Web analytics is the study of online behaviour of visitors.
To know how successful is a website,
web analytics tools are highly important. Only when you understand 'how your visitors interact with your website you can measure your online business performance.
For every online business there should be some actions they expect visitors to take to sustain and excellence. These actions could be mere clicks to the website, filling in online forms or purchasing products.
There are two types of
web analytics tools available in the market. They are
log file analysis softwares and
page tagging tools. Irrespective of which type of
web analytics tools you choose, you can measure your websites performance using the following e-metrics.
E-Metrics:1) Visits2) Unique visits3) Pages/Visit4) Avg. time on site5) Bounce rate6) Exit rate7) Country, city8) Keywords9) Sources10) Navigation path11) Entrance pathHere are few steps to measure your websites performance:1) Track all the pages that Visitors tread while moving towards the penultimate conversion pages.2)Identify your checkout conversion page and observe the navigational path taken by your customers.Compare the actual conversions naviflow with the above stated step.Through this we can ascertain the successful path that lead to conversions. 3)Now you would be having the figures of "how many visitors moved to the penultimate conversion page and how many got converted into customers.Segregate the visitors moved to just the penultimate sales conversion process and exited as
group I. Segregate the visitors who completed the conversion process as
group II.Analyze group I to identify the stumbling blocks. Pick up each every page pursued by the visitors. Start your analysis using the following KPIs viz. bounce rate, exit rate, keywords, sources, navigational path, entrance path etc.