Web Analytics monitors the traffic on your site and gives you a wide range of vital and detailed information on how visitors are interacting with your business online. We often hear “oh, yes, I've got analytics installed” but the numbers of people who are doing something meaningful with it are close to zero.
Many don't realise that you can set business goals and objectives allowing you to continuously measure how well your site and business are performing, to see if you are getting the best value for money out of both of them. You can even customise how your analytics page displays so that it is easier for you to get to the information you're interested in.
Almost everything can be measured – from the number of visitors, clicks and open rates to location, demographics, to time spent on the site, how your site was found and even the order of pages that your users look at. Web analytics can also be used to gather data about competitors in your industry, so you can glimpse into what they are doing and find out what does and doesn't work more effectively.
With so much information available it is difficult for business owners to embrace the potential of analytics, as the amount of data can be overwhelming to newcomers. At WSI we have teams of Analytics specialists and we can work with you and your business to identify what you want to achieve with your online business presence. We can show you how to make more money online using web analytics. Call for a meeting today to see what we can do for you!
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| Total UK online sales reached £58.8bn by the end of 2010 - an
18% increase on 2009. It is predicted that this total will reach
£69bn by the end of 2011. Source: IMRG as cited by Marketingmagazine.co.uk, January 2011 |
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| 83% of UK online shoppers use search engines to research a
purchase. Source: RichRelevance and Bazaarvoice as cited by eMarketer, November 2010 |
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| In the UK, £1 in every £4 of total ad spend goes online Source: IAB '10 Years of Advertising' 2010 as cited by comScore, November 2010 |
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| Over 2/3 of UK consumers ages 14 and older—roughly 26 million
people—bought goods, travel or other services online at least
once per month in 2010. Source: eMarketer, November 2010 |
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| 70% of UK households (ie: at least one person in the
household) use the internet for buying goods/services Source: Ofcom, August 2010 |