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USA Rugby -

Potential Financial Supporters

Web Analytics & Heatmap

Team: Olivia Turpin, Shih-Wen Huang, Wuke Zhou, Yuki Shimano

Professor: Craig MacDonald, Ph.D.

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Team Introduction

Olivia Turpin

MS IxD

Shih-Wen Huang

MS IxD

Wuke Zhou

MS IxD

Yuki Shimano

MS IxD

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Agenda

  1. Methodology
  2. Objective & Goals
  3. Profile Overview
  4. Findings & Recommendations
  5. Recap
  6. A/B Test & Infographic

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Tools:

Google Analytics

Analysis of current web data to understand the users’ web usage

Time frame:

Site launch - 02/18/2022

Hotjar Heat Maps

Visualization of # of clicks, mouse movement, and scrolling for the website pages

Time frame:

02/01/2022 - 03/03/2022

A/B Test Plan

Test proposal to compare two variants of the homepage

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Methodology

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Project

Objectives & Goals

Our objective was to better understand the potential financial supporters by looking at where they’re coming from, what content they are interested in and how they engage with it.

Our goal is to provide better insight on ways to ensure that potential financial supporters have a seamless experience with the USA Rugby website.

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Research Questions

Who are the financial supporters (e.g., age, gender, etc.)?

Where are they coming from?

What is their behavior within the USA Rugby website?

How do they interact with financial support-related pages (i.e., Philanthropy & Partners pages)

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Financial Supporters

Profile Overview

They make up 8,269 users

which is 0.2% of total users

GA Segmentation Conditions:.

We defined this microsegment in Google Analytics as users who visited the Philanthropy and/or Partners pages within their browsing session.

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They were 17% more often returning visitors.

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Profile Overview - Potential Financial Supporters

They were 31% more often using desktop.

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Overall Findings

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Lack of strategic data tracking

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Missed opportunities for mobile and certain browsers

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Lack of interest in & traffic to Philanthropy pages

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Finding 1

Lack of strategic

data tracking

  • There is no way to see which users attempted to make a donation or reach out to bmedran@usa.rugby for partnerships
  • There is no note of important events (eg. covid, filing chapter 11) that affected the volume of users coming to the website

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No event tracking set up in Google Analytics

It is hard to understand the decrease in users without tracking influential events

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Recommendation 1

Add event tracking & annotations in Google Analytics

  • Add event tracking for clicks to the donation form link
  • Make the email on the Partners page a hyperlink and add event tracking for clicks
  • Annotate events that influenced the data in Google Analytics

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Annotating tool in the Audience Overview

Example of hyperlinking an email on the Partners page

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Finding 2

Missed opportunities for certain device and browser

2.1 - Philanthropy pages are not optimized on mobile

2.2 - Slow load time for chrome browsers

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Device usage of financial supporters (left) vs. all users (right)

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Finding 2

Missed opportunities for certain device and browser

2.1 - Philanthropy pages are not optimized on mobile

2.2 - Slow load time for chrome browsers

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Broken donation form link in mobile view

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Desktop vs. Mobile View

2.1 - PHILANTHROPY PAGES ARE NOT OPTIMIZED ON MOBILE

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Menu

Philanthropy page

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Recommendation 2

Optimize for mobile and site speed

  • Fix broken links to the donate page for mobile devices
  • Optimize for mobile view of Philanthropy subcategory pages
  • Reduce unnecessary content, including resizing images to improve the load time

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Active donate page link on mobile

No duplicate subcategory links

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Finding 3

Lack of interest in & traffic to Philanthropy pages

3.1 - Few page views for the /philanthropy/ pages

3.2 - Lack of interaction with philanthropy related links

3.3 - Confusion with the Support label

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Pages with most pageviews

Pageviews of the /philanthropy/ pages

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Finding 2

Missed opportunities for certain device and browser

2.1 - Philanthropy pages are not optimized on mobile

2.2 - Slow load time for chrome browsers

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Hotjar recording of a session on a chrome browser showing a 4 second load time of the content

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Average Chrome load time for potential financial supporters was 6.3 seconds (8.7 seconds for all users)

Compared to all users, the financial supporters were 18% more often using Chrome.

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Finding 3

Lack of interest in & traffic to /philanthropy pages

3.1 - Few page views for the /philanthropy/ pages

3.2 - Lack of interaction with philanthropy related links

3.3 - Confusion with the Support label

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The home page’s heatmap of clicks does not show much interaction with the page link or donate button

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Finding 3

Lack of interest in & traffic to /philanthropy pages

3.1 - Few page views for the /philanthropy/ pages

3.2 - Lack of interaction with philanthropy related links

3.3 - Confusion with the Support label

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A Hotjar recording of a user confusing ‘Support’ with help support

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Recommendation 3

Redesign Philanthropy section architecture

Change the page title and menu option name of the “Philanthropy” page to “Support Us” to give a clearer indication of what the page is about.

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Recommended changes to the Homepage

Recommendation changes for the Philanthropy page

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Recommendation

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Summary

MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS

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Add event tracking & annotations in Google Analytics

Optimize for mobile & site speed

Redesign Philanthropy section architecture

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Future Redesign Plan

Original

Variant

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Proposed Redesign - Original Homepage

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Change “Support/Donate” to “Support Us”

Add a clear naming convention that addresses the section’s functionality by semantics in the global navigation.

Track Click Through Rate (CTR) metric

Set up CTA button event tracking to track clicks to the section (or track pageviews).

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A/B Test Plan

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New (simpler) A/B test plan mockup goes here

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Proposed Redesign - Variant Homepage

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Will be emailed after the presentation!

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Infographic

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Questions?

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