Monday, February 11, 2008

Google Analytics defined


Google Analytics is a revolutionary web statistics generating tool that allows users to track traffic at their site. Its popularity comes from its simple design and its user friendly statistics. Google Analytics offers a wide variety of statistical measures such as map overlays, new vs. old users, visitor loyalty, visitor trending, and traffic sources. All these services are offered in one easy to use tool kit offered free to anyone from Google.

Google Analytics changes the way we view marketing. With this new software webmasters and Bloggers can clearly monitor the activity on their website. This tool allows them to efficiently track their efforts as traffic on the site is easily and continuously monitored. The map overlay is a uniquely designed tool that allows the user to identify where visitors are visiting from in respect to their global location. This allows the user to see where the majority of their traffic comes from. The new vs. old user’s tool is helpful in tracking unique and returning visitors to understand if your website is helpful enough to attract returning visitors.

The loyalty function on Google Analytics allows users to track the loyalty of their frequent visitors, recency of visitors, their length of visit, and depth of visit. Visitor trending allows the user to measure absolute users, page views, average page views, time on site, and bounce rate.
There are many different uses for the statistics provided by Google Analytics and with the current trends in informational analysis the possibilities for software programs like these are endless.


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