AnalyticsWhy use Analytics: Section 1

What does it do?

Analytics software are quantitative programs that record different statistics of websites. Most analytics software are similar in how they work and what they record, but there are many available options for this service.

Google Analytics

Google provides a great analytic software that’s easy to use, has a simple sign up program, and it’s free. Currently it’s the most popular used analytics software.

Instructions on how to sign up for Google analytics, along with any help or information needed can be found here.

Compare your Analysis

As an ever evolving company its important to compare choices and decisions to find what is most effective. Analytics makes this process much more simple by showing everything in numbers and graphs. Common traits to compare are:

Visits

Time of visits

Which pages were visited

How long users spent on a page

Applying Results

As great as Analytics are, it’s still up to you to determine what needs to be changed and what can be improved from the quantitative results that are provided. This information can be useful for figuring out stuff like:

Content Length

Quality of content

Location of content

Section 1 Complete. Nice job!