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Using analytics to improve user experience on your website
1. Using Analytics to improve user
experience on your website
By Rune Andersen
Web Analytics Consultant
21-10-2013
@SiteimproveUK #Siteimprove13
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2. How many use analytics ?
How many spend more than 20
hours a week on analytics ?
How many have never used
analytics ?
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What is web analytics
Web analytics is:
Collection
Measurement
Analysis
Reporting
…of visitor data, in order to:
understand users
optimise their experience
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What are the challenges
Information overload
We have access to all the data we can think of
Organisational expectations
The organisation expect us to contribute insight but ask for "monkeyreporting“.
Not enough time
But we do not have time to process the data - neither practical nor mentally
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What is your organisation asking about?
“Is the total bounce rate higher than 45%?”
“How many visits last month?”
“What are the 10 most visited pages?”
“Do we have traffic from other country than UK?”
“Please fill this 34 slide PowerPoint with visit data”
“Why ?”
“Because we do that every month”
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What you should ask them
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What they should have asked about
“What is the self service abandonment rate”
“Have we tested different newsletter
signup forms, and which is better?”
“Should we make other language versions of
our website”
“Please define 5 concrete actions you think can improve our website”
“When ?”
“When you can base them on data, and not hunches”
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Questions to ask on the way to insight
Why do we have a website
Define a purpose and KPI’s for the website
And use web analytics to examine whether this is met
Who uses the website
Identify your target groups – and focus on them
And use web analytics to see if they are present
How do they use the website?
Set KPIs and goals for specific actions
And use web analytics to determine whether these are achieved
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Purpose and KPIs
Purpose
”You should know that”
Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Self-service submission
Newsletter signup
Online purchase conversions
Contact forms submit
Campaign conversions
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Time used on analytics
Purpose
KPIs
The perfect
world
Metrics
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Time used on analytics
Purpose
KPIs
The perfect
Reality
world
Metrics
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The analyst's mission:
Work towards insight
To focus on the data and metrics that will deliver insight
Align the insight with the purpose and KPI’s of the site
Make the KPI’s measurable, realistic and communicated internally
Work for a data-driven decision organisation
Analytics will help you to make decisions on a data-based foundation.
Changes supported by decisions taken on the basis of data will increase the
chance that it is the correct decision.
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What are “most used content” indicators
Page views
Reliable metric
Can be misleading (Transport pages, front page, content without pageload etc.)
Visits
Reliable metric
Depends on type of site/page
Entry/Exit pages
Behaviour metrics
Combine with filters/Segments
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What are “most used content” indicators
Event tracking
Custom metric
Implemented correctly, it can be the key to insight
Internal Search
Behaviour
A direct view into the visitors purpose with visiting the website
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20. Identifying most used content
Most …and least used.
Stockport Council have 31,798 pages
tracked last month
% of % sum of
Page # total PW total
Page 1-5 represent 25% of total PW
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7.7 %
7.7 %
Page 1-50 represent 50% of total PW
5
1.73 %
25.3 %
Page 1-500 represent 75% of total PW
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1.05 %
31.5 %
Page 2,501 – 31,798 represent 10% of total
50
0.22 %
49.46 %
100
0.11 %
57.06 %
500
0.02 %
75.68 %
1000
0.009 % 82.41 %
2500
0.003 % 89.83 %
PW
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Most …and least used.
706 pages with ZERO
visit in one month
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Prioritise you analytics effort
Most used
Improve user
experience
content
Editorial
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Future
improvement
opportunities
KPI
relevance
Increase KPI
achievement
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Prioritise you analytics effort
If we try to make everyone happy by providing meaningless data
that some might think is important but is actually useless in terms of
taking action, we don’t have time to change anything.
Only by prioritising our effort can we reach a point where we have
actual time to analyse data sufficiently and hereby achieving our
goals to improve user experience.
Don’t use time on content you can’t change – unless you are doing
research for a future redo of the website.
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28. Internal searches
Is internal search used in Analytics ?
Siteimprove Web Governance Suite usage
100,0%
80,0%
60,0%
40,0%
20,0%
0,0%
Internal Search - Search with result
Traffic Sources - Keywords
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29. Internal searches
What we want to know
What
What are the visitors searching for – what can’t they find
Where
Where are they searching – which pages
Who
Who are the users that use search
Why
Why are they searching
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38. A Danish council - Search centric design
Warning:
Google translate
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39. Webanalytics
Get started
Book time in your calendar – and use it.
Start with the simple task
Set up realistic goals and KPIs
Make the decisions data-driven
Experiment