Define Success: Website

Website metrics are often simplified to website metric, visitors. While the number of visitors is certainly important as we need traffic, many other metrics are a better measure of success on a website. There are several web metrics that can be used to define success based on the company objective: Bounce rate – This serves as a reverse goal, meaning

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Website User Needs Can’t Be Presumed

Site owners often tell me things like, “Users are going to love this feature” or “This tool is perfect for what our visitors should be doing.”  My response is usually, “Is that what testing has shown?”  The reason I ask this question is because many site owners make decisions on gut feel.  After making the gut call, many of them

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