Tutorial: Understanding Web Traffic (Google Analytics)

Here is a free tutorial/informational article i wrote going over how to read web traffic.

Alot of people create websites and never look at whos looking at their sites and what or where they are going.

This is to help out everyone here who might want to know a little about how to read it and why its so important to know your audience.

Its more of a traffic 101 type thing but here it is.

FlashPaper Article: http://www.revitalizingpixels.com/resources/v3/analytics.swf

Web Article:
http://www.revitalizingpixels.com/resources/v3/googleanalytics.html

Hope you find it useful, but like i said it more for the beginer.
Just trying to give back to the DP community.

Thanks,
-Tim

 

nice article good job!

 

thanks i appreciate it! one of those i feel like writing moments

 

Excellent read, on page 3, rep added.

 

Excellent article. Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

 

thanks mate ...bt can any one explain me the exact diff between

setting up goal and tracking ecommerce transactions? using google analytics

 

great! will you be going any further with this, like going into other areas? i hope so, pm me please in case i miss the post.

rep from me!

-Denise

 

Ya, I just discovered that I can't leave without awstats.
Great article by the way!

 

is there any one who can helpme

 

thanks everyone i really appreciate it.

as for how do you do goal tracking and ecommerce? im working on a new tutorial for that ill let you know.

-Tim

 

Great article! Thanks,as I just began using google analytics.

 

This has helped me alot!

 

nice article rep added...Only if you had released it sooner..took me a while to digg through that old analytics interface to find useful information

 

Thank you!

Yes the interface has changed, i plan on updating it with the current interface and doing a second part going a little more indepth with what you can do with it.