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Visitor analysis using Google Analytics-Visitors Flow

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“Flow Visualization” in Google Analytics is a tool that allows you to analyze site insights graphically, and instantly understand how visitors flow across pages on your site. Currently GA offers two  types of visualizers: “Visitors Flow” and “Goal Flow” .The Visitor Flow Report allows you to graphically see the visitor’s navigation through your site. It shows exactly where the users came from, and which page they entered, progressed to, and left from. It is located under the grouping of Audience reports (the last option).
For this blog post,  my focus would be on how you can get better visitor insights using Visitors Flow. We will quickly traverse through three cases that can help you gain in-depth insight on your visitors.

How would Visitor flow report help me?

You can view the navigation from almost any dimension, such as country, source, medium, campaign and more. You can further slice it with advanced segments. Let’s take few cases that could help you know your visitors well.

1.    Analyze most popular path:
You can analyze the most popular path visitors take. Use this to plan and path your goal which will help you analyze how converting and non-converting users navigate your site. What after this? Well, this will help you making many decisions like:  Once you know the most popular path, you can decide the most strategic page (one amongst the most popular path’s pages) for particular advertisement or any content important to visitor’s conversion.

2.     Analyze the difference between paths of converting and non-converting visitors:
By analyzing the difference between the path of converting and non-converting visitors, you can gain many insights about what works best. For example, if the visitor A follows path (a->b->c->D) and converts (page D being the conversion page) and on the other hand visitor B follows the path (x->b->z->D) and does not convert , then there could be an issue with pages-x,z or may be the sequence is not working with them. But, this can be concluded if there are quite a few visitors that depict this behavior.

3.    Analyze your new visitors:
If your site experiences sudden boom in traffic you can analyze the properties of the new visitors, for example, country, and traffic source like campaign. You can also choose to include all visitors (instead of new visitors) to get the generalized idea of all the visitors.

Geographic Location specific Visitor Flow

4.    Analyze the properties of frequently converting visitors:

Language specific Visitor Flow

Looking at the country of visitors who convert (visits with transaction), say visitors from Brazil. If there are around 2k visitors who convert but, your site is only in US-English. Considering the number of people converting and the potential of further conversion rate from Brazil you may consider offering your site content in Portugal language as well. This will help you increase you conversions. Although, this is doable using custom reports, but the visual appeal and also the path followed by the visitors is an add on here which can help you gain better insights.
Campaign specific Visitor Flow

There is much more to this, you can apply various advanced segments, metrics and dimensions to narrow down your results and gain focused and helpful insights. But, to begin with, I hope this would be helpful.

Multi Channel Funnels Analysis for E-commerce

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All over the world, we can see that e-commerce has started growing crazily. Especially in past 2 - 3 years online shopping has reported prolific growth in comparison with last 5-7 years. It’s because customers have started becoming friendlier with  technology and vendors started offering e-commerce at very ease i.e. free shipping, discounted rates, cash on delivery and easy return policies etc.  These makes online shopping even easier for traditional buyers.

With e-comerce vendors growing many folds, the competition forces them to use as many marketing channels available to promote their e-stores. Vendors are spending a lot on various online marketing channels to promote their business and using analytics to track the sources of conversions.

The main problem is that most analytics tools show the only last source of conversion.  For instance, customer visited the website through facebook advertising campaign first and then again visited again through organic search and then made a purchase. Here, analytics tool will show the source of conversion as organic search  but that  credit actual should have been attributed to facebook advertising campaign. This problem is solved by Google Analytics’ new feature Multi Channel Funnels which was launched some months ago.

In this blog post, I’m going to present case study for multi channel analysis of one of our e-commerce client. It shows how  multi channel funnels helped them analyze their online marketing channels better. Now they know actually where they should actually spend more or less.

Case Study - using Multi Channel Funnels to optimize different marketing channels

We have observed that client’s website is getting decent amount of traffic through organic source but the e-commerce conversion rate is very low. Hence, we focused on organic segment to optimize with the help of multi channel funnels.

We started analyzing organic visits data of that client and found some interesting opportunities to optimize organic segment with the help of multi channel funnels.

Our key insights during the analysis:

Insight 1 - Users coming through organic search did not convert in their first visit:

In case of our client, Organic search is playing major role it didn’t convert well, for instance in some of cases organic search was laid in between somewhere with other traffic sources i.e. direct, paid etc.

 

You can see in above image that organic search was  first source of visit,   and also in between other channels before visitor converted but it  was last source of visit in very few cases.  Based on that we can derive the conclusion that visitors did not get more information on how to proceed with the website in terms of purchasing product that’s why they again visited through other sources.

Actions taken -

from the above insight, we found out that there is a scope to improve usability of home page and communicating products and services in easier way.

What we did -

  • Included “About us” in main menu
  • How to articles
  • FAQs
  • Customer Reviews

Insight 2 - Customers who come through organic search took longer to convert

We have also observed that through organic search, conversion ratio at the same day was high, but some customers took much longer to convert.

In the above image, you can see that 48% visitors converted on the same day and other 16% visitors took 12+ days to convert.

Actions  taken -

Based on this insight client has  taken actions to shorten the time taken to purchase for those 16% visitors.

  • Live chat program / 24X7 Call Center to answer queries of visitors on real time basis.
  • Sending mailers for giving tips, reminding about their unfinished purchases and keep in touch with customers over the time.
  • Asking for surveys, feedback, question or problems faced by customer while making purchase decisions by visitors easily.

Multi Channel Funnels provide valuable learning on fine-tuning of purchase process of website based on the feedback provided by visitors.  Ultimately, it leads in increase of customer satisfaction ratio that will help in boosting conversion rate in future.

You can also carry out same kind of analysis for your website. If you need any  help in analyzing your Multi channel funnels, then you can reach out us here.

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