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A web site owner also wants to analyze visitor behavior. For example, if a web site offers products for sale, the owner wants to convert as many visitors to a completed purchase. If there is a sign-up form with multiple pages, web site owners want to guide visitors to the final sign-up page. Path analysis answers typical questions like:
Web tracking is the practice by which operators of websites and third parties collect, store and share information about visitors' activities on the World Wide Web.Analysis of a user's behaviour may be used to provide content that enables the operator to infer their preferences and may be of interest to various parties, such as advertisers.
Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of web data to understand and optimize web usage. [1] Web analytics is not just a process for measuring web traffic but can be used as a tool for business and market research and assess and improve website effectiveness.
Web traffic is the data sent and received by visitors to a website.Since the mid-1990s, web traffic has been the largest portion of Internet traffic. [1] Sites monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or pages of their site are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country.
Bounce rate is an Internet marketing term used in web traffic analysis.It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and then leave ("bounce") rather than continuing to view other pages within the same site.
Collecting mobile web analytics data has proven to be less straightforward than traditional web analytics due to a few factors. Traditional analytics software on a mobile website only provides data for HTTP requests coming from the most advanced mobile browsers; such as those found in the iPhone and other smart phones and PDAs, with no data on other mobile devices browsing the site.
A click path or clickstream is the sequence of hyperlinks one or more website visitors follows on a given site, presented in the order viewed. [citation needed] A visitor's click path may start within the website or at a separate third party website, often a search engine results page, and it continues as a sequence of successive webpages visited by the user.
For example, Costa Concordia had an article dating back to 2006, but its readership greatly grew on January 13, 2012, the date that its sinking became front page international news. The article had been receiving around 1000 hits a month, but got more than 1,000,000 hits in January 2012. Current, unrelated events.