Measuring results

You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!
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🕑Aug 30, 2024 🖋John Locke 💬0

Measuring Results with Analytics

August 2024

Hi,

At Freelock we're kicking off our long-anticipated "Vision" program, a series of newsletters, blog posts, and videos about website effectiveness. Before we get into the meat of things, we're setting the stage with the question, "How do we know if it worked?" And the answer is -- data.

So this month we're looking at a primary source of data, Website analytics.

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🕑Aug 27, 2024 🖋John Locke 💬0

What site owners need to know about Analytics

Stuart always has insightful things to say about Website analytics. Here's a conversation we had a while back, about the key things site owners should consider with their website analytics, and the serendipity to be found by digging through data and talking with each other.

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Ways to measure your website’s effectiveness

We've worked with many clients over the years, who all have very specific website development needs. While some clients may share common goals, each may approach those business goals in different ways. But, time and time again, we usually start by asking a client in what ways are they measuring their website's effectiveness. In this 4 part series, I'll discuss identifying purpose and overcoming obstacles, complaints of current site capabilities and establishing budget, metrics to success and selecting a vendor, then finally risk tolerance and disaster recovery planning.

🕑Jul 16, 2014 🖋John Locke 💬2

Performance problem: N! database calls

Kicking off some posts about various performance challenges we've fixed.

N Factorial

[Edit: Thomas point out this is not really factorial, because it's addition of each number in the sequence intead of multiplication].

web development, online marketing, SEO, CRM, e-commerce, sales conversion
🕑Jun 13, 2013 🖋John Locke 💬1

I wanna change my website

Before doing any changes to your web site, the first thing to figure out are your goals. As a web development shop, we focus on building web sites that create measurable value for our customers, aligned with their goals.
Some common goals:

🕑Apr 04, 2013 🖋John Locke 💬0

1984, Google Edition

April 2013

Chances are, whenever you do anything on any website in the world, Google knows about it. That's because half of the top million sites use Google Analytics to track everywhere you go. Nearly 2/3rds of the top 10,000 sites use Google Analytics. And out of all 186 million active web sites in the world, including a huge number of spam or parked domains, nearly 16 million of them use Google Analytics.