferences with Google Analytics e-commerce
- 16. Google Analytics CustomerSuccess Stories PUMA PUMA Kicks Up Order Rate 7% with Insights from Google Analytics and Viget PBS With Google Analytics solution, PBS unlocks data & insights to drive visitor traffic increases by 30% New Brunswick Tourism Testing & website optimization allows the New Brunswick Department of Culture, Tourism and Healthy Living to customize their site to audience profiles, increasing customer inquiries by 60%
- 17. Cost Analysis • GoogleAnalytics is free! • Any business or individual with a website can use Google Analytics FREE for any site with up to 5 million pageviews per month • For unlimited pageviews, simply create an AdWords account and link it to your Analytics account
- 18. Conclusion • Business andMarket research • Assess effectiveness of a website • Measure traditional prints or advertising campaigns • How traffic changes after the launch of a new advertising campaign • It’s free!
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Google facts: Founded 1998 Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Incorporation September 4, 1998 Initial public offering (NASDAQ) August 19, 2004 Headquarters 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google Inc. was born in 1998, when Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to that entity—which until then didn’t exist. In 2000, we introduced AdWords, a self-service program for creating online ad campaigns. Today our advertising solutions, which include display, mobile and video ads as well as the simple text ads we introduced more than a decade ago, help thousands of businesses grow and be successful.
- #4 What Google does for the user: Larry Page, Google CEO, describes Google as the “Perfect Search Engine” because it is an engine that understands exactly what you mean when you search for something so it can return exactly what you want. What Google does for businesses: For businesses they provide a variety of tools to help businesses of all kinds succeed on and off the web. These tools form a backbone of our own business, they've also enabled entrepreneurs and publishers around the word to grow. Their advertising programs, which range from simple text ads to rich media ads, help businesses find customers, and help publishers make money off of their content They also provide cloud computing What Google Does for the Web: build products that they hope will make the web better and in turn make the user experience better They want to make is simpler and faster for people to do what they want to online Committed to the open web; so they are involved in various projects to make it easier for developers to contribute to the online ecosystem and move the web forward\\