Web Measurement One of the most interesting aspects of web site measurement is that it overlaps with so many areas of a company's business. A company's web presence covers the whole of its interaction with the public. It is marketing and sales and customer relations and press office and recruitment. It has to inform the public, create new customers, and support existing customers.39679
Web analytics is the study of whether the web site is meeting its perse goals. Just as important, it is the presentation of the results to the various pisions of the company in a comprehensible format. It is now an industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.It wasn't always that way. I started writing Analog in 1995 when I was a student at the University of Cambridge Statistical Laboratory. Our department had just set up a web site, and we were keen to know how many people had been visiting it, but we found that none of the existing three programs worked well. So I decided to write my own little program, not guessing how it would take off.
Back then, the terms "web site measurement" and "web analytics" hadn't yet been coined: it was usually called something like "web logfile analysis." And the programs had a different emphasis than today's commercial programs: they focused on more technical statistics, such as which pages had been viewed most often and how many bytes had been transferred, rather than on visitor behavior.Several things happened to broaden the scope of web measurement. The most obvious is the growth in commercial activity on the Web in the late 1990s. As the Web became a major part of a company's business and a major expenditure, it became necessary to justify that expenditure. This perhaps became even truer during the weaker economy of the last few years, as all expenditure had to be examined, and the Web came to be regarded as a marketing channel like any other.
Another important development was the growth in pay-per-click advertising in the last four or five years. When Overture and Google introduced the ability to place text ads on search engine results pages, it brought web advertising within the reach of many more companies. Compared to traditional banner ads, these new ads were better targeted, and charged only for actual clicks. They were also self-service, which made them cheap to set up and easy to change, and allowed companies to experiment with many different ads. Just as the Web gave everyone the ability to become a publisher, pay-per-click ads gave everyone the ability to become an advertiser.
One technical development also deserves a mention. JavaScript was invented in 1995 as a way to embed small programs within web pages. Its relevance to web measurement is that a piece of JavaScript code can alert a dedicated data-collection server when the page is displayed. This allowed vendors to offer measurement as an outsourced service, instead of as a software purchase. There is an ongoing debate as to whether the JavaScript method or the traditional logfile method is superioreach has advantages and disadvantages, as this book will discussbut it is certain that JavaScript made web measurement available to many companies with less technical expertise, and to those whose web sites were hosted on third-party web servers.
In addition, vendors invented new ways to present data to wider audiences. Web statistics are useful to a business only if they can be understood by the people who have the authority to change the web site. If the statistics cannot be understood by people who can act upon them, they are merely an expensive curiosity. It was this that attracted me to making a career, not just a hobby, out of web analytics. I had refused previous job offers, but I joined ClickTracks because they wanted me to develop innovative ways to present the dataways that were intuitive but still with an underlying mathematical rigor.
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在网站测量过程中它与公司的许多业务领域的重叠是其中一个有趣的方面。一个公司的网络的存在总是伴随着覆盖全公司的公众互动。包括营销、销售以及客户关系和新闻办公室和招聘。它的作用是告知公众，吸收新的客户，并支持现有的客户。论文网 网络测量英文文献和中文翻译:http://www.youerw.com/fanyi/lunwen_40062.html