My Weekly Visit to Google Analytics

My Weekly Visit to Analytics (edit/delete)

Well I try to visit Analytics at least once a week to see what traffic I am receiving & approximately where it is coming from....  I wish I could figure out "specifics" to follow up, but wanted to share a brief overview of what it told me this morning.  I do check more frequently at times depending on what I have put out into the market place.  Ironically I received a lot of traffic after I blogged about my visit to Costco & the Stuffed Olives with Garlic & Jalapeno & Wasabi Doritos....  Here is what this Monday morning brought to light.
I was thrilled that I was discovered in "4" countries...."3" outside the United States.

1.	United States	17	3.88	00:00:56	88.24%	17.65%
2.	Brazil	3	1.00	00:00:00	0.00%	100.00%
3.	Jamaica	2	1.00	00:00:00	100.00%	100.00%
4.	Costa Rica	1	2.00	00:02:17	100.00%	0.00%

 This area told me "where" my sources were coming from....  You will see the majority were from Active Rain!

Top Traffic Sources

<>SourcesVisits% visits

activerain.com (referral)	6	26.09%
(direct) ((none))	5	21.74%
google (organic)	5	21.74%
www.br4.in/ForexMarket (referral)	3	13.04%
iahsp.com (referral)	2	8.70%

Then you will see what key words were used to find me in these searches....(so that may be I can improve) 

<>KeywordsVisits% visits

commercial interior designers	1	20.00%
destination interior desiner miami	1	20.00%
http://www.innovativeartistry.com/	1	20.00%
innovative artistry	1	20.00%
innovative artistry, llc	1	20.00%

It gives you a wonderful graph at a glance with a number of visitors per day if you scroll over....
 
 I can not reduce this in the copy & paste, but it tells me how many visits - how many were "new & unique" visits, how many pages were view, how long the average time on my website, and "bounce rate"...well bounce rate was a mystery to me until I read this article....it appears that under 50% is "an average bounce rate...higher & you have a problem" per the article on INC.com.  It also tells me the percentage of visitors that were new verses overall visitors.
http://www.inc.com/guides/2011/01/how-to-reduce-your-website-bounce-rate.html

• 23 Visits

• 19 Absolute Unique Visitors

• 73 Pageviews

• 3.17 Average Pageviews

• 00:00:48 Time on Site

• 34.78% Bounce Rate

• 65.22% New Visits

Well obviously there is so much more work to do in just starting up with all of this...but little by little I hope that results & improvements start happening.  I found it really interesting to see the wide exposure in the various countries.
I am not sure how many follow their results on Google, but it may be worthwhile to see when traffic is down & when it is up?  I am trying to narrow down what can improve my traffic.  Active Rain is at the top of the referring sites:)!  It is free to sign up by the way.  I also just heard it is beneficial to post your AR Blog to your Google Blog....so I am going to start trying that today...starting with an article about my analytics :).

Thank you Google, Active Rain & Inc.com!

Thank you for visiting!  Pam