Totally bamboozled by Google Analytics! However, I'm intrigued by an 'insight' on my page that informed me that some of my sites are slow to load, which apparently is detrimental to user retention. There is a gadget for testing site speed with a benchmark of 2 seconds. That's fast! The hub that I tested loaded in 3.3 seconds, which Google feels is not good enough. I was provided with suggestions about how to improve site speed, none of which I am able to use as they are all about technical stuff. Any ideas?
That is mainly determined by Hubpages choices rather than ours.
"Any ideas? you ask Glenis. Yes. Ignore Google Analytics. I suppose it's mildly interesting to discover your article has been read by five left-handed New Zealanders who eat kippers for breakfast. But, what are you going to do with the abstruse statistics they gather?
Heavens to Betsy - 3.3 seconds discourages readership. I am of a vintage to remember walking down to the newsagent in High Street to buy a magazine in order to get an article to read. Took an hour of your life, longer if you stopped in at the pub for a natter with real people.
If you intend to use lots of images on articles, compress them beforehand to reduce page load time. For those of us on fast broadband, it's not an issue, but many people are still on connections of 1 MBS or less or possibly even on dialup. Some software applications will give you a preview of how an image will look after compression. In general you can reduce image size by 80% or more without appreciable loss of quality.
by Misbah Sheikh 3 years ago
Hello beautiful people,I need help with Google Analytics Report not showing up "Active users right now". It's always saying zero users active. I have tried logging in and out but still, it doesn't make any difference. can someone help me with this? Thanks
by james smith 4 years ago
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by Nikolas Turustus 2 years ago
Dear Hubbers, probably, it is too general question, but I'd like to know how do you use your Google Analytics Reports? Yours
by H Lax 7 years ago
I uploaded Google Analytics and I was trying to use the tools but It's totally confusing to me. I'm not even sure if I'm supposed to in this...am I in Hubpages areas or my own. It's telling me problems like this XML Sitemaps Your website does not contain an XML sitemap and that can weaken...
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I have an article on Patients Lounge and it seems to be missing from GA. Has this something to do with the site migration?
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