Important Metrics to Track Website Success
How do we know if our website is performing? There are very real, specific metrics that show us how well our content is performing. In this post, I'm going to describe the most valuable metrics for evaluating the performance of a website. Traffic Traffic is the most important metric because it enables everything that comes after it: engagement and conversion. The real metric that we should be paying attention to is the increase in traffic over time. There is no definite amount of traffic that we should have. Each blog and website will have different objectives, and a different threshold of traffic before people start to convert. Still, if we are correctly executing a content strategy, we should see an increase over time. We can learn the best practices and start to adopt them as we progress while at the same time cutting out things that we did that didn't make the traffic increase. Time Spent on the Website The real measure of the quality of the content i...