{"id":2674,"date":"2020-12-21T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brightpearl.com\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:53:24","slug":"4-user-focused-tools-to-improve-your-ecommerce-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/blog\/4-user-focused-tools-to-improve-your-ecommerce-analytics","title":{"rendered":"4 User-Focused Tools to Improve Your Ecommerce Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image3-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image3-1-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image3-1-768x571.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beeketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ecommerce-Retail-Sales.png\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image Source\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ecommerce is huge, and growing steadily bigger by the year. As technology and innovation in delivery channels improve, more and more people are turning to online ecommerce stores as an alternative to physical stores. Online business is certainly here to stay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g2.com\/articles\/cloud-computing-applications\">cloud-based computing<\/a> continually evolving, staying abreast of new developments can be overwhelming. And with increased need for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/exclusive.multibriefs.com\/content\/5-data-protection-trends-of-2020-that-will-define-security-next-year\/science-technology\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">data security<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, companies can often be hesitant when it comes to new development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, global ecommerce business saw a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/379046\/worldwide-retail-e-commerce-sales\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">total revenue of USD 3.53 trillion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Projections have that figure reaching USD 6.54 trillion in 2022. Some projections say that by 2040, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/uk-online-shopping-and-e-commerce-statistics-2017-2017-03-14\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">95% of all purchases<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be made online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People are spending more time<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and money<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">online stores than ever before, and how they access enhanced ecommerce sites is changing, too. It is estimated that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/13139\/estimated-worldwide-mobile-e-commerce-sales\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">73% of all ecommerce activity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will come from mobile devices by the end of 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With such a large and ever-growing market, competition is also increasingly fierce. So it is essential for ecommerce businesses to get their service right and to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction. To do that, you need to be sure that your ecommerce website is operating at optimal levels. And to do that, you need to be able to accurately analyze its performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But analyzing your website\u2019s performance on various levels can be no easy task. You want a general overview of the analytics as well as more focused snapshots of specific areas of performance. Knowing this can lead to better performance and optimization of your site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improving your business means having all the tools you need to improve the customer journey and to maximize revenue. This can include anything from the best <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/contact-center\/products\/inbound-call-software.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inbound call center software<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, utilizing companies such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infovista.com\/sd-wan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SD-WAN vendor Infovista<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or even integrating Live Chat into your website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We look at four of the best user-focused analytic tools that will help you improve analysis, performance, and efficiency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is Ecommerce Website Analytics?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is useful to know exactly what ecommerce analytics is and why it&#8217;s so important. Consumers are increasingly web-savvy and, just as they would shop around for good deals in physical stores, the same is true for online shopping.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building a successful ecommerce business is not just about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designrush.com\/trends\/brand-identity-usp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">building a brand identity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is about ensuring that people recognize that brand and enjoy engaging with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the convenience of visiting different websites taking no more than the click of a mouse button, it is crucial that you stay on top of your game and ahead of the competition. A slow website, poor pricing, and a negative customer experience will lead to customers going elsewhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ecommerce businesses rely on website analysis and ecommerce tracking to ensure they are operating at peak efficiency. Analytics tools analyze and test how your website is performing with the end goals of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clicdata.com\/blog\/customer-journey-data-analysis\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">improving the customer journey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and increasing your conversion rates and sales and revenue figures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can achieve this by providing you with two main types of ecommerce data:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Quantitative Data\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quantitative data you receive gives you an easy to read numerical measure of various metrics on your website. For example, you will be able to see the amount of daily visitors to your site, how many are regular or return visitors, and how much time they spend on your site and on specific pages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Qualitative Data\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This gives you more detailed information from your customers. This can come from sources such as customer surveys. These can identify common points of frustration your site visitors experience. It can also identify the positives that customers feel work well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By combining results from both sets of data, it makes it easier for you to see where there are issues on the site (such as a slow-loading landing page). You can then adjust and tweak those areas to improve the customer experience. And then monitor the next cycle of data to see if those adjustments have led to tangible improvements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also important to ensure that you are analyzing the correct ecommerce metrics in relation to your business model. The data you analyze has to be relevant to what you sell and how you operate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image4-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image4-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image4-1-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/images\/blog-images\/Average-Convesion-Rate-600x815.png\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image Source\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which Metrics Should You Analyze?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Efficient businesses move with the times. They install new systems, they change ways of doing things, they adapt to new technology. A few years ago, the question \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/online-meetings\/teleconference.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what is a teleconference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d would have been met with blank stares, but it is now part of how we do business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before you consider what analytics tools will be best for you, you need to be sure of what metrics and KPIs you are looking to measure and analyze. While there may be a core set of common metrics important to every business, you may want to look at certain focused metrics. We look at the eight of the most important:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversion Rate\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A simple to understand metric, this simply refers to the % of customers who make a purchase after visiting your site. Averages for ecommerce sites vary from around <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.invespcro.com\/blog\/the-average-website-conversion-rate-by-industry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2% to 5%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so this is what you should be looking to achieve or even outperform.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email Campaign Signup<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email marketing remains a powerful marketing tool with an extremely high ROI. In an ideal scenario, you want website visitors to sign up to your mailing list even when they do not purchase anything on that visit. You want to be able to track the ratio of visitors to sign-ups and you also want to track their source or referral point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lifetime Value\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This metric tracks the revenue you receive from a customer over their total or current lifetime. If, for example, you earn $50 over five transactions by a customer, then their customer lifetime value (CLV) is $250. There are different ways to calculate this, so look at what your chosen analytics tool offers you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acquisition Cost<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, there are costs involved in every new customer you attract. This is known as the customer acquisition cost. Your profitability in this area depends on your customer acquisition cost (CAC) being less than your CLV. And your CAC should also be less than the site\u2019s average order value.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the world of ecommerce, not all traffic is created equal. Some sources may direct traffic to your website in large numbers but those numbers see low conversion rates. Another source may send lower numbers but with much better ecommerce conversion rates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quality is more important than quantity and knowing which source is best allows you to direct your spending to the sources providing quality customers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Average Order Value<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another simple metric that shows you the average value of each purchase. To calculate, divide your total sales figure by number of transactions. You can drive this metric up by looking at packages, special offers, offering free shipping at a certain spend level, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image1-1.png 707w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image1-1-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jilt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shopping-cart-abandonment-rates.png\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image Source<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abandonment Rate<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This metric tells you about the number of visitors who have added items to their shopping cart but left the site without finishing the purchase at checkout. Abandonment during the checkout process can happen for a number of reasons but identifying that you have a high rate allows you to examine any issues in closer detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NPS (net promoter score)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another simple metric that tells you how satisfied customers are with your service. There are usually two questions asked that give you an NPS: \u2018How likely is it that you will recommend us?\u2019 (on a scale of 1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10). And \u2018Why did you give that score?\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">User-Focused Tools for Ecommerce Analytics<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ideally, you want to use the tools and programs that make your business more efficient. Ask yourself questions for each part of your company. What solutions for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datamation.com\/cloud-computing\/cloud-computing-companies.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cloud computing companies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> could improve how we operate? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/cobrowsing.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is cobrowsing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and could we use it to better train our staff on new tools? And what tools will best help us analyze our website data?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, now we know the primary metrics that we want to analyze in order to improve how our ecommerce website performs overall. But what tools should we choose in order to get a well-rounded analysis that actually benefits us?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image2-1.png 1999w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image2-1-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image2-1-1024x509.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image2-1-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image2-1-1536x764.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/easyautotagging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/facebook-cost-data-sets-in-google-analytics.png\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image Source\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Google Analytics<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/analytics.google.com\/analytics\/web\/provision\/#\/provision\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Analytics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remains one of the most-used tools for businesses. There are a number of reasons so many ecommerce businesses use it. First and foremost of those is that it is free. This allows you to invest in other areas of your system and infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also collects your data automatically and transfers it to report formats. You can choose to use their own report formats or customize your own template. GA also integrates easily with other tools. This is especially true if you use Google Adwords as the two will link together and work to improve any Adwords campaigns. It uses tracking codes to send data to reports quickly, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This integration can be useful when linking up with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">project management software<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so that you can combine several different views into one vision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GA offers tracking regarding what customers do once on your site, what they search for, and what landing pages they visit. And if you are experiencing high bounce rates, GA will provide detailed reports on what pages and sections of your site are most affected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demographic data can play a big part in marketing campaigns and marketing strategy, and GA offers this in droves. It can identify age, gender, interests, location, and what devices they are accessing your site from. It can also help you to identify what social media platforms will most benefit you when it comes to the placing of ads and content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GA is useful when it comes to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/1662518?hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attribution models<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that will assign credit for any of your sales or conversions to the relevant points in the conversion process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your content can play a major role in how well users engage and GA will highlight content and SEO terms that leads to high engagement and that which has lower levels. And, you can customize GA to identify different goals you want to set such as conversion rates, opting into email marketing lists, etc. This can be of enormous benefit to your marketers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Brightpearl<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/retail-reporting-analytics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brightpearl <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offers a deep and insightful analysis of many aspects of your ecommerce business. Its analytics are data-driven and are ideal for any business whether at retail, wholesale, or brand level. It can report on everything from customer behaviors and patterns through to detailed financial reporting and in-depth analysis and reports of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/inventory-management-system\">inventory<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What items are selling quickly and which are not performing as well? Brightpearl gives you clear reports on these aspects of your stock. This allows you to plan and make adjustments to your portal to push the slower moving products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The management analytics give you instant access to all your crucial metrics, and can be looked at as a whole or broken down into more focused reports on your different channels, products, and even your customer segments. This gives your 360 degree visibility and the ability to see reports on revenue, average order values, profitability, and inventory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brightpearl allows you to take data isolated in silos and change it into opportunities, by reporting on all your key metrics at every level from category to stock-keeping. At a glance, you will see what are your best and worst performing products. You can also analyze how your marketing and promotions are affecting sales, so that you see the big picture of your sales performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, one crucial requirement you need from your analytics is detailed understanding of customer behavior. Brightpearl allows you to see overall behavior or to zoom in on specifics. Identify sources and referral points, what sales channels they are using, what categories or products they are browsing and buying, and how often they visit and purchase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The outstanding analytics offered by Brightpearl allow you to both make new long-term marketing plans and strategies, and to tweak and adjust in real-time. With the ability to focus on any portion of your business, you can be sure that all actions based on the insights gleaned will pay dividends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Crazy Egg\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crazy Egg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offers deep and insightful views into customers&#8217; journeys, so you can make changes to improve those journeys. Crazy Egg is used by over 300,000 websites and can help you make changes that matter to you in design, content, images, and even colors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crazy Egg uses a number of visual reports and recordings of individual sessions to let you know where visitors are coming from, what landing pages they are visiting, and what is causing them problems if any. It also provides detailed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginepeople.com\/blog\/using-heatmaps-conversion-optimization.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heatmaps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so that you can see what areas of your site are attracting visitors and are performing well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making decisions about changes that are based on data can have a positive effect on your eventual bottom line. Crazy Egg\u2019s A\/B testing analyzes and reports on how your site looks to visitors and how you can better convert them to customers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another great feature of Crazy Egg is its simple-to-use editor. This allows you to change colors and fonts with virtually no effort, or even hide\/remove them. With a few minutes of work, you can then publish any changes straight to your webpages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crazy Egg is easy to set up and also integrates simply with services such as Shopify. You can also add all members of your team to the system for free. One of the beauties of Crazy Egg lies in its initial simplicity. You can get started quickly then customize as you move forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image5-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image5-1.png 1999w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image5-1-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image5-1-1024x587.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image5-1-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/www.brightpearl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image5-1-1536x881.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.contents.io\/asset_wAj7VHdI.png\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image Source\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. Mixpanel<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mixpanel is a great analytical tool that helps you to grow your business by focusing on and analyzing how your customers behave and interact with all your ecommerce platforms. It can help you engage with current and new users, convert visits to sales, and work on long term customer retention. Its clientele includes major global players such as Samsung and BMW.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powerful analysis and interactive ecommerce reports are two of the main features that make Mixpanel so attractive to companies. You can investigate data with only a few clicks and see visualizations that make them easy to understand. This allows you to see who is using your site, levels of engagement, and it quickly identifies areas where adjustments may be needed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mixpanel lets you break down customer actions into segments that let you make meaningful decisions. You can group your key users by what they buy or how much they spend (your power users). You can also monitor and analyze any trends that occur, from landing pages visited, to how special offers or discounts perform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowing which site visitors make actual purchases and what influences that decision is crucial to planning any changes. Mixpanel allows you to build <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/exponea.com\/blog\/conversion-funnels-analysis-and-optimization-for-e-commerce\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">funnels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in real-time that show user behaviors and attributes. It also shows any components of your funnel that is causing issues so that you can raise engagement levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mixpanel allows for the ideal mix of marketing management and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/project-management.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">project management<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It can help combine lots of different snapshots into one clear picture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Takeaway\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to making planning decisions for your ecommerce site, being able to access and interpret the relevant data is essential. Nobody gets things right the first time and using a good analytics platform can help you see what works and what doesn&#8217;t. You want your investment in both infrastructure and marketing efforts to give good ROIs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before making a decision as to what tool will be of most help, you should list the primary and secondary metrics that you want to analyze. You may also want one that can analyze data across several of your marketing channels. This will play a big part in choosing a particular analytical program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the ecommerce market continues to grow, so will the need for good analysis and reports to influence the decisions you make. Take some time to see what fits your needs and requirements and then look to see if trial or free versions are available to test them out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What looks good on paper\u2014or screen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">may not always be the best choice for you. While many people saw Zoom as the go-to program for video conferencing, now there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dialpad.com\/blog\/zoom-alternatives\/\">10 powerful Zoom alternatives for video calling and conferencing<\/a> available<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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