Analytics Glossary: Benchmark
Thursday
Mar 13, 2008
Benchmark:
- A standard by which something can be measured or judged. Assigning value to Key Performance Indicators (KPI) ensures your organization is measuring performance against similar goals.
Be sure you’re not setting benchmarked goals for your analytics or company that are impossible to obtain!
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Glossary Definition From Website Magazine, February 2008.
Analytics Glossary: Psychographics
Tuesday
Mar 11, 2008
Psychographics:
- Data used to build customer segments based on attitudes, values, beliefs and opinions as opposed to factual characteristics such as age and gender.
Many lead generation tools and services lump psychographics in with all of their demographics. Keep a keen eye out to watch for this both in separate categories and lumped in. It’s a valuable asset to have when deciding who to market very targeted products to. Avoid the egg on your face that could occur if you try to sell heavy metal music to conservative church-goers!
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Glossary Definition From Website Magazine, February 2008.
Analytics Glossary: Parameters
Thursday
Mar 6, 2008
Parameters:
- These are located in the URL immediately after a question mark and followed by an equal sign and a return value, known as name=value. Parameters indicate to a database what page a user is viewing. For example, www.mysite.com/product/widget.aspx?=1234. Here, widget is the product and 1234 is the product identifier.
This comes up a lot when using search functions embedded in websites. Be sure if you’re going to share the link with a customer or through a bulk email campaign to copy everything after the question mark. Sometimes if you just paste a link into an email or document and rely on the auto hyper link feature to add the link, it won’t add anything after the question mark. Be sure to use the menus of the program to insert the correct URL into the hyper link.
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Glossary Definition From Website Magazine, February 2008.
