What happened on your website yesterday? What about last week or last month? How about in
past hour? How many visitors come to your website as a result of using a search engine? How long do people stay on your website for on average? Which pages do your visitors go to?If you don't know
answer to some or all of these questions you are effectively operating a website blind.
This is like riding a bike blindfolded and expecting to arrive at
right destination. It's impossible and
likelihood is that you will crash, wreck
bike, lose pride and get left behind.
If you don't know what's happening with your website or how people are using it and how they are finding it how can you hope to ever improve
site? Sure - you can rely on second-guessing or asking
opinion of a handful of people but that's hardly going to give you accurate information on which to base a decision is it?
"Mike - I know what you're saying. It's true that I need to track what's happening but I don't have
X"
X = Money? X = Time? X = Knowledge of where to start? X = Need, as I already do this?
If you answered "Money" - this would seem to be a valid reason but you can get your hands on
basic information about how your site is performing for nothing (ask your developer or web hosting company for starters and they'll be able to point you in
right direction or check out
resources below)
If you answered "Time" - I'm sorry but if that's
case why do you even have a website if you don't have
time to measure how it's performing? Would you behave
same way with your business? Thought not..