http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/using-sankey-diagrams-for-visualizing-web-site-performance/ A Sankey diagram says more than 1000 pie charts Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:12:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/using-sankey-diagrams-for-visualizing-web-site-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-1688 unordained Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:25:39 +0000 http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/using-sankey-diagrams-for-visualizing-web-site-performance/#comment-1688 A related graph could show, for each page hit (not session) how many are a "final" page load, vs. an intermediary page load; you could spread them out, replacing your "page load" with "page load 1", "page load 2", etc. and at each stage, showing how many users succeeded, continued, or dropped out, to gauge how long a visitor is willing to poke around before giving up, how quickly they're finding what they came for (or you wanted them to find); you could also track this (using the "traffic" view, where color bands continue through nodes, not stopping and merging) to show differences between returning/organic/referral/direct visitors, and what their tolerances are -- are returning visitors more likely to click through several pages, for example? A related graph could show, for each page hit (not session) how many are a “final” page load, vs. an intermediary page load; you could spread them out, replacing your “page load” with “page load 1″, “page load 2″, etc. and at each stage, showing how many users succeeded, continued, or dropped out, to gauge how long a visitor is willing to poke around before giving up, how quickly they’re finding what they came for (or you wanted them to find); you could also track this (using the “traffic” view, where color bands continue through nodes, not stopping and merging) to show differences between returning/organic/referral/direct visitors, and what their tolerances are — are returning visitors more likely to click through several pages, for example?

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