Google Analytics and Bounce Rates
It is quite interesting when you read an article on the internet and the author makes reference to some new browser or operating system that is yet to be released as making a hit on their website. If you are like me who am a casual user of the web you are like wow that is so cool, how do they do that? Well there are a few ways to achieve this marvel of technology one is to make sure you go over every single visitor log for your website at the end of each day to know what is really happening.
While it will work I will not advice it as you will end up doing nothing again especially if your website has a lot of visitors. The other way to do it and I dare say a way a lot of people are doing it is to allow Google help you by using Google analytics.
Google analytics is a metrics-measuring tool that is quite capable. It can measure almost everything as far as it has assess to your website. It knows who visited your website, from where, with what browser, on which operating system, how many pages they visited, how long did they stay on each page and so on the list is almost endless. There is another item on that list that really caught my attention when I was reviewing the data from this site; the item is the bounce rate.
Google defines bounce rate as “the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page).” When I saw that and looked at my bounce rate it immediately got me thinking about things that I could do to improve the rate for the website.
Looking at website administration from the perspective of the casual user, there is a lot that need to be put in place to ensure that you get the satisfaction of adding value for your effort as well as securing the website and maximizing the feedback opportunity from tools like Google analytics.
So if you run a website and you don’t have such a service to monitor the performance of your website, then you need to open a gmail account and setup your analytics account and link it to your website immediately if possible yesterday.
Take care.
Biblical Wisdom
April 29, 2014 by Jide Ajayi • Life • Tags: Biblical Wisdom, God, wisdom •
I have been thinking a lot about biblical wisdom in the last few weeks. It is something that is different from wisdom as we use it. Most of the time we apply wisdom to get out of some situation that affects us directly or indirectly. This helps us achieve some goal we have set or overcome some difficulty that comes our way.
The one thing it does not do is expose the motive of our heart. Such wisdom when applied may be laudable, it may look selfless but it does not tell the onlooker the true motive behind the execution.
This is where biblical wisdom is different. Biblical wisdom often uses syncrisis to arrive at its conclusion. It contrasts opposite themes or ideas and at times proposes the outcome of either. This pattern then advises the recipient to choose the proper action and therefore proper outcome.
Here the individual is told to choose between the wife of his youth and the adulterer, to be satisfied by her breasts rather than the fragrance of her whose door leads to the place of death.
In this pattern, the presence of godly wisdom is established. The choice of a particular outcome shows the heart of the one choosing. It just does not put up situations where there is room for manipulation it reveals to all that hear it the clear motive behind the action.
This when applied to our speech reveals to us what is behind our actions. We can self-assess and know how near or far we are when it comes to conforming to the nature of God.
James 1:5 tells us how to get wisdom. Wisdom is personalized in the book of Proverbs and Christ is revealed as the wisdom of God.
Oh the depth of the of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgment and how inscrutable his ways!
Soli Deo Gloria