Week 4

Week 4

1) Looking at the site usage, what does the terms visits, page views and pages/visit mean? What does the bounce rate mean and does it vary much from day to day?

Visits are visits to the site - they are not page-specific A page view occurs every time that page is loaded into a browser. A single person could view the same page and each view would count as a separate page view. A visit on the other hand is essentially a "collection" of page views. Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. It varies quite a lot from day to day.

2) Now look at the traffic sources report. What are the three sources of traffic and where has most of the traffic come from?

Search, referral and direct Most traffic is from referrals (Blog post) , direct for folio spaces



3) What was the most popular web browser used to access the site?

Firefox (Blog-post), explorer (folio spaces)

4) How many countries did visitors to Folio spaces come from and what were the top four countries?

10 altogether, top 4 were UK, Australia, US and Canada


5) Having clicked every possible link on my analytic, make a few comments on (a) What you can track, (b) What you can track over time and (c) What you can’t track.

Later I will post the answers!

6) What do the following terms mean? These are just a few, you may like to add some more and perhaps include them on the Moodle glossary.

High bounce rate - The percentage of people who visit the first page and then leave is quite high 
Cookie – a stream a data transferred between the sites server and the computer the user is using

Hyperlink – a link that take you to another web page when you click on it

Page-view – request for a specific page by a visitor

Session – each time a visitor visits the site

Unique Visitors (or Absolute Unique Visitors) – the amount of individual users that visit a site

URL- web address

Visitor – user of a web site