[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
Introduction to Google Analytics
1.
2. SO YOU ARE
MANAGING A WEB
PRESENCE…
how people are getting to your
site.
what content is performing
according to your
expectations.
what do you need?
3. Ingredients
1. Google analytics
account
2. Website
3. Java script code
The only thing you have to do is:
implement the java script code
from your GA account into your
site (above the <head> tag).
4. WHAT CAN YOU
MEASURE?
1. Visitors – where they come
from (geographically), what
language they speak,
frequency of visits, what
computers and browsers
they use.
2. Traffic sources – the way
people reach your site
(keywords and sites that
link to yours).
3. Content – it gives you
insights about which page in
site was the most popular
and the users’ path of
reaching it.
4. Goals for objectives – tracks
the downloads, registrations
or subscriptions made on
site.
5. E-commerce – tracks the
evolution of a purchase
made in a online shopping
site.
6. 1. Acquisition
Measures: the number of
visitors that reach your
site and where they are
coming from.
how many
have been to your site
before (loyalty)
Visits
7. 2. Engagement
Measures:
- pages per visit – average
numbers of pages viewed
- average time on site –
how much does a visitor
stays on site
- bounce rate – single
page visits on site and
how many visitors left
from the main page
towards other pages in
site.
Quality of site traffic
8. Objective
• Get visits to a specific page
• Measure engagement
• Measure no. of page visitors
in a session
• Track specific actions
(downloading, viewing a
video)
Goal types
• URL destination
• Time on site
• Pages per visit
• Events
3. Outcome (Goals area)
Define your strategy objective:
- drive visitors to make online purchase
- get them to view a specific content
- more newsletter signups
Keep track on your
marketing campaign
9. Objective
• Get visits to a specific
page
• Measure engagement
• Measure no. of page
visitors in a session
• Track specific actions
(downloading, viewing a
video)
Goal types
• URL destination
• Time on site
• Pages per visit
• Events
10. For a better website:
Make your site engaging so
that visitors will continue
clicking into it.
Make your site user-
friendly.
Simple construction for
visitors to navigate on site.
Build an interactive
content.
Match the content of a text
with keywords in it’s title.
Make a creative website
design.
12. Keywords Clouds
• you can visualize easily what
words are the most compatible
with your content based on
bounce rates, pages per visit and
visits.
13. Real-time data
• you can view the activity
on site as it happens, with
no minutes/hours delays,
based on: active pages, top
referrals, keywords or
geographic location.
14. Personalized dashboard
• you can view the activity on site as it happens, with no
minutes/hours delays, based on: active pages, top referrals,
keywords or geographic location.
15. Webmaster tools
Shows you which Google property
(web, image, mobile) sources
generated site traffic and
measures impressions and number
of clicks, as well.
it is usually used to evaluate
search trends
16. Social Engagement
Helps you track the way
visitors interact with your site
which social source was
used and what action was
performed (ex. tweet, like,
share)
17. Multi-channel
Funnels
• Helps you see how many
visitors reached your site
through a paid search
ad, a link in social
networks or from an
email link.
• You can find out what
channel was the most
successful for conversion
which marketing
activities have the
highest ROI
19. So….
Why should you use Google Analytics?
It is free
It is complex
It gives you many insights for your site and for
your marketing strategy
It is easy to use
