Define a Perfect Analytics Day
Vladimir Prelovac, author of the WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide, recently reported he had a near perfect analytics day.
Perfect analytics with all three sources of traffic being equal.
What’s so great about it?
The traffic sources are equally spread.
In the chart on his site, it shows traffic sources as 34% direct, 30% referrers, and 35% search engines. He says:
…by distributing the traffic among referral sites (which means you make good content that people link to), and investing in the user experience (again you make good content so they will come back) you have secured your site against virtually all Internet turmoil – which is the way to run in it the long run.
For some people, they would not look at the breakdown of stats this way. For some, a perfect analytics or stats day would be a giant jump in traffic. For others, it’s a fast and consistent growth upward. Still some want more referrals than search engines, and others are pleased with a ton of search engine traffic and don’t care about direct or referral traffic.
What would define your near or totally perfect analytics or stats day? What analytics do you depend upon to give you a day-by-day accounting of where you are with your site and business online?
Getting someone who I did not personally tell to go to my website on my website.
i care about search engine traffic, it helps me see whats making ppl come to my site
but i would like to see more referrals traffic
A perfect day…
8am; Seeing one person on our site looking for a Strawberry Farm to go pick fruit with the family and finding a story from last year. Following them with Woopra while they devourer all the information we have on Strawberries.
9am; Shooting the plants coming up from the cool earth and a long winters nap.
10am; Writing a story about the soon to be fruitful Strawberry Plants.
10:30am; Pressing “Publish”
11am; Watching as dozens of people looking for Strawberry Farms find our new story as the Woopra Map blinks wildly on the wall from towns all over New England.
Noon; Thanking God for Woopra!
You see it’s not the stats, its the content. “Content Counts”
Woopra allows us to form the content real time, to the market as it happens.
From that…. “Stats Happen”
A perfect day would have mutple evenly distributed sources of the referral & search traffic – defensable & reliable if one source should dry up
My perfect analytics day would be the day that several people signed up for accounts, w/out me telling them. Or one that someone actually found my sight using search engines.
My perfect analytic day would be a slow but consistent increase across sources. I am not really interested in spikes, but more concerned about trends.
My perfect analytics day would be when all my traffic comes to my website regularly and not in bursts at 2:AM. I myself, am more concerned about maintaining healthy search engine traffic, unfortunately, I screwed something up when I changed the link format of my Blog, and now I’m getting 404 errors all over the place. Oh well, I guess I’ll live.
Seeing the variety of keywords that have helped people find the site. Also using Woopra I have realized that my users are active people who when the weather is nice don’t sit around reading my coffee blog. So although my traffic tanks on nice warm sunny weekend days, I am happy to know that my readers are enjoying the sunshine!