Monday, January 12, 2009

Google Analytics - Fun in Geekdom

So Etsy has finally given us sellers what we've been asking for: Web Analytics (if you haven't heard about it, read The Storque article here). So while perusing our statistics from the past few days we found out a few interesting things.

In 23 visits, we have had 91 page views. This means that the average person looked at about 4 pages of our shop before leaving.
  1. Our top landing page is (not surprisingly) our storefront
  2. From there, most people go to page 2 (again, not too surprising, but we'd like people to look at some of the stuff on the first page)
  3. Most of those who don't go directly to page 2 click on our Ooops Ring (see #5 for more details)
  4. I could go on with the whole path thing, but that'll get boring. Our most popular Exit page, however, is also our storefront.
  5. Interestingly enough, people who used search engines were brought to our page via the following: "pmc silver ring" (normal), "persian bracelet instructions" (fairly normal), and "how to decoupage light switch cover" (really strange).
  6. To the three readers out there that found us through blogger - Thanks! Glad to see that someone is reading this :)
  7. Twitter also sent a couple referrals as well. Thanks to you guys too!

Now, we've only been messing around with this for a day or two, so I'm sure there's tons more that we haven't figured out yet. But this certainly will prove to be an extremely valuable tool to us. Any of you Etsians out there reading this, we urge you to sign up for this service. It's free, it's through Google, it's easy to set up, and hey, now you know who's visiting and why they're there.

So, I guess we'll go write up those instructions on decoupaging lightswitch covers and list them in our shop :)

Peace,

Pete and Leane

www.skellydesigns.etsy.com