Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Week Four

1) Looking at the site usage, what does the terms visits, page views and pages/visit mean? What does the bounce rate mean and does it vary
much from day to day?

By looking at the Analytical website the term visit means how many people have visited the website. There were how many people who visited the my blog website. The page views mean how many times the page has been viewed. In this case the page had been viewed 88 times. (As from May 29, 2012) This will vary.


Bounce rate is generally when the user/viewer goes to a different page or site from that site. The bounce rate does vary from day to day such as the average rate was 70.69%. On Monday the 2nd of March the bounce rate was 53.85% whereas on Wednesday the 1st of April the bounce rate of OZRURAL was 83.33% according to the Google Analytic website. (Google, 2009).


Google.(2009). Google Analytics. Retrieved April 21, 2012 from:
https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/bounce_rate?id=2683968&pdr=20090302-20090401&cmp=average&trows=10&gdfmt=nth_day&lp=%2Fanalytics%2Freporting%2Fvisitors#lts=1238648578739



2) Now look at the traffic sources report. What are the three sources of traffic and where has most of the traffic come from?


The most popular web browser is Internet explorer. 240 people used Internet Explorer, 75 used Fire Fox, 19 Safari, 13 used Chrome and 1 used Mozilla. Internet explorer is the most popular web browser because it is the most used and common. (Google, 2009).

Google(2009). Visitors Overview. Retrieved April 21, 2012 from:
https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/visitors?id=2683968&pdr=20090302-20090401&cmp=average&lp=%2Fanalytics%2Freporting%2F&trows=10&gdfmt=nth_day&rpt=VisitorsOverviewReport&tab=0&tchcol=0&tst=0&tscol=v0&tsdir=0&mdet=WORLD&midx=0&gidx=0&glcnt=1#lts=1238648521170


3) What was the most popular web browser used to access the site?


Internet Explorer   Safari  Chrome and  Firefox


The most popular browser used to access the site is Internet Explorer. Accounting for 239 visits (68.29%).






4) How many countries did visitors to Foliospaces come from and what were the top four countries?


When I was doing this question, there were 7922 visitors from 71 countries. And the top four were Australia (3078 visitors), United States (2152 visitors), United Kingdom (729), and Pakistan (515 visitors).






5) Having clicked every possible link on my analytics, make a few comments on (a) What you can track, (b) What you can track over time and (c) What you can’t track.




(a) What you can track, On the website you can track:· Visits
· Page views
· Time on site
· Bounce rate
· Traffic source
· List of countries that the user comes from
· User overview

(b) What you can track over time

· Number of visits
· Number of times pages have been visited
· How long people spend on a page
· Number of countries which visit the website
· Bounce rate
(c) What you can’t track.· The gender of the user
· The direct location of the user
· Age of the user


6) What do the following terms mean? These are just a few; you may like to add some more yourself.


High bounce rate means generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors.

Key words are words used by visitors to search relevant information.

Average Page Depth presents the average number of pages on a site that visitors view during a single session.

Click through rate calculates the number of times an ad is clicked on, divided by the number of impressions it receives.

Click is an action of clicking links on the website.

Cookie is a message given to a
web browser by web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
(Retrieved from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/cookie.html)

Impression is a display of a referral link or advertisement on a web page.
(Retrieved from
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer)

Hyperlink is a text reference in a web page that, when clicked, directs the user's browser to another page or document. Hyperlinks are integral to the World Wide Web, allowing every page to be linked to any other page.
(Retrieved from http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57246)

Navigation is visitor click on a link or button on one website which leads to another website.

Pageview stats number of time a certain page was loaded by visitors.

Session is a period of interaction between a visitor's browser and a particular website, ending when the browser is closed or shut down, or when the user has been inactive on that site for a specified period of time. For the purpose of Google Analytics reports, a session is considered to have ended if the user has been inactive on the site for 30 minutes.
(Retrieved from http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=33073)

Unique Visitors (or Absolute Unique Visitors) represent the number of visitors who were only counted once to the website over a specified time of period.

URL is Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, which is the is the global address of
documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

Visitor is someone browsing website.

Visitor Session is a defined period of interaction between a Visitor (both unique and untraceable visitor types) and a website.
(Retrieved From http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33095)


Comparison shopping is what provided by website to let consumers compare prices, quality and etc before purchasing, which give consumers the chance to save money.

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