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  • How to Conduct a Customer Journey Analysis (Step-by-Step)

    9 mai 2024, par Erin

    Your customers are everything.

    Treat them right, and you can generate recurring revenue for years. Treat them wrong ; you’ll be spinning your wheels and dealing with churn.

    How do you give your customers the best experience possible so they want to stick around ?

    Improve their customer experience.

    How ?

    By conducting a customer journey analysis.

    When you know how your customers experience your business, you can improve it to meet and exceed customer expectations.

    In this guide, we’ll break down how the customer journey works and give you a step-by-step guide to conduct a thorough customer journey analysis so you can grow your brand.

    What is a customer journey analysis ?

    Every customer you’ve ever served went on a journey to find you.

    From the moment they first heard of you, to the point that they became a customer. 

    Everything in between is the customer journey.

    A customer journey analysis is how you track and analyse how your customers use different channels to interact with your brand.

    What is a customer journey analysis?

    Analysing your customer journey involves identifying the customer’s different touchpoints with your business so you can understand how it impacts their experience. 

    This means looking at every moment they interacted with your brand before, during and after a sale to help you gain actionable insights into their experience and improve it to reach your business objectives.

    Your customers go through specific customer touchpoints you can track. By analysing this customer journey from a bird’s eye view, you can get a clear picture of the entire customer experience.

    4 benefits of customer journey analysis

    Before we dive into the different steps involved in a customer journey analysis, let’s talk about why it’s vital to analyse the customer journey.

    By regularly analysing your customer journey, you’ll be able to improve the entire customer experience with practical insights, allowing you to :

    Understand your customers better

    What’s one key trait all successful businesses have ?

    They understand their customers.

    By analysing your customer journey regularly, you’ll gain new insights into their wants, needs, desires and behaviours, allowing you to serve them better. These insights will show you what led them to buy a product (or not).

    For example, through conducting a customer journey analysis, a company might find out that customers who come from LinkedIn are more likely to buy than those coming from Facebook.

    Find flaws in your customer journey

    Nobody wants to hear they have flaws. But the reality is your customer journey likely has a few flaws you could improve.

    By conducting customer journey analysis consistently, you’ll be able to pinpoint precisely where you’re losing prospects along the way. 

    For example, you may discover you’re losing customers through Facebook Ads. Or you may find your email strategy isn’t as good as it used to be.

    But it’s not just about the channel. It could be a transition between two channels. For example, you may have great engagement on Instagram but are not converting them into email subscribers. The issue may be that your transition between the two channels has a leak.

    Or you may find that prospects using certain devices (i.e., mobile, tablet, desktop) have lower conversions. This might be due to design and formatting issues across different devices.

    By looking closely at your customer journey and the different customer touchpoints, you’ll see issues preventing prospects from turning into leads or customers from returning to buy again as loyal customers.

    Gain insights into how you can improve your brand

    Your customer journey analysis won’t leave you with a list of problems. Instead, you’ll have a list of opportunities.

    Since you’ll be able to better understand your customers and where they’re falling off the sales funnel, you’ll have new insights into how you can improve the experience and grow your brand.

    For example, maybe you notice that your visitors are getting stuck at one stage of the customer journey and you’re trying to find out why.

    So, you leverage Matomo’s heatmaps, sessions recordings and scroll depth to find out more.

    In the case below, we can see that Matomo’s scroll map is showing that only 65% of the visitors are reaching the main call to action (to write a review). 

    Scroll depth screenshot in Matomo displaying lack of clicks to CTA button

    To try to push for higher conversions and get more reviews, we could consider moving that button higher up on the page, ideally above the fold.

    Rather than guessing what’s preventing conversions, you can use user behaviour analytics to “step in our user’s shoes” so you can optimise faster and with confidence.

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    Grow your revenue

    By taking charge of your customer journey, you can implement different strategies that will help you increase your reach, gain more prospects, convert more prospects into customers and turn regulars into loyal customers.

    Using customer journey analysis will help you optimise those different touchpoints to maximise the ROI of your channels and get the most out of each marketing activity you implement.

    7 steps to conduct a customer journey analysis

    Now that you know the importance of conducting a customer journey analysis regularly, let’s dive into how to implement an analysis.

    Here are the seven steps you can take to analyse the customer journey to improve your customer experience :

    7 steps to conduct a customer journey analysis.

    1. Map out your customer journey

    Your first step to conducting an effective customer journey analysis is to map your entire customer journey.

    Customer journey mapping means looking at several factors :

    • Buying process
    • Customer actions
    • Buying emotions
    • Buying pain points
    • Solutions

    Once you have an overview of your customer journey maps, you’ll gain insights into your customers, their interests and how they interact with your brand. 

    After this, it’s time to dive into the touchpoints.

    2. Identify all the customer touchpoints 

    To improve your customer journey, you need to know every touchpoint a customer can (and does) make with your brand.

    This means taking note of every single channel and medium they use to communicate with your brand :

    • Website
    • Social media
    • Search engines (SEO)
    • Email marketing
    • Paid advertising
    • And more

    Essentially, anywhere you communicate and interact with your customers is fair game to analyse.

    If you want to analyse your entire sales funnel, you can try Matomo, a privacy-friendly web analytics tool. 

    You should make sure to split up your touchpoints into different customer journey stages :

    • Awareness
    • Consideration
    • Conversion
    • Advocacy

    Then, it’s time to move on to how customers interact on these channels.

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    3. Measure how customers interact on each channel

    To understand the customer journey, you can’t just know where your customers interact with you. You end up learning how they’re interacting.

    This is only possible by measuring customer interactions.

    How ?

    By using a web analytics tool like Matomo.

    With Matomo, you can track every customer action on your website.

    This means anytime they :

    • Visit your website
    • View a web page
    • Click a link
    • Fill out a form
    • Purchase a product
    • View different media
    • And more

    You should analyse your engagement on your website, apps and other channels, like email and social media.

    4. Implement marketing attribution

    Now that you know where your customers are and how they interact, it’s time to analyse the effectiveness of each channel based on your conversion rates.

    Implementing marketing attribution (or multi-touch attribution) is a great way to do this.

    Attribution is how you determine which channels led to a conversion.

    While single-touch attribution models credit one channel for a conversion, marketing attribution gives credit to a few channels.

    For example, let’s say Bob is looking for a new bank. He sees an Instagram post and finds himself on HSBC’s website. After looking at a few web pages, he attends a webinar hosted by HSBC on financial planning and investment strategies. One week later, he gets an email from HSBC following up on the webinar. Then, he decides to sign up for HSBC’s online banking.

    Single touch attribution would attribute 100% of the conversion to email, which doesn’t show the whole picture. Marketing attribution would credit all channels : social media, website content, webinars and email.

    Matomo offers multiple attribution models. These models leverage different weighting factors, like time decay or linear, so that you can allocate credit to each touchpoint based on its impact.

    Matomo’s multi-touch attribution reports give you in-depth insights into how revenue is distributed across different channels. These detailed reports help you analyse each channel’s contribution to revenue generation so you can optimise the customer journey and improve business outcomes.

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    5. Use a funnels report to find where visitors are leaving

    Once you set up your marketing attribution, it’s time to analyse where visitors are falling off.

    You can leverage Matomo funnels to find out the conversion rate at each step of the journey on your website. Funnel reports can help you see exactly where visitors are falling through the cracks so you can increase conversions.

    6. Analyse why visitors aren’t converting

    Once you can see where visitors are leaving, you can start to understand why.

    For example, let’s say you analyse your funnels report in Matomo and see your landing page is experiencing the highest level of drop-offs.

    Screenshot of Forms Overview report in Matomo's Form Analytics feature

    You can also use form analytics to find out why users aren’t converting on your landing pages – a crucial part of the customer journey.

    7. A/B test to improve the customer journey

    The final step to improve your customer journey is to conduct A/B tests. These are tests where you test one version of a landing page to see which one converts better, drives more traffic, or generates more revenue.

    For example, you could create two versions of a header on your website and drive 50% of your traffic to each version. Then, once you’ve got your winner, you can keep that as your new landing page.

    Screenshot of A/B testing report in Matomo

    Using the data from your A/B tests, you can optimise your customer journey to help convert more prospects into customers.

    Use Matomo to improve your customer journey analysis

    Now that you understand why it’s important to conduct customer journey analysis regularly and how it works, it’s time to put this into practice.

    To improve the customer journey, you need to understand what’s happening at each stage of your funnel. 

    Matomo gives you insights into your customer journey so you can improve website performance and convert more visitors into customers.

    Used by over 1 million websites, Matomo is the leading privacy-friendly web analytics solution in the world. 

    Matomo provides you with accurate, unsampled data so you understand exactly what’s going on with your website performance.

    The best part ?

    It’s easy to use and is compliant with the strictest privacy regulations.

    Try Matomo free for 21-days and start Improving your customer journey. No credit card required.

  • iOS 17’s Impact on Marketing : Navigating Privacy Changes

    22 septembre 2023, par Erin — Analytics Tips, Marketing

    In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, staying up-to-date with the latest changes is paramount. One such significant change came on 18 September 2023, in the form of iOS 17, Apple’s latest operating system update. With iOS 17, Apple has introduced new privacy features that are set to have a profound impact on marketers and how they track and analyse user behaviour. 

    In this blog, we will explore what iOS 17 is, how it affects tracking, which tracking parameters are impacted, what remains unaffected, and most importantly, how marketers can future-proof their campaign tracking URLs.

    What is iOS 17 ?

    iOS 17 is the latest update to Apple’s mobile operating system, used on millions of iPhones worldwide. While iOS updates often bring new features and improvements, iOS 17 has made waves in the digital marketing community due to its emphasis on user privacy.

    How does iOS 17 affect tracking ?

    One of the key features of iOS 17 that concerns marketers is its impact on tracking. Apple’s new update aims to enhance user privacy by limiting the information that can be tracked and collected by third-party entities, particularly through query parameters in URLs. This means that certain tracking mechanisms that marketers have relied on for years are now rendered ineffective on iOS 17 devices.

    Campaign tracking URLs, also known as tracking parameters or UTM parameters, are special codes added to the end of URLs. They are used by marketers to track various aspects of a user’s interaction with a digital marketing campaign. These parameters provide valuable data, such as the source of traffic, the medium through which users arrived and specific campaign details.

    For example, with Matomo (mtm) tracking parameters, a campaign tracking URL might look like this :

    https://www.example.com/products/example_product?mtm_campaign=summer-sale

    Generated Campaign URL

    Understanding the impact of iOS 17 on campaign tracking URLs is essential for marketers who rely on this data to measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns.

    Which campaign tracking parameters are affected by iOS 17 ?

    Several tracking parameters commonly used by marketers will no longer work as expected on iOS 17. Some of these include :

    • Facebook (fbclid) : Employed for tracking Facebook advertising campaigns. 
    • Instagram (igshid) : Used to track user interactions with Instagram ads.
    • Google Ads (gclid) : Used to track Google Ads campaigns. 
    • Twitter (twclid) : Used to track user interactions with Twitter ads. 
    • Microsoft Ads (msclkid) : Employed for tracking Microsoft Ads campaigns. 
    • Mailchimp (mc_eid) : Used by Mailchimp for email campaign tracking. 

    These changes are significant, as they disrupt many of the common tracking methods that marketers rely on to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns.

    Which campaign tracking parameters are not affected by iOS 17 ?

    While many tracking parameters have been impacted, there are still some that remain unaffected on iOS 17. However, it’s important to note that the status of these parameters might change in the future as Apple continues to prioritise user privacy. Some of the tracking parameters that are still working as of now include :

    • Matomo (mtm) : Matomo campaign tracking parameters. 
    • Google Analytics (UTMs) : Google Analytics campaign tracking parameters.
    • Pinterest (epik) : Used for tracking Pinterest campaigns. 
    • Klaviyo (_kx) : Klaviyo for email marketing tracking. 
    • TikTok (tt-) : Used for tracking TikTok ad interactions. 
    • Hubspot (hsa) : Used for tracking Hubspot campaigns. 

    While these parameters offer some reprieve for marketers, it’s essential to keep a close eye on any potential changes in their functionality as Apple continues to roll out privacy-friendly features.

    How are Matomo users impacted ?

    Fortunately, Matomo, as a leading privacy-friendly web analytics solution, remains unaffected by the changes introduced by iOS 17. Specifically :

    For Matomo users who rely on mtm or UTMs

    If you’re using Matomo or GA tracking parameters, you can rest assured that iOS 17’s changes won’t affect your tracking capabilities in Matomo.

    Attention to gclids (Google Ads) and msclkid (Bing Ads)

    If you use Google Ads or Bing Ads tracking parameters with Matomo’s Advertising Conversion Export feature for tracking, iOS 17 presents a challenge. Your gclids and msclkids may not provide the same level of tracking accuracy on Apple mobile devices. This is a critical consideration, especially if your ad campaigns target mobile users.

    To stay informed about changes in the digital marketing landscape, including updates related to iOS 17, sign up for our newsletter where we regularly provide updates and insights on adapting your tracking and marketing strategies to ensure compliance and respect user privacy.

    How to future-proof your campaign tracking

    Given the impact of iOS 17 on tracking, it’s crucial for marketers to adapt and future-proof their campaign tracking strategies. Here are some steps you can take to mitigate the affects of iOS 17 on your marketing campaigns :

    Monitor platform updates

    Expect updates from advertising and analytics platforms in response to Apple’s privacy changes. These platforms are likely to develop alternative tracking methods or adapt existing ones to comply with iOS 17’s restrictions. Stay informed about these updates and incorporate them into your tracking strategy.

    Prioritise privacy-friendly tech stacks

    In the ever-evolving digital marketing landscape, it’s crucial to prioritise privacy-friendly tech stacks. Privacy-friendly tracking tools like Matomo are essential for maintaining trust and respecting user privacy.

    Matomo ensures the privacy of your users and analytics data. When using Matomo, you retain control of your data ; nobody else does. This commitment to user privacy aligns with the changing digital marketing landscape, where privacy is taking centre stage.

    Transition from affected campaign tracking parameters

    If you’ve been using tools like Mailchimp, whose campaign tracking URLs have been affected by iOS 17, consider transitioning to the campaign tracking URL parameters of your analytics solution. Whether you choose Matomo or Google Analytics, these solutions can help you understand how your email marketing campaigns are performing.

    Focus on data privacy compliance

    Embrace data privacy compliance practices. As privacy regulations evolve, it’s essential to prioritise transparency in data collection. Ensure that your tracking methods align with privacy standards to maintain trust with your audience.

    Regularly review and adapt

    The digital marketing landscape is dynamic, and iOS 17 is just one example of how quickly things can change. Regularly review your tracking methods and adapt to new developments in the industry. Staying agile and informed is key to long-term success.

    Marketers’ path forward

    iOS 17 has reshaped mobile user privacy, challenging marketers to adapt. While some tracking parameters are affected, savvy marketers can still thrive by embracing unique tracking solutions, staying informed about platform updates, and prioritising data privacy. 

    Explore Matomo for privacy-friendly analytics and navigate this evolving landscape successfully with our 21-day free trial – no credit card required. 

  • Increasing Website Traffic : 11 Tips To Attract Visitors

    25 août 2023, par Erin — Analytics Tips, Marketing

    For your website and business to succeed, you need to focus on building traffic.

    However, you aren’t the only one with that goal in mind.

    There are millions of other websites trying to increase their traffic as well. With that much competition, it’s important to make sure your website stands out. Accomplishing that can require a great deal of strategy.

    We’ve compiled a list of tips to help you develop a solid plan for increasing website traffic, to expand your reach, grow your audience and boost customer engagement levels — creating more opportunities for your business.Using these tips, more visitors will find their way to your website — meaning more customers for your business.

    Why is website traffic important ?

    Website traffic is essentially the number of people visiting your website. When someone lands on your site, they’re considered a visitor and increase your website traffic. 

    When your website traffic is high, you’ll get more clicks, customer interactions and brand engagement. As a result, search engines will have a positive impression of your website and send more people there, meaning even more people will see your content and have the opportunity to buy your product.

    When using a website for your business or any other venture, tracking your website traffic using a web analytics solution like Matomo is critical.

    A screenshot of Matomo's Visits Dashboard

    With over 200 million actively maintained and visited websites in 2023, it’s important to make sure yours stands out if you want to increase your website traffic and grow your online presence. 

    11 tips for increasing website traffic

    Here are 11 tips to increase your organic traffic and elevate your business.

    1. Perfect your SEO

    Optimising your website to show up in search engine results shouldn’t be overlooked, as 63% of consumers start researching a product by using a search engine. Search engine optimisation, or SEO, increases the visibility and discoverability of your website on search engine results pages (SERPs). SEO targets organic searches, which means it doesn’t add to social media traffic, direct traffic or referrals, and it isn’t paid traffic.

    SEO is number one on this list for a reason — most of these tips will directly, or indirectly, improve your SEO efforts. 

    Steps to improve your search engine optimisation can include :

    • Using relevant keywords that are incorporated naturally throughout your content
    • Using a web analytics tool like Matomo, with its search keyword feature, to gain insights and identify opportunities for improvement
    • Using descriptive meta titles and meta descriptions
    • Link to your own content internally with descriptive anchor tags, and make sure unused pages are removed 
    • Keeping your target audience in mind and marketing your content toward them
    • Making sure your website’s structure is optimised to be mobile-friendly, fast and responsive — such as with Matomo’s SEO Web Vitals feature, which monitors key metrics like your website’s page speed and loading performance, pivotal for optimising search engine results

    2. Research the competition

    It’s important to remember that while your business might be unique, it’s likely not the only one in its field. Thousands of other websites from other companies are also looking to improve their website traffic and increase sales, and you have to outcompete them.

    Looking at what your competitors are doing is vital from a strategic perspective. You can see what their content looks like, how they’re framing their specific use cases and what target audience they’re marketing toward.

    Knowing what your competitors are doing can help you find ways to improve your content and make it unique. Are your competitors missing a specific use case or neglecting a particular audience ? Fill in their content gaps on your website, and pick up the traffic they’re missing.

    3. Create high-quality, evergreen content

    If your content is high-quality, visitors will read more of it and stay longer on your site. This obviously increases the likelihood they will purchase your product or service, and it tells search engines that your website is a good answer for a search query.

    High-quality content will also be shared more often, leading to even more website traffic. You should aim to develop content that doesn’t lose relevance over time (aka “evergreen content”). If you include time-sensitive data, statistics or content in your website, blog posts or articles, it’ll be relevant only around that time frame. 

    While this month’s viral content is highly popular, it likely won’t be relevant in a few months. Instead, if you ensure your content is evergreen, it will continue to get engagement long after it’s published.

    4. Implement creative visuals

    It’s important to have engaging, fun and interactive media on your website to keep visitors on your site longer. Like good content, interesting visuals (and the resulting longer visits) can translate to more purchases (and favourable assessments by search engines).

    A screenshot of Matomo's Media Dashboard

    Media can take the form of videos, infographics, images or web graphics. 

    With Matomo’s Media Analytics feature, you can automatically gain even deeper insights into how your visitors engage with your media content, enhancing your understanding of their preferences and behaviours.

    If you have interesting, captivating visuals, visitors will be more likely to stay on your website longer and see what you have to offer. Without captivating visuals to break up walls of text, you’ll likely find visitors will tend to leave your site in favour of something more engaging.

    Just make sure you design your visuals with your target audience in mind. Flashy, fun graphics might not be a good fit for a professional audience, but they’re great for younger audiences. If you get your audience correct, they may also share the images with others. Depending on your business, that might be a useful infographic shared across LinkedIn, or a picture of a clever use case shared on Pinterest. 

    As a bonus, if other companies use your graphics on their websites, that earns you some backlinks — more on those in a bit.

    5. Create a comprehensive knowledge base

    Having a knowledge base is critical to making sure your service or product is well understood and well documented, especially in the tech industry. If a visitor or potential customer is interested in your product or service, they need to know exactly what it will do for them and that they have a good foundation of support in case they need help. A knowledge base is also a good place for internal links (more on those in a bit).

    Visitors can also use your knowledge base as a source of information, and if they cite you as a source, that’ll lead right back to more website traffic for you (see our backlinks section for more about this). If your website is a good source of information, visitors will come back to it again and again.

    6. Use social media often and consistently

    Digital marketing nowadays heavily relies on social media platforms. Having an online presence no longer means just having a website — if you’re not using social media sites, you’re missing out on a huge portion of potential visitors and customers.

    A strong social media presence with profiles on platforms like Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram or LinkedIn can be invaluable for increasing your website traffic. Visitors to your social media profiles will click on regularly shared content, read your blog posts and possibly become customers.

    Participating in relevant communities and networking with other companies in groups in your industry can also be invaluable. If you participate in online communities and forums for your niche, you can offer insight, answer questions and plug your website. All of this will increase your clicks, which will increase your website traffic.

    If you’ve managed to build your own community on social media, make sure to keep them engaged ! Implementing your own forum, hosting live chats and Q&As, offering helpful and engaging content will make sure visitors keep coming back and spreading the word. 

    7. Use email marketing or newsletters

    Having an email list and sending marketing emails or newsletters is a great way to increase website traffic. You can offer exclusive content, and promise discounts or resources to your subscribers for when they return to your website. This will help keep your loyal audience engaged, entice new customers to subscribe to your newsletter, give you a chance to upsell to people who have already expressed an interest in your product and potentially convert curious subscribers into customers.

    8. Make sure your content can earn backlinks

    A backlink is when a website links to a different website — ideally using relevant anchor text — and it’s an effective strategy for increasing referral traffic, that is, visitors who get to your website via a link on another website. The more backlinks you have, the more your referral traffic will increase. Social share buttons make it easy for people to cite you on social platforms, too. 

    We’ve already talked about making expert content that’s link-worthy, but also make sure that you’re creating linkable assets (like those interesting visuals mentioned earlier), building relationships with other sites that will link to you (like by inviting an expert or influencer to write on your page and promote it from their platform, or by writing your own guest content for their sites) and sharing your own content. All of this can help increase your referral traffic, particularly when you’re linked from websites with a higher domain authority than you have.

    You can also make sure your website is listed in online directories. Some sites will do interviews and roundups, as well — these are great opportunities to increase your backlinks.

    9. Optimise your CTR

    Click-through rate, or CTR, is the percentage of users who click on specific links to your website. A high CTR means your visitors are following a link — whether in an advertisement, a search result or a social media post — and a low CTR means they’re passing it by. Optimising your CTR can greatly improve your website traffic.

    To improve CTR, identify successful elements such as copy, imagery, and offers in your ads, enabling you to amplify effective elements and minimise less impactful ones.

    10. Ensure your website is responsive and mobile-friendly

    If a visitor is frustrated by your site being slow, laggy, clunky or not mobile-friendly, they won’t stay long. That doesn’t look good to search engines if that’s how your visitors got there. Your website needs to be clean, responsive, user-friendly and accessible.

    If your website is slow, try increasing your website’s performance by :

    • Optimising images : Reduce the size of images and compress them for faster load times. Opt for JPEG format for photos and PNG format for graphics. 
    • Limit the use of plugins : If you are using a CMS like WordPress, consider removing plugins that are unnecessary or not essential.
    • Embrace lazy loading : To further enhance site speed and reduce initial load times, set up your site to load images and content only as visitors scroll down. Prioritising the content and images at the top of the page makes the site feel faster. Some CMS platforms will offer this option, but others may require a bit of coding to set this up. 

    Many people rely on their phones to research services or products, especially if they’re doing a quick search. Make sure your website is friendly to mobile users. It should scale vertically and scroll smoothly so users aren’t frustrated when using your site. They should be able to find the info they need immediately without any technical issues.

    11. Track your website’s metrics

    As you test out each of these strategies to increase your web traffic, don’t forget to closely analyse the performance of your site. To truly understand the impact of your efforts, you’ll need a reliable web analytics solution. Think of a dependable web analytics solution as your website’s GPS. Without it, you’d be lost, unsure of your direction and missing out on valuable insights to steer your growth.

    Matomo is a powerful web analytics tool that can help you do just that by providing information on your site visitors and campaign performance, complemented by an array of behavioural analytics features that delve into user interactions. Among these, our heatmap feature stands out, enabling greater insights into user interactions and optimisation of your site’s effectiveness.

    Screenshot of Matomo heatmap feature

    Google Analytics is another powerful analytics option, though it has challenges with data accuracy ; there are multiple other web analytics solutions as well.

    Regardless of what web analytics solution you choose, the process of analysing your website metrics is incredibly important for identifying areas of improvement to increase website traffic.

    Increasing your web traffic is a process

    Increasing website traffic isn’t something you accomplish overnight. It’s a comprehensive, ongoing endeavour that requires constant analysis and fine-tuning. 

    By applying these tips to create consistent, high-quality content that gets spotlighted on search engines, shared on social media and returned to again and again, you’ll see a steady stream of increased traffic. 

    With Matomo, you can understand your visitor behaviour to see what works and what doesn’t as you work to increase your website traffic. Get your free 21-day trial now. No credit card required.