Website Journal Week 1! My Google Analytics Results!

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Dear fans and readers,

After one week being online with my website, I have the first Google Analytics Results with the visitor and sessions information. I like to analyze this and discuss it with you.

I have to add, that the website still needs improvements, content mistakes, more content needs to be posted to categories being empty, some links that are not setup correctly and from what I discovered, the sitemap is not uploaded to Google yet and the Robot.tx contains invalid entries.

Furthermore I need to update my pages and enable them for AMP as Google indictated my website is not AMP, although it runs as AMP due to the plugin I use.

So in the above picture we can see how I have ranked for the last 7 days, the organic search is from the front page only and all other traffic came in through social media. This should give you a reminder how powerful and important these platforms are.

The peek in the beginning you see is the day of launching. I promote my website and articles through social media everyday and since yesterday my live page in Facebook is active as well.

I also started with requesting website comments through Wealthy Affiliate, if you are interested, have a look as there are still articles available you can read and give your comments too and earn your WA credits. :)

Bounce Rate looks high, anyone who can give me their insight to that?


Are my values good for week one?


In this graphic we can see where the traffic is coming from:

  • Facebook: 30
  • Twitter: 13
  • Google+: 15
  • Pinterest: 1
  • Old returning visitors: 109
  • New visitors: 128
  • Direct traffic:138
  • Referrals: 96
  • Organic: 3

Can someone explain me what referrals are?

In this overview, we can see that there is a growing amount of people using big screens in high resolution.

Mobile is quite large as well, lead by Apple and close behind Android.

The most used browser is Chrome.

The most used operating system is Windows.


And here we can see that I had visitors from all over the world, wow, awesome.

So how are my statistics, where can I improve and for those of you who have the experience already, please explain the values and what you think of it.

Let's discuss.


Stefan, ToLiNoLi

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Love the stats and visuals! Thanks for sharing!

Referral traffic is reporting visits that came to your site from sources outside of search engine or directly entering in your website name. Social media and WA are usually captured as referral traffic because they start on social or WA and get referred to your site. Hope this helps.

Hi Kim,

Then it can be social media only as I have no links from my website here within WA. Wow cool, that is very positive as this means people are really interested in what I do. :))

I would almost say social media is more powerful as Google search engine, or at least will be one day.

Have a great day.
Stefan ToLiNoLi :0)

Social media can definitely be powerful for traffic. Next time you are in Google Analytics, click into referral traffic. You will actually get a list of websites where the traffic came from. So if you are promoting on multiple social networks, you will be able to see what network is sending most traffic.

Great idea Kim,

I will include that in my next blog post week 2, then we can see that too and analyze it.

Thanks, good tip.

Stefan, ToLiNoLi

Great progress Stefan!

Thanks Mark :)

Hi Stefan, I think for a first week these numbers look really good considering you just started. I must be missing something where do you find this data and graphs to show? Is this offered in WA? These graphs are really great information.

Hey Judson,

Stefan clearly states that these charts and data are from his Google Analytics account.

Hope this helps you.

Yesterday was impressive, but we need to continue working on the website and social media, I might have a shortcut to reach goals faster, who knows. :))

Hi Stefan - Great numbers for week 1!

Each niche is different, but your bounce rate looks very good to me. Mine is twice that, so I have some work to do.

Are you using any paid advertising on social media or promoting organically?

The reason I ask is that I may be headed towards paid, as I'm not getting any lift organically.

Also, did you build the report above as a custom report in GA? I don't recognize it, particularly all the options at the top. If you did, nice work.

Patrick

Hi Patrick,

Thank you, that is good to hear. :))

My premium SEO plugin has that included, so I can check my statistics any moment of the day, it links to Google Analytics. Very helpful. :))

All traffic is organic, no paid adds, for that it is far too early. I will work with Facebook adds later, for a special campaign.

My current stats for today is 33 sessions with 26 users and 63 page views, looks like my statistics are going up.

I like to see what happens after my sitemap with all content got indexed. :))

Cheers,
Stefan

Great illustration Stefan.
Easy to read and understand
Well explained

One thing i miss is referrals from other sites...

Thank you Fleeky,

That is because my content is not indexed with Google yet.

All traffic and referrals are coming from the social media platforms.

Can you explain me what those referrals are?

Stefan

My site referring to yours...

Wow I must be famous then that within 7 days I have 96 other websites linking to mine...

Are you sure about that?

Is there something like a referral link from social media out possible?

All kinds off.
Best is site referrals...other sites

But how? I am just online for a week? Aliens or awesome Penguins? lol :P

Who knows...

You? :)

That's great, Stefan.

Thank you Roger, so what do you think of my results and are those bounce rates not to high?

Congrats on your achievement

Thank you Louis, much appreciated.

Congratulations Stefan for this achievement
I really love Google analytics. It is amazing!

Hello Rania,

Thank you.

How are your results, can you say something about my results by comparing hem?

Stefan

WOW!! That looks interesting but it's mind boggling. I think I need to have a fresh look tomorrow. Jim

Hi Jim,

Great, let's analyze and find out how I did and where I can improve.

Stefan

Very informative, I am just starting to understand how powerful google analytics really is.

Thank you for sharing
Jennifer

Thank you Jennifer,

I am just starting to learn it myself and it will be great to hear what others can teach us about it.

Stefan

Yes you are right. I think that there is a lot of info here on this subject so check out the helpful blogs here.
Regards
Have a great weekend and wishing you much success here
Jennfer

Thank you Jennifer,

Wishing you the same, let's learn from this, I will post week 2 next week and then we can see if my improvements had any impact, this is a good strategy we all can learn from.

Enjoy your sunny weekend too. Looking forward to what you will build. :)

Stefan

Yes we can

How is it going Jennifer?

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