What Your Traffic Flow Can Tell You:
- You can easily see how long people stay on your site by the number of pages they navigated through. From this, you can gauge whether your site is offering the information that your audience is searching for.
- With the Users Flow graph, you can also see how successful individual pages are based on the drop-off for each page on your site.
How to View Your Traffic Flow:
- Login to Google Analytics
- Navigate to the Audience section of the lefthand sidebar
- Click Users Flow
- Clicking on each of the bubbles will give you details about each page including the number of sessions, the number of people that continued on to a different page, and the number of people who left your site from that page. (our site shows mainly traffic to our most popular post about Facebook, but if we scroll down, we can see all the rest of our landing pages)
One special trick I like to do is to right click on a bubble for a landing page that we’re working on building up in the search engine results. I choose “Highlight Traffic Through Here”, and then I can see all the subsequent pages that the audience navigated to after visiting that landing page.
If I notice that a ton of people are leaving the site immediately after first visiting that landing page, then I might wonder whether our landing page is effective at delivering information, or if the people finding that page aren’t actually looking for that information, indicating our SEO is targeting the wrong audience. If I notice that lots of people are moving on to the Contact Page, the Schedule an Appointment Page, or other pages with informative content on our site, then I’d probably assume that this page is doing its job and is bringing in the appropriate traffic to our site.
How will you use this Users Flow data to improve your website content?
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