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What proportion of users enter on the home page? #37

Closed garethrees closed 8 years ago

garethrees commented 8 years ago

Q: What proportion enter on the home page?

[Explain how you will measure this]

Analytics stats: proportion of entrances to the home page

[What do we need to do to be able to take the measurements?]

garethrees commented 8 years ago

Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13cpIhjzYUHNIF_Um97oFbRmBse47YQ-R0SbHdafO3aY/edit#gid=93569911

Gemmamysoc commented 8 years ago

Method:

In Google Analytics for each site, I looked at 'Behaviour' - 'Site Content' - 'All Pages' then '/' since the site began until now (4th May 2016).

Results:

Czech Republic - IPV: Still don't have access - Richard still needs to share with us :) Hungary - KiMitTud: 9.68% of page views Australia - RightToKnow: 13.27% of page views New Zealand - fyi.org.nz: Don't have access - Paul does though Croatia - IPZ: 10.12% of page views AsktheEU: 9.04% of page views WhatDoTheyKnow: 3.96% of page views

garethrees commented 8 years ago

I don't think that's quite right.

That's looking at how many page views there were, rather than number of individual users.

Its a bit more of a pain to view the number of unique visitors to a page.

You need to "Add a segment" on the Audience > Overview report:

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Which suggests 7250 users saw the homepage in the last year.

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That's out of the 37173 total users:

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So 7250 out of 37173 is 19.5% of users in the last year have looked at the homepage at some point.

garethrees commented 8 years ago

Had a look in to this and looks like we were originally trying to find out whether more entrances were to:

  1. The homepage
  2. The request pages (this was the hunch)
  3. Somewhere else

This was because we were asking the question of whether the request pages clearly explain the site to a new user

garethrees commented 8 years ago

Fixed by 7eb91b309642af6c53b144a20390f4c922aea7d9