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Can you imagine a world without the Internet today? No, right? Around <\/span>5.4 billion people<\/span><\/a> use the Internet in 2024, which is around 67% of the global population. While the Internet revolution gathered momentum in the late 2000s and early 2010s, increased businesses realised the benefits of moving to digital platforms to reach wider audiences. Despite being around for a while, digital marketing only became relevant after 2013 after the widespread adoption of social media, Google\u2019s aggressive algorithm updates, and rapid advancements in the web page analytics space.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marketing leaders often talk about unique page visitors, concurrent website visitors, returning visitors, and other such metrics relevant to the digital marketing world. Each metric tells a different story making it crucial to understand web analytics.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This article sheds light on web analytics and why it is important in the current business landscape.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us dive in.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What Are Web Analytics?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Web analytics is everything related to a website. It can be described as a well-defined process wherein a user or a website visitor\u2019s data is collected and analysed to improve and optimise the site\u2019s user experience. The objective is to gather precious user insights either to optimise the entire website or certain pages to increase sales and conversions.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A website\u2019s data analytics can seem very intimidating, especially in the beginning. Therefore, it is important to define a few important metrics you should be looking at. For instance, you can start with page views, unique page visitors, bounce rates, and time spent on a page.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What Does Web Analytics Do and Why Is It Important?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Now that we have defined what web analytics is, let us explore why it is so important in the current marketing landscape.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n