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A collection of experiments and research to learn about what makes an Alaveteli grow
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Write-up for social media link usage #70

Closed lizconlan closed 8 years ago

lizconlan commented 8 years ago

Closes #53

crowbot commented 8 years ago

I think it would be good to have some kind of context to these figures. There were a couple of hundred clicks overall, from how many visitors?

lizconlan commented 8 years ago

sorry - closed in error, reopening

lizconlan commented 8 years ago

There were a couple of hundred clicks overall, from how many visitors

This is surprisingly awkward to answer as visitor numbers are in the Audience section and our magic click tracking is in the Behaviour > Events section, which on closer inspection behaves a little oddly (as in the numbers jump around a bit, which with such low numbers is very noticeable).

I have attempted to compare Event Clicks with Sessions and hopefully made it clearer that we only saw tracked click throughs from a tiny percentage of those sessions. My assumption where the number of sessions at the top and the number of sessions in the per-category breakdowns do not entirely add up could be that one or more session clicked on more than one link, but it could be an error. The difference however is +2 so I think we can live with it either way.

Edit: apparently this is expected behaviour as I was trying to mix sessions and hits and this is not a good idea

crowbot commented 8 years ago

👍 looks good to me now, thanks!