Sunday, November 25, 2007

Web Analytics: Make A Plan. And Stick To It.

When it comes to analyzing your web site statistics, what's infinitely more important than the numbers themselves is the actual trend that they portray. If you're trying to build traffic to a web site (and who isn't these days?) then your first concern should be that the numbers are increasing on a regular basis.
To properly watch those numbers, and know when you need to make adjustments, you should not depend on analyzing statistics that have been logged over time. Instead, you should make a daily, weekly and monthly schedule to look over certain statistics.
For example, you may want to watch daily trends in traffic and page views so that any trend lasting more than a couple of days can be immediately addressed.
Once a week, you might want to look at how View the rest of this article


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