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You can set up goals in CardioLog and use the Goal Summary report to view the above metrics. We recommend keeping simple goal definitions in order to better track your progress. For example, if you wanted to measure employee satisfaction you can utilize CardioLog's Customer Surveys to gather relevant internal data to for your goals. You can then define your goals in CardioLog to keep track of your progress accurately. By combining customer data with detailed goal setting metrics, you can have a complete picture of how your portal is performing.

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CardioLog Analytics can be used to measure Economic Value by analyzing any amount of currency that visitors contribute to your portal.   In Especially helpful is Visitor Scoring, which you can use to assign any page and its visitors a score such as a the price of a product on a specific product page. In CardioLog Analytics, you can achieve economic value insights with our Goal Reports. By identifying macro and micro conversions in the portal or on a page, you can identify which actions are contributing to the bottom line, and which are limiting it.

For a public facing SharePoint Site, making a purchase is an obvious macro conversion. Typically, the cost of the product is the economic goal value. Although it can be harder to assign exact values for micro conversion goals, you can measure participation in specific activities that have known investment values. For example, if your company invests a specific known dollar amount in a highly specialized document that is available for all of your employees to download, and only 10 out of the 100 employees download the document, you can then determine your investment losses within that portal.

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In addition to measuring followers and likes, you can measure the conversion rate these actions may lead to. For discussions in your portal, you can measure the user comments per post, and the number of replies sent and received per day all under User Activity Reports.

You can then measure the measure conversation rate based on the amount of reader comments per blog post, and replies received per day in a discussion. You can also see which users are the most active, both in quantity of posts and diversity of interactions. These metrics are available in CardioLog in by using Social Reports for SharePoint, and similar metrics are also available for Sitrion and Yammer.

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Visitor Loyalty is helps your organization determine whether visitors choose to engage and interact with your site repeatedly. Visitor Loyalty is the number of times a visitor has visited the site within a specified date range. By combining visitor loyalty information with other metrics, such as bounce rate and visit duration, you can see which parts of your site are most exciting to visitors, and which aspects need improvement.

Visitor Recency

Visitor Recency indicates  describes one aspect of visitor engagement with your site by determining measuring the duration in between visits by individual visitors. To measure improvement, it's necessary to make comparisons over time. If your users are revisiting the portal more frequently, you can assume that the content provided on the portal is engaging and helpful to them. Thinking of ways to encourage people to return to the portal is necessary for ensuring portal stability and overall retention rates. The trick is finding ways to tempt users with something to come back for. A series of posts that tell a story, competitions within the portal, frequently updated newsletters, and employee highlights are all great ways to grab user attention and keep them coming back for more.

A Visitor Recency report is the answer to the question "How long has it been since a visitor last visited your portal?" By understanding how long it has been, you can get a birds-eye view into how an individual page is doing in SharePoint. Perhaps you're trying to promote this page, but you have now seen it's been one month since anyone has visited the page. You can then try to attract visitors by creating a button on a home page to redirect visitors to this page more easily. Then you can track after you implement the button how well the page is doing after the changes have been made.

Length of Visit

When your users enter the portal, how long are they staying? It's often difficult to get your users to stay longer on a site, but that should be your ultimate goal. Thinking of creative ways to engage your users can also help you push them to spend more time in the portal. Use links and well thought out anchor text to send them to other pages on the site, and expose them to a variety of content within the portal. 

Although a "Length of Visit" metric may seem somewhat basic, it's vital for understanding the individual interactions your users have with the portal pages. During the reporting period, you can find the answer to the question "What is the quality of a visit as represented by length of a visitor session in seconds?"  If your reports show you that the length of a visitor session has increased after you have provided all of your portal users with training, then you can directly show that the training was beneficialThe more frequently a user visits your site, the more likely it is that they're having a productive and enjoyable experience. By keeping track of how long your users wait in between visits, you can see how attractive both individual pages and your site as a whole is to them. Additionally, if a particular page is rarely visited, it might also indicate that not enough pages link to it within your portal. You can use this information to make the less visited pages of your site more easily navigable.

Length of Visit

Determining how long visitors spend on each page of your site is a crucial metric for building a complete picture about your visitors and your site. Typically, users will stay on a site if they are gaining something from the experience. By combining visit length with data from user goals, visitor recency, visitor loyalt, bounce rate, or many other metrics, you can see which of your users are getting the most out of your site, and which pages are engaging them.

Depth of Visit

Are your visitors just merely reading the pages of your portal that they specifically need, or are they digging deeper to discover an entire world of content that can be of resource to them? Based upon the goals of your enterprise and it's purpose of using SharePoint, you can first determine what is the target average page view rate. If your goal is to have your users come into your portal and find the relevant information to them as quickly and efficiently as possible, then having a low average page view rate may not be as detrimental to your overall SharePoint success. For many organizations, time is money. Thus, if users seem to be spending too much time and visiting too many pages in the portal because they're not finding the right information they need, then you may need to reassess your strategy. 

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