Will you opt out of Google Analytics?

Over the past few years, Google Analytics has become very popular with website owners wishing to track website usage and visitor statistics. It has everything most businesses need, its easy to use and free.

Privacy is an issue with any tracking or monitoring mechanism, whether its web analytics or video surveillance cameras. The collection of data by [...]

Yes you can monitor and measure Social Media Marketing

One of the often heard concerns about the use of social media by business is “How do I know its working?”.

A very valid concern as the traditional web analytics methods can only really measure activity on your own website.

However there are now a wide variety of new tools and services available to allow companies and their [...]

Improving web page performance

Do you have important pages on your website which have a high bounce rate and low conversion rate?

Avinash Kaushik explored the likely reasons for this in a recent blog post and gave a simple formula for improvement:

1. Have a clear understanding of what the purpose of that page is and
2a. a clearer understanding of what drove [...]

Why Bother with Web Statistics?

With the shift of marketing budgets towards online activities, more and more companies are adding collecting visitor data, using technologies such as Google Analytics.

However a recent survey in eMarketer reports that while 79% of companies are capturing data, only 30% are then using that data to improve the perfromance of their internet marketing and website!

This is [...]

Why Web Analytics are important!

Web Analytics are vital for any business as they provide a window into your web site to examine how well it is doing its job.

Every business should have a goal for its web site. It should define what actions you want visitors to your site to take - Complete a form, buy something, sign up for the newsletter etc. 

Without [...]

Does your website deliver results?

 Its simple question that reveals a lot about a business and their internet presence.

Most enterprises can provide a ‘soft’ or qualititive answer – ‘we want sales enquiries and we know we get quite a few from the web site”.

However far fewer have established targets or success criteria – “we aim for an average of 10 leads a [...]