Google analytics Explained

 

As i continue my transition from flash to html, SEO/Web Stats has become a topic of increasing interest, and one that ha the rare ability to at times dumbfound me. Installing Google Analytics on our site, has for the most part just been used to count our visitors and look at our traffic, so over the past week i thought I’d find out what some of the other lovely little percentages and numbers mean….

Now i know what my anylitics are trying to say, thanks acuity!

- I find the Goal tab to be much more valuable than a lot of the stats you mentioned in the article. As a designer, you should use this tool to optimize your important pages.

- If you're going to buy ads, the map overlay tool is excellent to identify regions to target.

- The Click Patterns > Site Overlay is awesome. You get to know what works and what doesn't on your pages. I found out that one of the links I thought were the most important had a click ratio of 0.1%; it had to be moved.

- and so on. Analytics is a very valuable tool with a lot of potential.

Google analytics Explained

 

As i continue my transition from flash to html, SEO/Web Stats has become a topic of increasing interest, and one that ha the rare ability to at times dumbfound me. Installing Google Analytics on our site, has for the most part just been used to count our visitors and look at our traffic, so over the past week i thought I’d find out what some of the other lovely little percentages and numbers mean….

 

 

Nice work, thanks

fair points you made Quimp.. added to the post!

Google analytics Explained

 

As i continue my transition from flash to html, SEO/Web Stats has become a topic of increasing interest, and one that ha the rare ability to at times dumbfound me. Installing Google Analytics on our site, has for the most part just been used to count our visitors and look at our traffic, so over the past week i thought I’d find out what some of the other lovely little percentages and numbers mean….

 

 

Interesting article Acuity!

 

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Nice article

 

As an aside, people might be interested in trying http://www.piwik.org.

 

It's almost identical to GA, but hosted on your own server. Plus it's free