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Monday, April 9, 2012

Web Analytics

Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. There are two categories of web analytics; off-site and on-site web analytics. Off-site web analytics refers to web measurement and analysis regardless of whether you own or maintain a website. It includes the measurement of a website's potential audience (opportunity), share of voice (visibility), and buzz (comments) that is happening on the Internet as a whole.

On-site web analytics measure a visitor's journey once on your website. This includes its drivers and conversions; for example, which landing pages encourage people to make a purchase. On-site web analytics measures the performance of your website in a commercial context. This data is typically compared against key performance indicators for performance, and used to improve a web site or marketing campaign's audience response.

What is web analytics?
Web analytics is defined as the process of analyzing the behavior of visitors to a website.

Benefits of Web Analytics Tool
  • Monitor the return of investment for campaigns, website development, and maintenance investment.
  • Determine the effective promotional tools that gives trafffic to a website.
  • Be able to know the traffic sources or the referring websites of the website.
  • Identify which features of the website needs improvement or deletion.
  • Be able to know the demographics of the visitors.
  • The most viewed web page from the website.
  • From the web analytics report, be able to evaluate and see the strengths and weaknesses of the website.
  • Correct and intensify the aspects of the website which causes its weaknesses.

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