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The holy grail of website research Integrating Onsite Survey Data into Google Analytics May 19th Pieter van der Gouwe

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The holy grail of website research

Integrating Onsite Survey Data into Google Analytics

May 19th Pieter van der Gouwe

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• MetrixLab: online market research agency

• Pieter van der Gouwe: eBusiness Performance research

Onsite surveys: Profiling, visitor expectations, success & satisfaction

Usability Testing, Benchmark studies, A/B and concept testing

• MetrixLab relation with Google:

Extensive Research partner

Research contest EMEA

Introduction

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Web analytics & Web surveys Until yesterday: two separate worlds

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The world of web analytics: what you all know

All necessary and extremely valuable, but…

# unique visitors

# page views

Time spend on the website

Conversion funnels

Referrers

Bounce rates

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What you don’t know

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Other questions you might have

• What do they expect when landing on your website?

• What is their main reason for visiting?

• Are they successful & satisfied?

• What are they planning to do next?

Answer: ask your visitor

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The world of Web Surveys

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The visitors’ perspective

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Questions at arrival and when leaving

At arrival

• Expectations

• Reason for visiting

When leaving

• Success & satisfaction

• Evaluating user experience

• Profile

• What’s next?

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Connecting both worlds

Onsite survey (WPM©)

What, where & when?

- Visited pages

- Time spend

- Page views

- Conversion ratio’s

- Onsite search usage

Who, why & what's next?

- Visitor profiles

- Expectations

- Success and satisfaction

- Suggestions

- And now?

Everything you have always wanted to know about your website visitors

INTEGRATING

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What does it look like in GA?

• Stukje voorbeeld van hoe het werkt!

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User case: Campaign on TV driving traffic to

TV commercial

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Result: boost in direct traffic …

Yeah!

But did we reach our

target audience?

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… but only partly within the target audience

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Let’s bust one Myth…

What about it?

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How does it work technically?

1. Implement ML Onsite Survey

2. Create a folder, eg: www.domain.nl/integration or

www.domain.nl/metrixlab or ...

3. Upload ‘ml_ganalytics.asp’ and some other files (to be delivered by

MetrixLab) into ‘/integration’ folder

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What visitor profiles

did we attract during

our paid search

campaign?

Compared with organic

search?

Where are these

visitors in the

customer life cycle?

Evaluate search campaigns…

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…understand whý visitors leave conversion funnels

Who is leaving?

Why are they leaving?

What’s next?

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Insights per channel…

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Understand effect of specific pages …

Which pages lead to unsuccessful visits?

Which pages contribute most to the brand?

Do target audiences visit sections specifically created for them?

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… and evaluate campaign websites

Reached target group?

Who is visiting what?

Compare user segments with TV segments

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Where did we realize a

positive change in

knowledge, attitude and

behaviour?

Measure change in knowledge, attitude & behaviour

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Key Take Out

Provides you with all the context needed:

- to articulate online strategies

- to invest in what’s needed the most

- to optimize your website

What, When,

and where

Who, Why and

What’s next?)

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End Slide

Thank you for participating!

Questions?

Pieter van der Gouwe

+ 31 (0) 62 436 54 15 Mobile

[email protected]