This document provides an overview of Google Analytics and how it can be used to understand website traffic and visitor behavior. It discusses tracking key metrics like sessions, users, pageviews, bounce rate, and goals. It also explains how to segment data and analyze acquisition sources, site content, and multi-channel funnels. The document emphasizes that analytics is most useful when the data is acted on to continually improve the user experience and drive conversions.
2. What we Learn
• Why Analytics
• Who are the people who visit your website?
• what brought visitor to your website?
• what they do once they got on the website?
• did they do what you wanted them to do?
4. • How do people find me online?
• Who are they?
• Where do they come from?
• Do they like me?
• Are they a valuable customer?
• How do I stack up against the competition?
• How can I plan for the future?
Data can answer…
6. Web Analytics:Definition
• Analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from
your website
• Drive continual improvement of the online
experience that your customers and potential
customer have
• Converts your Traffic to Sales
7. Web Analytics:Definition
• Analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from
your website
• Drive continual improvement of the online
experience tat your customers and potential
customer have
• Converts your Traffic to Sales
DATA
ACTION
RESULT
8. Why you need Analytics
Web Analytics is the foundation
for running a successful startup.
with out it, you are flying blind.
9. Executives can learn:
• Which marketing initiatives are most effective
• Which customer and customer segments are most valuable
Marketers can learn:
• Where users come from and what do they do on the site
• How can the website convert more users into customers
• Which keywords resonate with prospects and lead to conversions
• Which online ad or creative is the most effective
Content Creators can learn:
• Where people leave the site
• Which pages retain users the longest
Who can use Analytics?
10. Why Google Analytics
• Free to use
• Easy to setup
• Easy to read reports
• Real-time reports
• Custom reports
11. Limits of Google Analytics
GA is not perfect: there are some errors.
But while the numbers aren’t exact,
the data is still very useful.
14. Think of a goal as specific and measurable
actions that you want your visitors to
complete before they leave your website
• Visitors downloading a document
• Visitors completing a contact form
• Visitors completing a purchase
• Visitors who spend more than 5 min
• “Negative goals”: #of zero search results
33. How to enable Demographics
insert the bold green line into your existing tracking
code between the 'create' and 'send' commands
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX-XX', 'example.com');
ga('require', 'displayfeatures');
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
67. Better results and more services in In-page Analytics
with adding this code to your tracking code
Add the tag to your tracking code, after you create a tracking object, as
illustrated by the red text in the example below:
ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-X');
ga('require', 'linkid', 'linkid.js');
ga('send', 'pageview');
68. In-page Analytics
Even better with google chrome extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-analytics-by-
google/fnbdnhhicmebfgdgglcdacdapkcihcoh
69. Did they do what you
wanted them to do?
Conversions
78. Multi-Channel: Assisted Conversions
Assisted / Last Click or Direct Conversions
=0 this channel functioned primarily as final conversion
=1 equally assist and final
> 1 the greater the value, the greater the assist role
90. Creating a Data Driven Culture
• Give access to data
• A/B test whenever possible
• Measure all function of the business
• Reward employees who use data to advance your
business