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John TomlinsonDirector of Communications@JohnRTomlinson
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How do you define conversion?
How customers find stuff
How customers find stuff
How customers find stuff
Findability
The ability of users to identify an appropriate Web site and navigate the pages of the site to discover and retrieve relevant information resources
(Peter Morville, 2005)
The measure for how easily your customers can make the right connections to your data
(Colbenson)
How can we measure findability?
Findability analytics
What to measure (1)
1. Overall measures• How many: volume of searches• Percentage of visitors who search• Percentage of purchases from searches• Average spend per sale from searches• Average price per search
2. Findability (top level)• Percentage of CTR total (greens):
• CTR from generated results• CTR from banners and sponsored links
• Percentage of abandonments (reds)• Percentage of redo (ambers)
What to measure (2)
3. Connections• For each Results and Landing page:
• Duration, CTR, pagination, filters• Actions on the page (scroll, add to cart or other call2action etc.)
• Connections made via AutoComplete content (split by type of content)
4. Obstacles• Percentage of "next page" clicks• Percentage filtered• Percentage Zero results• Average duration on the results page
What to measure (3)
5. Search analysis• Search content:
• Top search themes and terms• Most popular search (frequency of each search)
• Findability for each search term• Volume of each search term• Clustered analysis of search terms
How customers find stuff
What gets in the way?
Avoiding obstacles
Start with the customer
Start with the customer
Focus on opportunities
Join stuff up
Join stuff up
Join stuff up
Don’t leave a dead end
Don’t leave a dead end
Use AutoComplete
Use AutoComplete
Use AutoComplete
Don’t stop
Summary
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