WEB ANALYTICSPresented by Massimo Paolini

MPThree Consulting Inc.

www.mpaolini.com

408-256-0673

WEB ANALYTICS IS ABOUTINCREASING REVENUE

WHAT WE’LL COVER

What is Web Analytics What can I do with WA What will you get from WA How do I install GA Accounts & profiles How do I configure GA What are goals and how do I configure them What basic reports can I use with GA How do I configure the reports Q & A

WHAT IS WEB ANALYTICS

“Web Analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for the purpose of understanding and optimizing Web usage.”

As defined by the Directors, Co-chairs and Advisory Board of the Web Analytics Association, August 2005.

Note remove Omniture and Webtrends and move animation to to GA

understanding optimizing

UNDERSTANDING AND OPTIMIZING`

Understanding the results of your marketing efforts across all mediums

And then… Optimizing your website to capture and

convert those visitors

Rinse & repeat

WHAT WILL YOU GET FROM WEB ANALYTICS?

You will know exactly where your clients are coming from.

How much time/money it costs you to find them.

How satisfied they are with the course you mapped for them.

Where you are losing your customers.

Where to focus your time.Analytics allow you to spend less time making more

money.

WHAT WILL YOU GET FROM WEB ANALYTICS

NEXT:HOW DO I INSTALL WA

What is Web Analytics What can I do with WA What will you get from WA

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The setup and creation of a Google Analytics account is very easy, free and allows you to receive data that you can use  towards understanding your website traffic.

1   Begin by going to the free sign-up page at:

http://www.google.com/anal

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NOTE:  If you already have an AdWords account you should open a GA account from there.  This allows  campaigns to automatically be tracked and cost & impression data imported.

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1. When creating a stand alone account the only difference is it's limited to:

   5M page views per month

   3K visitors per month

Other than this they are both exactly the same.

You may use any individual email address when signing up. 

This demo will use a Gmail account creating a standalone GA account.

  2. Existing Google email

  3. Create new Gmail Acct

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1.  Start the creation of a Google Analytics account by going to:

http://www.google.com/ analytics

2. Click on the

 "Sign Up Now" link

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1.  Enter the URL of the site for this account.

2.  Enter any name for the account or leave as the site name.

3.  Select the correct "Time Zone Country" for the site.

4.  Select the correct "Time Zone" for the site.

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1.  Enter your last name

2.  Enter your first name

3.  Select country or territory

4.  Click on Continue

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1.  Check "Yes" on the Agree to Terms and Conditions.

2.  Click "Create New Account " button.

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Lastly you are provided the Google Analytics Tracking Code.

This code is accessible at anytime via your account.

1. Follow the directions for copying & pasting it to each page on your site for tracking.

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1. Once your account is created it can be accessed at :

http://www.google.com/ analytics

2. Click on the "Access Analytics" button

3.  Log in using the Gmail account credentials entered during sign-up.

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NEXT:ACCOUNTS & PROFILES

What is Web Analytics What can I do with WA What will you get from WA How do I install GA

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A Google Analytics profile is a set of configuration parameters that define a report.

You need at least one profile in your account to view  your data.

1. Your first profile is automatically created at the end of your GA account sign-up process.

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One website can have multiple separate reports.

1. By creating 2 profiles for  U.S. Vistors vs European visitors you would have:

• One GA account

• Two Profiles• Generating two

report sets.1U.S visitors

European Visitors

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Multiple Websites

 Multiple Profiles

1. If you have multiple websites you would create separate profiles for each (domain) within the same GA account.

Thus allowing you to have reports for each and desired filters applied to them respectively. 

Note: Creating a new profile for a new domain generates a new  Async.  

See Deploying Async as part of our series to implement this new domain Async code.

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Multiple  Functions/ Divisions

 Multiple Profiles

1. If there are different functions or divisions within a business, you would commonly create separate profiles for them.

Thus allowing those responsible for that division to have their own reports.

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Single Website

 Multiple Profiles

1. On a website with separate responsibilities such as Customer Support vs Marketing you would create a separate profile.

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Once you have setup your profiles, you cannot create an aggregate report in the future.

There is no ability to rollup the individual reports.

A method you could use is to produce an aggregate report first and then use filters to generate the separate reports.

Filtered Report

Filtered Report

Filtered Report

Filtered Report

Aggregate Report

NEXT:HOW DO I CONFIGURE WA

What is Web Analytics What can I do with WA What will you get from WA How do I install GA Accounts & profiles

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Edit the profile

Change the default page if you use something other than the standard.

If you’re using an eCommerce site turn this one here.

Turn Site search on and add the appropriate parameter

Connect to your Adsense account

NEXT:GOALS AND HOW TO CONFIGURE THEM

What is Web Analytics What can I do with WA What will you get from WA How do I install GA Accounts & profiles How do I configure GA

WHY DOES YOUR SITE EXIST?

What are the goals for your site? Get more leads Increase sales Increase downloads Increase usage of FAQ/help

Are there any other goals besides these?

Without a goal, Web Analytics is just a huge

collection of data

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Some goals are very obvious

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When we use this site we know what to do

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Others are more subtle about it

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Other goals are in between and don’t have the same immediate monetary results

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Lastly some have goals but leave it up to you to figure them out.

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Back on the settings screen is another section called goals.

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Set the name, goal position (there are 20), type, and details.

If you need to mesure steps then use a funnel.

You can measure virtual pages.

MOST PEOPLE THINK THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET WORKS?

Shopping Cart

Shipping information

Payment information

Thank you for shopping with us

428 People

428 People

428 People

THE UGLY TRUTH

NEXT:WHAT BASIC REPORTS CAN I USE WITH GA

What is Web Analytics What can I do with WA What will you get from WA How do I install GA Accounts & profiles How do I configure GA

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To adjust the date range to something other than the default last 30 days, click anywhere on the date area.

This expands that section to show the:

    Date Range Selector 

Which shows the previous 30 days (not including the current day).

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Selecting quick data ranges:

Week:

Click on the rounded portion of the desired week.

Day:

Click on the individual date.

Month:

Click on the month name

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"Compare to Past" feature

Today is July 1st, so by default the month of June is selected for traffic to view.

Checking the Compare to Past option allows you to compare your date range with the identical previous period.

In this case it selects the month of May which is exactly the Month period prior to the month of June.

Graph comparing traffic based on date ranges selected.

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Data Comparison

The metrics (numbers) reflect:

Green = increase over period.

Red = Decrease over period.

* Bounce rate is the inverse.  If positive will show red as this is not ideal.

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 Comparison Date Range

If the default second date range (May in this case) does not align the days of the week with June:

        Mon - Mon

        Tues - Tues

         etc...

Then you should attempt to adjust the date range to match the days of the week between the months.

In ours June starts on a Tuesday, so the May data range was adjusted to start on a Tuesday also.

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Time Line Sliders

The Time Line Sliders are an alternate way to select your date range.

You can:

• See the visitor totals before selecting it.

• See key events that may not be part of the default comparison range.

• Easily slide the view

• Easily expand it with the handles.

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Table Views

The default data view is provided in a table. This can be changed to any of the following by clicking on the respective icon:

o Pie Charto Bar Charto Delta

(Comparison)o Pivot

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Table Views

The most quickly intuitive views to see what activity is occurring from your data are the:

 

Pie Chart

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Bar Chart

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Table Views

The Delta view allows you to use the Compare to Past date range feature and provides a comparison of performance to that previous time period.

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Table Views

The Pivot Table view allows you to view multiple data points at the same time.

Thus decreasing the need to  switch back and forth between reports.

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Having a long list of Source Medium in your table and trying to browse through each table row can be time consuming and less than an optimal approach.

Even using different

Table Views doesn't facilitate drilling down to targeted data.

To simplify the process &  display specific / desired data you can use:

TABLE FILTERS

TABLE FILTERS

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There are two approaches of filtering your table data:

The first is a Simple Format:

Setting the Filter Source to containing or excluding and entering keyword(s) or pattern match in the field.

This applies just to the Source Medium column.

In this example we:

1. Selected containing

2.  Entered "google"

and the number of source medium entries went from

 39 to just 5.

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The second filtering approach is the Advance Filter.

This allows for Filtering on multiple criteria such as visits, time on site, etc.

In this example we:

1. Selected "containing" for Source Medium and kept "google"

2.  We added a new condition of visits equal to "2"

and our results are reduced from 5 to 2.

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Pattern Matching

The Simple Format & Advanced Filter use  Regular Expressions for pattern matching.

Very straight forward:

 Containing or Excluding

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 Equality selection

They even allow partial matching by entering a portion of a word and are not case sensative.

CHART OPTIONS

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Chart Options

The Data-Over-Time graph shows Visits by default.

However, simply by clicking on the Visits drop-down menu you can select other metrics you desire to be plotted.   

In this example we selected Page/Visit and the plotted graph changed to reflect the metrics for this.

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Chart Options

You can also display the comparison of two plotted metrics at the same time.

After clicking on the Compare Two Metrics option we chose:

Visits  & Pages / Visits

Each metric is shown in a different color and scaled by one or the other axis.

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Chart Options

An additional chart option is Compare to Site.

For an individually graphed metric it provides a site-wide average.

The graph to the left shows Google visits in relation to the site-wide data.

Indicating Google is the source of most of the visits to this site.

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For the Compare to Site feature to plot the site data properly you must be drilled down into the reports

Otherwise, it will overlay it onto your current data as in the second graph on the left.

This is because by default the report data is not segmented.  

A concept we'll cover in a future presentation.

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RESOURCES

Google Analytics help Google Conversion University Ultimate GA guide Yahoo Web Analytics forum Facebook Web Analytics page Yoast.com Your friendly Web Analyst

Links are on our sites here.

I will be emailing this presentation to anyone who leaves me a business card.