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Urchin & Website Usability
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Usability Study
• Usability study is a repetitive process that involves testing a site and then using the test results to change the tested site to better meet users' needs
• Urchin can assist in studying the usability of your website
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Usability Study
• Important to think: “how well is our site allowing the users to meet their goals” rather than “how well do the users do on our site”
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Urchin and Usability
• For Content and Web Developers Urchin can help answer questions about your web traffic:– What site content are people most interested in? – How many people reach a target page on my
website?– If users abandon the website before purchasing,
when do they stop and why? – What types of error results do users receive and
why are users receiving these errors?
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Good Usability vs. Poor Usability
• An essential question to ask is: “Is my website efficient and effective?”
• Involves using website optimization tools such as Urchin and reviewing the design and content of your website including:– Navigation– Links– Layout – Quality of content
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Poor Usability
• Some signs of poor user experience would be:– Lots of traffic, few purchases – Visitors only hitting the top level of your site
-- not deeper pages – Lack of repeat customers
• Excellent site for resources on website usability - http://www.usableweb.com/
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Traffic Summary
• Urchin – Traffic > Summary
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Status and Errors
• Pages & Files > Status and Errors
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Status and Errors
• Essential for determining where problems exist of your website
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404 Page Not Found Errors
• 404 Page Not Found Errors – Pages not found when requested
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404 Errors – Possible Causes
• Causes are varied– Bad links on your site– Bad links on other
sites linking to your site
– The use of old bookmarks/favorites or saved links
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404 Solutions – Bad Links Your Site
• Bad links on your site – Run site-wide link checks– Use Dreamweaver’s built in link checker or
one of the free link checker sources available on the web which check both internal and external links.
– Xenu Link Sleuth (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html).
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404 Solutions – Bad Links Other Sites
• Bad links on other sites• Send out reminders to known sites that you
have updated your website• Inform search engines to reassess your
website for URLs • Update directories your site is listed with
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404 Solutions – Bookmarks
• Send known users a reminder
• Set up dummy pages – Pages in directories users are still attempting to view
• Create re-directs
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404 Solutions – Custom Error Page
• Custom errors page
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Tracking Users - Navigation
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Tracking Users – Bounce Rate
• Navigation > Bounce Rate
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Tracking Users – Bounce Rate
• Visitors who enter your website and exit without viewing other pages
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Tracking Users – Bounce Rate
• Statistically the top entrance page is the top exit page
• Goal: Lower the ratio of exits to entrances a page, to the smallest possible number
• Add “Call to Actions” to entice additional clicks
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Tracking Users – Bounce Rate
• Questions that should be asked:– On which pages are a high bounce rate
occurring on? – Is there a logical explanation? – Are there problems on these pages that
need to be looked at?
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Tracking Users – Bounce Rate
• Analyze individual pages – assess drop off
• Possible issues:– Download time– Outbound links– Navigation issues– Other elements
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Tracking Users – Click Paths
• Navigation > Click Paths
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Tracking Users – Click Paths
• Click Paths - the most popular paths traveled by your site's visitors
• Each entry lists one or more pages in the order they are viewed using arrows
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Tracking Users – Pageviews
• Navigation > Pageviews
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Tracking Users – Pageviews
• Long page views can mean:– Users are reading– Users are looking
around– Or it can mean
download time is too long
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Google Analytics & Urchin
• Google recently purchased Urchin• Some new features in Google Analytics
– Funnel Visualization– Tracking outbound links– Keyword Campaign comparison
• The best thing about it is: it’s FREE! • Currently not accepting new accounts• Keep checking back to sign up:
http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html