Practical Web Analytics for User Experience

How Analytics Can Help You Understand Your Users

By
  • Michael Beasley, is the user experience team lead at Pure Visibility, an Internet marketing firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Practical Web Analytics for User Experience teaches readers how to use web analytics to answer the complicated questions UX professionals are faced with. It describes a quantitative approach to measuring a website’s effectiveness and the methods for posing and answering specific questions about how users use a website. The book is organized according to the activities or practices that UX practitioners are familiar with: analyzing how users move from page to page, gathering information for personas, verifying usability testings, and so on.
With this book, the UX community will be able to capitalize on web analytics and analyze their web sites effectively.

Paperback, 256 Pages

Published: October 2013

Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann

ISBN: 978-0-12-404619-1

Contents

  • Ch 1: Introduction to analytics for UX
    Ch 2: How web analytics works
    Ch 3: Context Counts
    Ch 4: Metrics and Dimensions
    Ch 5: Goals
    Ch 6: Analyzing how people use your content
    Ch 7: Analyzing how people got to your website
    Ch 8: How to do segmentation
    Ch 9: Tying it Together: Pairing These Data with UX Methods
    Ch 10: Measuring the effects of changes
    Ch 11: A/B Testing
    Ch 12: Measuring user behavior on complex websites
    Ch 13: Tools for measuring behavior within pages
    Ch 14: Filtering data and setting up profiles
    Ch 15: A culture of reporting
    Ch 16: Conclusion

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