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Web Analytics Evaluation

Anna Feldman, Brianna Casas, Katherine DuVal,

Medhaswi Paturu, Victoria Haber

May 8, 2023

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Team

Anna Feldman

Data Analytics & Visualization

Brianna Casas

Museums and Digital Culture

Katherine Duval

Museums and Digital Culture

Medhaswi Paturu

Information Experience Design

Victoria Haber

Information Experience Design

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Table of Contents

Introduction

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02

Methodology

03

Findings & Recommendations

04

Dashboard Demo

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Introduction

Research Objectives

  • Identifying most popular event/course subjects and products
  • Assessing possibilities to expand target audience demographics
  • Mapping out user journeys upon visiting the landing page
  • Transitioning from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

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Methodology

#2 - Analyzed

#1 - Interviewed

#3- Visualized

#4 - Digested

Explored data in GA to identify key findings.

Interviewed Smithsonian Associates to understand research objectives.

Created charts, graphs & dashboards to communicate trends revealed.

Built data-driven recommendations in our four key focus areas into a written report

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Landing Page Experience

Key Finding #2

Key Finding #1

Higher bounce rate on mobile compared to tablet and desktop users, alongside a higher purchase rate for tablet and desktop users.

Top landing pages are also top exit pages.

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Landing Page Experience

Key Finding #1

Users enter and leave through the same pages.

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Landing Page Experience

Key Finding #1

continued

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Landing Page Experience

Key Finding #2

Mobile devices have a higher bounce rate vs tablet & desktop

Tablet and Desktop Traffic are high revenue generators when compared to Mobile

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Landing Page Experience

Recommendation #1

Recommendation #2

Improve landing page content by conducting audience research and user testing.

Responsive design for mobile and simplify

the purchase process on mobile devices.

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Product Performance

Key Finding #2

Key Finding #1

Key Finding #3

The top three revenue earning products were identified as

Circle of support, Contributor, Associate, La Grande Fete 2023

Top revenue earning products outside of donor-based products are courses under the Art & Architecture category

All product interest groups have consistent engagement rates, which does not reflect equally in conversions

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Product Performance

Key Finding #1

The top three revenue earning products were identified as

Circle of support, Contributor, Associate, La Grande Fete 2023 which are all membership or special event focused categories.

* (not set) represents membership generated revenue

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Product Performance

Key Finding #2

Top revenue earning products outside of donor-based products are courses under the Art & Architecture category, with the highest earning over $7,000.

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Product Performance

Key Finding #3

All product interest groups have consistent engagement rates, which does not reflect equally in conversions

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Product Performance

Recommendation #1

Recommendation #2

Narrow down the segmented audiences strategically based on user behavior and demographics. Feature personalized course recommendations for users.

Featuring the courses on different parts of the website, and promotion on social media might help build more traction to these courses.

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Acquisition and E-Commerce

Key Finding #1

Customer acquisition through paid search accounts for the highest e-commerce conversion rate among all traffic channels. Organic search has the second highest e-commerce conversion rate, but the drop-off is significant.

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Acquisition and E-Commerce

Key Finding #2

Email acquisition generates the most users, sessions, and total revenue. Direct traffic is just behind, and accounts for a slightly higher percentage of new users and e-commerce conversion rate.

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Acquisition and E-Commerce

Key Finding #3

Wiland Display and Wiland Facebook have the highest bounce rates (96.32% and 84.28%, respectively.

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Acquisition and E-Commerce

Recommendation #2

Recommendation #1

Recommendation #3

Invest more in paid search.

Increase email marketing campaigns. Investigate the source of direct traffic further to determine how it can be minimized and how the users reflected in direct traffic can be properly tracked.

Consider moving away from marketing associated with Wiland Display and Wiland Facebook.

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Purchasing Behavior

Key Finding #2

Key Finding #1

The checkout process produces barriers to completing purchases.

Returning users bring in more value overall than new users.

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Purchasing Behavior

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Purchasing Behavior

Recommendation #1

Simplify the checkout process for all users, particularly addressing those on mobile devices.

VIEW CART

GUEST CHECKOUT

PAYMENT + ADDRESS INFO

DONE

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Purchasing Behavior

Recommendation #2

Capitalize on returning user value through targeted campaigns and create incentives for new user purchases.

Refer

a friend

Early access to programs

Deals & promos

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Transition to GA4

Recommendation #2

Recommendation #1

Recommendation #3

Set up ecommerce tracking in GA4.

Create additional conversions in GA4.

Track unassigned traffic in GA4 using UTM parameters on campaigns.

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Dashboard / UA to GA4