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Web Analytics

A generic term used to describe analysis of the website traffic and performance. Technology that tracks and organizes visitor activity on the Internet including (but not limited to)
  • number of unique visitors that visit a site (unique traffic)
  • number of visitors to a site, not unique (gross traffic)
  • number of times a visitor views a page (page views)
  • number of times the loading of a page requests information from a server (hits)
  • amount of sales generated by a website (sales)
  • number of interactive actions performed by visitors like subscribing to a newsletter, downloading a white paper, applying for employment, requesting information (conversions)
  • percentage of unique traffic that purchased (conversion rate)
  • advanced systems have data covering cover click fraud, trademark, search engine positions, etc.
Very often the technology will organize the data into charts and graphs covering a period of time.

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