Google Analytics provides a wealth of information about your website visitors. It will tell you your audience age and gender, languages they use, where they come from, their interests and purchase intents and much more. You can track these changes over time as well. You can use this information to rank your traffic sources, to optimize your investment of time and resources into different marketing channels, to build sales strategy and much more. Start from understanding your audience’s age, gender and geographical information. You can combine it with TRAFFIC SOURCES, ENGAGEMENT RATE and CONTENT ELEMENTS metrics.

Traffic sources tell you what websites and social networks your audience comes from. Analyze it over time and use insights to understand what drives your traffic and where to focus your efforts to maximise it. We recommend looking deeper into audience traits from different traffic sources. Identify audience that engages with your content, paying customers or people with relevant interests and rank your sources accordingly. Then focus your efforts on sources with highest value.

You can measure your content quality by monitoring TIME ON SITE, BOUNCE and EXIT RATE trends. Any drops or spikes may require investigation. It will be easy to correlate them to content modifications over time. If spikes are not related to content changes, perhaps it is due to sudden change in TRAFFIC SOURCES. Correlate BOUNCE and EXIT RATE to TRAFFIC SOURCES; if irrelevant content is served to new audiences, your landing pages or ad campaigns settings may require fine-tuning.

It is possible to rank individual pages by VIEWS and TIME SPENT on them. Combine this with understanding of LANDING and EXIT PAGES and you will get enough insights to optimise your website for better user experience and achieving goals such as product downloads, product purchase and revenue targets.

If your website is not achieving its goals, there is almost no point in having one. A goal represents a completed activity (or CONVERSIONS such as making a purchase (for an ecommerce site) or submitting a contact information form (for a marketing or lead generation site) and so on. We have collected a number of metrics that will tell you if your website is doing it’s job. Make sure you define goals in Google Analytics first. Monitoring them in real-time is very easy with Platform.

eCommerce is a large and separate group of metrics provided by Google Analytics. We have put together essential insights for daily practical eCommerce monitoring. They cover PRODUCTS and CAMPAIGNS ranked by REVENUE, CONVERSION RATE, plus a number of REVENUE breakdowns. Make sure you setup eCommerce in your Google Analytics first. Start monitoring daily metrics with Platform and dive into more details when you spot new trends.