Comments on: Benchmarking site performance can be misleading

By: pmartinez

pmartinez — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:57:29 +0000

Great article. This will help me in explaining to my powers at be that the web has not been McDonalized quite yet…and hopefully never will be so to come up with an apples to apples comparison of our hospital website is impossible. Too many variables. I keep emphasizing we need to focus on identifying our own goals, KPIs, and conversions and stop worrying if someone else has more visitors than us…which of course doesn’t mean they are more successful than us! Probably a good thing GA dropped the benchmarking feature. Again, great article. I’m rather new to GA but have learned a great deal from you and consider your book the GA bible so to speak.

By: Brian Clifton

Brian Clifton — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:05:56 +0000

Vidall: Thanks for the feedback – look out for the second edition – coming soon.

By: Vidall

Vidall — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:31:34 +0000

Brain, i bought your book year ago and it’s like dictionary for me. I back to it every time i need new idea or analytics help.

By: neha

neha — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:22:44 +0000

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By: sportnahrung

sportnahrung — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:46:34 +0000

I agree with the point that if you are a Google Analytics user, your reports would show one conversion and two transactions, as the visitor has converted to a customer and this can happen only once during their session.Benchmarking sites are more useful and come on high page-ranking.But due to several reasons, there is problem in traffic hit ratio which results in less outcomes compare to the previous year’s ratio and index.I want to know the main cause of root of the lower down ratio.