Path Analysis: A Good Use of Time?

Path Analysis: A process of determining a sequence of pages visited in a visitor session prior to some desired outcome (a purchase, a sign up, visiting a certain part of site etc). The desired end goal is to get a sequence of pages, each of whom form a path, that lead to a desired outcome. Usually these paths are ranked by frequency.

Is doing Path Analysis a good use of time? In my humble opinion the answer is a rather emphatic no, except for one exception (which I’ll discuss below). Almost always Path Analysis tends to be a sub optimal use of our time, resources and any money that is…

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Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything

Second in a series that aims to share some guidance on how to move from the world of Web Analytics to the world of Web Insights.

By now it is fairly well established that absolute numbers (KPI’s) that represent one data point are fairly useless. Example: what was the conversion number in May. Just by itself it is not useful.

A while back we all moved to measuring trends which gave a bit more context to our metrics. Example: what is the trend for my conversion rate from January to May (or even better from May last year to May this year). Gives nice context on if we are…

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