Category Archives: Analytics

Analytics Part 4

Keyword Report: This is one of the most important reports! This report will tell you what people searched for on google (and other search engines) that drove them to your site. In this case, Scott had 370 visits from search engines. From this list you can see that: 177 people searched for “scott hargis” 64… Continue Reading

Analytics Part 3

Referring sites means that Scott posted something at another site, or was mentioned at another site and had a link back to his main website. Clicking on referring sites brings us to this page. Here we see that he had 161 visits from photographyforrealestate.net, 159 visits from his wordpress.com blog, 81 from the strobist.blogspot.com and… Continue Reading

Analytics Part 2

Clicking on the map will show where people came from to your website. The first map will be of the world (03a). In this case, Scott had 794 visitors from the USA, 106 from Canada, and less in other countries. You can also see that the people from Canada spent 2x as much time on… Continue Reading

Analytics Part 1

Google analytics is a very powerful tool in analyzing your website. It can give much insight as to how people got to your site, as well as what they viewed. The analysis of analytics that appears below was written in June 2010, but it still applies today. I took a look at a friend’s google… Continue Reading