Complete Analytics Part I: Are You Oversimplifying?

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What sources of data represent the complete user experience of a customer who visits your site and completes a purchase?

You might be surprised to learn that there are numerous such sources – all of which are valid in their own right. There’s a myriad awaiting anyone who has been too narrow while taking to task the organism of site analysis and it’s many-pronged corpus of data.

So, then how do you best categorize such data so that you can utilize it? And, how do you then capture and learn from the data from each category? Here’s an answer you will probably not want to hear, but one that attempts to reflect the state of analytics as it pertains to your web site and it’s users.

5 Identifiable and distinct categories might be defined in the span of user experience or customer lifetime:

Category | Segment Tools | Methods
Competitive intelligence Compete, Hitwise, Technorati, Alexa, Google Trends, Websitegrader.com, spyfu, trellian.com, keywordspy.com, Yelp!, industry publications such as those by Delloite, Jupiter Metrics and various consumer review media
Voice of Customer Software solutions: iPerceptions, Omniture Surey, OpinionLab, ForeSee and Ethnio. Clicktales.com. Market Research: pre-existing or commissioned. Usabiltiy studies. Observation. Focus groups.
Experiment & Testing Google Website Optimizer, Optimost, Sitespect, Offermatica, Amadesa, Omniture
Analytics Aggregation ForeSee, iPerceptions
Clickstream Google Analytics,Websidestory, Omniture, Coremetrics

If thought one analytics tool was enough, think again. We’ll cover more specifics in the next post.

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One Response to “Complete Analytics Part I: Are You Oversimplifying?”

  1. Lasse says:
    June 16, 2010 at 3:59 pm

    Sorry for commenting this 6 months old post. But I’d strongly recommend the tool http://mouseflow.com for remote usability testing. More or less the same features as ClickTale, but much more affordable.

    Lasse

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