Google Analytics for a website
May 21, 2008Google Analytics is a free service offered by google that gives visitors statistics for any website. It allows us to track the potency of our online marketing activities and helps us to optimize the substance and layout of the website. It includes transition goals, funnel route analysis, Google Ad Words consolidation and e-commerce tracking. The main goal of Google Analytics is to authorize us with the complete related information to maximize our marketing ROI and increase website conversions.
What we can know with the help of Google Analytics
Google Analytics offers the most value when configured properly to meet specific needs. Once Google Analytics is setup and reporting, the next logical step is
- To analyze the data
- We can define and track conversions, or goals
- We can track the unique visitors of the site
- We can track the page views, visits
- By using this tool, marketers can determine which ads are performing, and which are not, as well as find unexpected sources of quality visitors
- All users can officially add up to 50 site profiles. Each profile generally corresponds to one website
- Google Analytics also provides integration with Google Adwords
- Users can see ad group and keyword performance as part of their reports
- It also provides some more advanced features, including visitor segmentation and custom fields
The information we can track from Google Analytics for a website
As we have discussed that with the google analytics we can track the website’s statistics and those statistics include the following
Hit: The total number of visitors or page views provides a more realistic and accurate assessment of popularity. The number of hits received by a website is frequently cited to emphasize its popularity, but this number is extremely misleading and dramatically over-estimates popularity.
Page View: A single page view may generate multiple hits as all the resources required to view the page are also requested from the web server.
Visit: A visit is expected to contain multiple hits and page views.
First Visit: A visit from a visitor who has not made any previous visits.
Visitor: The uniquely identified client generating requests or page views within a defined time period either it could be a day, week or month.
Unique Visitor: A Unique Visitor counts once within the timescale.
Unique User: A visitor can make multiple visits. The Unique User is now the only mandatory metric.
Repeat Visitor: Visitor who had made at least one previous visit to the website. The period between the last and current visit is called visitor recency and is measured in days.
New Visitor: A visitor that has not made any previous visits.
Singletons: Only a single page in a website is viewed by number of visits is said to be called as a singletons.
Bounce Rate or % Exit: The percentage of visits where the visitor enters and exits at the same page without visiting any other pages on the site in between.
Visibility time: The time a single page is viewed.