Web Design and Development

How to Measure The Success of Your WordPress Website

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It’s about time your website paid dividends&comma; isn’t it&quest; So you’ve built a WordPress website and you somehow can’t quantify its success&period; This is where Google Analytics enters the fray&comma; acting as a measure of how far your website has come ever since its inception&period; Irrespective of the medium of <a title&equals;"WordPress development Company" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;icecubedigital&period;com&sol;wordpress-development&sol;">WordPress development Company<&sol;a> that you opt for&comma; GA is the one stop solution when it comes to keeping a track of your website performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<table>&NewLine;<tbody>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td>&NewLine;<&excl;-- top ad-1 --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon; inline-block&semi; width&colon; 336px&semi; height&colon; 280px&semi;" data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4800536516440217" data-ad-slot&equals;"9937997884"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td>&NewLine;<&excl;-- Home remedies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon; inline-block&semi; width&colon; 336px&semi; height&colon; 280px&semi;" data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4800536516440217" data-ad-slot&equals;"9937997884"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<&sol;tbody>&NewLine;<&sol;table>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There are countless parameters which can help give you clarity on this matter&semi; however&comma; let’s focus our attention on the factors which have the maximum weight age when it comes to the success of your website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Website Traffic&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>This parameter is as clear as day&period; It’s not just about an increase in traffic&semi; it’s about a consistent improvement of the numbers&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Do pay heed to the number of visitors you’re website is getting on a daily&comma; weekly and monthly basis depending on the domain you’re in&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>A consistent increase&comma; be it slow&comma; should tell you that you’re on the right path&period; It is a clear indicator of you retaining your clientele and adding new ones as well&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Percentage of New Sessions&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>The number of sessions is important&comma; yes&semi; but what’s more important is the percentage of new sessions&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>A healthy session number is supposed to be a good barometer&comma; is it&quest; NO&excl; What happens if all your increased sessions are being contributed by the already present follower base&quest; This doesn’t add much value to your website&comma; does it&quest; It simply means that you’ve reached a stagnant stage&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Ergo&comma; the presence of new sessions is the keyword here as that indicates direct progress&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Traffic Source Metrics&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>How can the traffic source be important on the lines of website success&quest; A healthy distribution of users visiting your website from all kinds of sources like organic&comma; direct and referrals indicates a healthy website state for you&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>You get referrals when someone likes what you do and spreads the word&period; Hence&comma; getting traffic from these third party sources is a good indicator of your website success&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Other than this&comma; there’s the organic traffic route which if high&comma; indicates that your <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;avoid-top-5-seo-misinterpretations-top-2017&sol;">SEO<&sol;a> regime is spot on&period; This means that the search engines like your site which is why they’ve put you on a higher spot in the rankings&period; A win win situation&comma; isn’t it&quest;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Weight of New Users&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>As suggested earlier&comma; an increase in the amount of new visitors speaks success all the way&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>This is not just an account of the number of 1st time visitors on your website&comma; but it is a sign of the website heading in a positive direction&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Also&comma; you’ll be able to dissect the weight of these new users i&period;e&period; how many of these users are actually converting&quest; Its no use to keep on generating leads if they don’t convert&comma; is it&quest; Based on the conversion numbers&comma; you’ll see if the problem lies with the website engagement quotient&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Average Session Time&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>This is the average time per session i&period;e&period; the average time a visitor spends on your website before exiting&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Longer the session time&comma; better equipped your website is in terms of what is on offer&comma; UI&sol;UX&comma; design and much more&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>A healthy increase here will speak volumes about the good work your website is doing in terms of keeping the visitors engaged for a substantial period of time&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Bounce rate&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>Bounce rate or exit rate as it is often labeled denotes the &percnt; of visitors who exit the website rather than staying and browsing&period; The lower the percentage&comma; the better it gets for your website&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Hence&comma; if your website is showcasing a smaller bounce rate&comma; it directly means that the individuals visiting your website are staying there for a substantial period of time&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Pages per session&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>More the number of pages per session&comma; more the chances of your website getting conversions&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>This showcases an overall healthy website state in the sense that multiple website pages are getting &OpenCurlyQuote;hits’&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Customer engagement&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>Are individuals talking about you&quest; Are they liking and sharing your content throughout the online space&quest;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Are you getting comments on your posts regularly&quest; Are your news feed subscribers increasing regularly&quest; All this &OpenCurlyQuote;social listening’ and engaging with customers is a barometer of your website moving in the right direction&period; Its always good to be talked about&comma; isn’t it&quest;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Conversion Graph&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>Last but not the least&comma; the state of your conversion graph denotes the progress your website has made&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>A steady and consistent graph moving upwards is a sign of customers liking what you have on offer&comma; ultimately leading to more and more conversions on a daily basis&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Ultimately&comma; it’s all about the numbers you generate whether it is in terms of new visitors or direct revenue or generating <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;biggest-website-blunders-that-are-costing-you-leads&sol;">potential leads<&sol;a>&period; These &OpenCurlyQuote;numbers’ define your website through and through&period; All you need is to monitor and keep a track using Google Analytics on a periodical basis&period; This will not only tell you in detail about the status quo but allow you to make amends wherever there is a room&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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