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Hi Guys,

I was confronted with a thought "How would you explain what is Web Analytics
to your 6 years old nephew?"
Any thoughts on this?


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Hi Guys, I was confronted with a thought "How would you explain what is Web Analytics to your 6 years old nephew?" Any thoughts on this? _,_._,___ ... -- ...
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Web analytics is one of the ways you measure how well your website is working. Like the speedometer on your car. That usually works on my wife's friends, just...
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I was recently asked by my 6 year old daughter roughly the same question. She wanted to know what I do. She has been on a couple web sites before (always...
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Jan 15, 2007
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This explanation probably wouldn¹t work for a 6-year old, but it¹s the best I could do ... ³Website analytics is the art and science of improving your...
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Jan 15, 2007
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Also not appropriate for a 6 year old: The Official WAA Definition of Web Analytics Web Analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of...
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Jan 15, 2007
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To a six year old, I would say... "A lot of people visit my website everyday. I try to figure out what things they like the best and what things they think are...
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I describe Web Analytics as the difference between running a cliffside obstacle course blindfolded at midnight and walking the same path on a bright, sunny...
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I explain that running a website and NOT having or paying attention to web analytics is like getting in your car in New York and starting out for California...
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If it is really is your nephew: It's like being a detective looking at the clues left by people who go to [your site] to figure out what they did. Except...
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... Well we're definitely out of the realm of the 6 year old now ;-) Internet data is that which is acquired in the course of a web visit. This is different...
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One member of the team that makes web sites work better. Better for those who use the sites and better for those who own the sites. my 2c... ... Gotta love the...
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Hello Aburpa, Interesting question you've posed..... If it really is a 6-year old you are talking to, they probably don't have a real grasp of what a "web...
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Aburpa, Here you go: "I'm the 007 of cyberspace. I'm on a mission to make life easier for the good guys (called converters) and turn the bad guys (called ...
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Debbie, You’ll know I only mean this is jest, but this is alarmingly similar to the pitch some vendors give to the CxO. John Marshall CEO www.clicktracks.com...
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Hey John! Hope you're well. CxOs and 6 year olds - that almost rhymes :-) CxOs and 6 year olds - how are they alike You know you have just a minute You must...
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And again in Haiku? ... Emetrics Summit, The Big Picture Optimizing Online Marketing Value 2007 London, March 29-30 Düsseldorf, April 17-18 San Francisco,...
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