Superfast Business - offers fully funded support to help ambitious businesses in the South West with a focus on rural areas identify, maximise and profit from the opportunities that superfast broadband and new technologies present. They have a team of expert advisers, a programme of events on hot topics offering inspirational insights and practical solutions and access to IT specialists and knowledge.
The service is aimed at businesses who have heard superfast broadband is coming to their area or are already experiencing good connection speeds and fulfill ERDF eligibility criteria.
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• LA Police
•Review 13 million past crimes to predict current behavior
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What data so small businesses have?
•Social analysis + web analytics + CRM data + email data+ support queries = Big data
•Customer’s behaviours, recruitment, product testing, market testing, product lifecycles, product usage
•Open Data from Governments and public services may open new customer insights, new services, new products
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•Oct 2013 - 15,429,942 sites use Google Analytics.
•60% of the top 10,000 sites use it
•82% of sites using it are using Analytics incorrectly. *
source: econsultancy*
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What is Google Analytics?
•Google’s statistics package
•Tracks and records all data from all sources
•Data is held anonymously
•Measures, analyses, compares and reports
•All Historic data from commencement
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Analytics set up…
•Set up account
•Copy Code
•Paste to all pages of site
•Remove own IP address
•Share account with others
•Download the app for tablet and smartphone
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Key performance indicators
Reach
•Pay-per-click cost per acquisition
•Pay-per-click total conversions
•Site visits
•Channel acquisition
•Average order value
Convert
•Unique visitors
•Total visits
•Page views
•New visitors
•New customers
•Total orders per day, week, month
•Time on site per visit
•Page views per visit
•Checkout abandonment
•Cart abandonment
•Return rate
•Gross margin
•Customer service open cases
Retain
•Email open, click, and conversion rates
•Referral sources: percent from search, direct, email, pay-per- click, other
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My 8 most important KPIs for websites
1.How many visitors?
2.Bounce rate
3.Time on site & number of pages visited
4.Ratio of mobile to desktop users
5.Ratio of channels
6.% of visits from non-brand search terms
7.Range of landing pages
8.Conversion rate
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1. How many visits?
How many visitors are coming to your site?
Who are they?
Are they new or loyal visitors?
Where have they come from?
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What is a Session?
•Session = visit - grouped interactions in a given timeframe
•Multiple page views, downloads, e-commerce transactions
•One visitor can have many visits of weeks or months
•Visit ends
–30 minutes of inactivity
–At midnight
–Change of campaign
22. Is the number good or bad? Compare it to same time last year+1
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What can we measure - Visits
•How many people have visited in a give timeframe
•How popular is our site, are visits increasing or decreasing?
•New visits vs return visitors
•Are they loyal or new?
•Where do they come from?
–Where is the interest, is it where you expected?
•What are their age, gender, interests?
–Is it what you expected?
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What is a bounce rate?
Bounce Rate:
•Can be defined as a single interaction with a page on your website (not always the home page) and then exit
Bounce rate scenarios
•Clicks the back button (most common)
•Closes the browser (window/tab)
•Types a new URL
•Does nothing (session times out after 30min)
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Why is this important?
•Measure of the quality of the page
Or
•Measure of the quality of your optimisation
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What’s an average bounce rate
•Changes for each type of business…. Industry, brand credibility, type of site, type of page, step in the funnel (where the page is in the site), stage of the customer lifecycle, user intent, and many other potential factors.
•But on average – very roughly ----Between 40-50%
Think about this in context for you…..
–Clicked an external link – for an external login
–Contact us page
–Customer support pages
–Blog articles
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Typical bounce rates
•40-60% Content websites
•30-50% Lead generation sites
•70-98% Blogs
•20-40% Retail sites
•10-30% Service sites
•70-90% Landing pages
Source – Google Analytics 2012
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3. Time on site & number of pages visited
What pages did they visit
How many pages did they visit
Does this correlate with time on site
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•How long do you normally stay on a page?
……Around 1 minute
•Did you know we tend to read only a ¼ of text on a page?
Source Jakob Neilson 2013
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What does this tell us?
•Is the content relevant?
•Is it compelling?
•Is there enough content on the page
•Can you have too long time on site?
•Yes.. Download may be an issue (look at webmaster tools for ave download time of your site)
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4. Ratio of mobile/desktop users
Who’s using what on your site?
Does your site work well on all the devices?
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•Mobile use of Google is up 400% in the last year
•Christmas day 75% of visits to John Lewis were from mobile and tablet
•25% of visits to local authority sites are from mobile
•Met office is now 50% mobile
•What’s your %?
Did you know
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•Direct – typed into an address bar
•Referral – clicked on a link
•Organic – typed into a search engine
•Social – Clinked on a link from social media
•Other
•Ideally balanced approach, unless your strategy is for one specific route
•Too much Direct is a worry though – as it means no-one knows about you outside of your customers
What are the sources?
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6. % of visits from non-brand search terms
Are people finding you without knowing you?
Is Search engine optimisation working for you?
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What does this tell us?
•Who is getting to your site using non branded terms
•How long are they staying
•What are they doing?
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7. Range of landing pages
Is your site well optimised?
Are customers finding directly what they want rather than a home page?
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Behaviour> site content> Landing pages
Most popular landing pages…. / = home Any campaigns working well? SEO working well?
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8. Goal conversion rate
Focus on core outcomes
Think about your objectives
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What is a conversion? ….. What you want it to be…. Create a goal
•Sale
•Form submission
•Trial signup
•Content consumption
•Download software
•View FAQ….
•average website conversion rate usually is around 2%.
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Goal settings
•What is a goal? Measures how well your site fulfils an objective
•i.e. to get someone to purchase, visit your contact page or download a document
•Creating goal – Admin > Goals and add a value too
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My 8 most important KPIs for websites
1.How many visitors?
2.Bounce rate
3.Time on site & number of pages visited
4.Ratio of mobile to desktop users
5.Ratio of channels
6.% of visits from non-brand search terms
7.Range of landing pages
8.Conversion rate
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Number of
•Facebook fans
•Twitter Followers
•YouTube Subscribers
•Keep an eye for unsubscribers
•Think about demographics - male/female split
•Any best time for posting? Any particular interests?
What’s your reach?
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•Number of likes, shares, re-tweets
•Ratio of engagement to followers – good KPI and comparison against competitors
•Number of comments and mentions
•What’s worked? What hasn’t?
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