{"id":149530,"date":"2020-01-28T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/?post_type=guides&#038;p=149530"},"modified":"2023-06-27T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T14:59:35","slug":"website-performance-reporting-template","status":"publish","type":"guides","link":"https:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/guides\/website-performance-reporting-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Website performance reporting template"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How will this report template help me and my business?<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re operating online, you need to have a clear picture of how your website performs in supporting your inbound marketing. Without an understanding of how many people arrive at your site, who they are and what they do when they land, you\u2019re essentially 'flying blind'.<\/p>\n<p>By reporting on traffic, audience interactions, conversion to marketing outcomes and identifying improvements, you\u2019ll be able to make informed decisions about tests to make site sections or calls-to-action more persuasive. Not only that, you\u2019ll be able to prove the long term worth of such activity by showing any increases in traffic, conversion or engagement.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll walk you through each step of the reporting process in this website performance report template, while showing you how to use GA4 to run reports. Created in Microsoft PowerPoint, this template is a great solution for tracking progress over time. Not only that, but the format makes it easy for you to present performance to colleagues and summarize any further actions to ensure continued success.<\/p>\n<p>Before you start, you\u2019ll need is access to your site\u2019s Google Analytics (GA) account, where you\u2019ll find the bulk of the data needed for this report. If you\u2019ve never used GA4, you\u2019ll need to spend some time familiarizing yourself with it and <a href=\"bit.ly\/431nIiP\">getting it set up correctly <\/a>before creating your report.<\/p>\n<h3>Who is the template for?<\/h3>\n<p>You\u2019ll find this template useful if you\u2019re responsible for reporting on website performance and coordinating ongoing activity to ensure its improvement.<\/p>\n<p>This might mean you\u2019re working \u2018in-house\u2019 as part of a marketing department or as part of an agency - in which case you\u2019ll use it to report on your client\u2019s site performance.<\/p>\n<h3>How is this template structured?<\/h3>\n<p>Our website performance report template uses the following structure. It's based around the key questions you should ask each time you should review website performance.<\/p>\n<h4>Plan<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Website performance summary \u2013 summary of changes and actions<\/li>\n<li>Audience summary \u2013 a broad overview of general numbers<\/li>\n<li>Audience demographics \u2013 a breakdown of your audience based on age and gender<\/li>\n<li>Audience location by country \u2013 your audience broken down by location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Reach<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall traffic \u2013 channel comparison<\/li>\n<li>Overall traffic \u2013 channel comparison (year on year)<\/li>\n<li>Attribution \u2013 which media are contributing to conversions?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Act<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Where do visitors arrive? Landing pages<\/li>\n<li>How popular are different pages?<\/li>\n<li>What is footfall in different sections of the site?<\/li>\n<li>Top ten organic pages<\/li>\n<li>What are paths through the site?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Convert<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Goals<\/li>\n<li>Sales transactions (if relevant)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Engage<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Returning visitors \u2013 cohort analysis<\/li>\n<li>Attribution with multichannel funnel report \u2013 are your social media campaigns contributing to conversions?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ll find explanations of how to find and create each part of the report - as well as information about methodology and context - in the notes section of each slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will this report template help me and my business? If you\u2019re operating online, you need to have a clear picture of how your website performs in supporting your inbound marketing. 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