{"id":2614,"date":"2010-07-12T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/photocardblog\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:00:41","slug":"analytics-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/analytics-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytics for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jearvi\/3886460132\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/analyze1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"click image for credit\" width=\"310\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/analyze1.jpg 310w, https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/analyze1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/analyze1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a>How often do you analyze your numbers?<br \/>\nI look at my numbers with no regularity because I don&#8217;t know how to analyze them.  I can stare at them pretty well, but I don&#8217;t think winning a staring contest with my analytics is going to help my business.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen I took the SATs and later the GRE a couple decades ago, my scores were pretty middle of the road.  My boyfriend at the time got a perfect score and one of my best friends was just shy of that by 10 points.  Besides feeling inadequate in comparison, I took solace in the fact that I had a super score on the analytical sections.  So, what has happened to my brain?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not that I haven&#8217;t tried to figure it out.  I&#8217;ve visited other sites that offer some explanation of how to &#8220;read&#8221; the reports.  Soon, I get the same vacant feeling between my ears and I go design something or hang out on Twitter.  And the analytics are left to themselves until the compulsion to conquer them comes over me again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo, I throw out this challenge to you.  If you have a good handle on your numbers, can you tell me how you do it?  I&#8217;m hoping there is some secret formula or code that will make it, if not easier, then interesting.  Do you have something like that?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/analytics-for-everyone\/\"><\/div><script>\r\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\r\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1331825;\r\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\r\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do you analyze your numbers? I look at my numbers with no regularity because I don&#8217;t know how to analyze them. I can stare at them pretty well, but I don&#8217;t think winning a staring contest with my analytics is going to help my business. When I took the SATs and later the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\r\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\r\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1331825;\r\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\r\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}