Is Your Funeral Firm Website Performing Well? Here’s How to Find Out!
Article from Ashley Montroy of FrontRunner Professional
Interestingly enough, when we asked “how do you know how your website is performing?” many funeral professionals candidly told us “I don’t; I have no idea.”
Here’s another question many didn’t have an answer for: “do you have a Google Analytics account?” Unfortunately, many of those who said “yes,” were quick to answer “no” to the next question:
Do you review your monthly analytics report?
Lots of folks, it seems, just don’t have the time to investigate how their website is performing.
If that sounds like you, make a commitment right now to take the time to review your site analytics—or simply assign the responsibility to a staff member. You can sign up for Google Analytics very easily, but it won’t do you any good if you don’t use the analytics reports you receive to make necessary changes in your site contents.
What’s Important…and What’s Not
At the most basic level, you want to have an idea of how many people are visiting your site on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Additionally, you should know what the visitors are doing while they’re on your site. How many pages are they viewing? How much time are they spending on your website?
Here’s a basic outline of what your Google Analytics will tell you, so you can assess your website performance:
Visits: is the number of times your website was visited in a given period of time (most statistics tools allow you to specify a time period). This is also sometimes referred to as the number of hits your site is getting.
Absolute Unique Visits: provides you with the number of unique visitors to your site. One person might visit your site five times in a week. This statistic tells you how many visitors you had instead of how many total visits.
Pageviews: indicates how many pages on your site were viewed. One visitor might have looked at five pages, so comparing the number of pageviews to the number of visitors can help you determine how much content the users are experiencing.
Time on Site: shows how much time visitors spent on your website. This number is averaged, and some visitors might keep your site open in their browsers when they’re not actively exploring it, so this data has the potential to be misleading; however, it is worth noting.
Bounce Rate: tells you the percentage of visitors who “bounced” away from your site immediately. If your bounce rate is high, that means visitors are not sticking around to check out your content. If it’s low, that means folks who visit your site are exploring it in more depth.
All of these statistics help you gain a basic understanding of your website performance. But knowing how many visitors are coming to your site may not be very helpful in a true website performance assessment. To get a better perspective, you’ll need to dig deeper and ask some probing questions.
What Questions?
The writers at FrontRunner Professional have put together an eBook to help you evaluate your current funeral firm website in 30 minutes or less. Titled, How Does Your Website Stack Up, this 20-page digital guide is designed to make it simple for you to assess site performance; then prioritize and implement any necessary site changes.
We want your firm to have the best possible website, no matter which hosting and design company you’ve hired. Click here to request a copy of How Does Your Website Stack Up? How to Evaluate Your Current Site in 30 Minutes or Less.
And be sure to let us know how you did by leaving your comments below!
