A practical tool to determining which days and times work best
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I loved this simple, yet powerful way of seeing which times are the peak for conversion. This post from Robert Kingston shows you how to extract data from Google Analytics and then display it on a spreadsheet using this format:
You can download the spreadsheet template and Robert also provides a pre-built custom report to obtain the data you need:
You can segment using the filter to a single country if you have visitors from multiple timezones clouding the picture.
Thanks Robert for creating and sharing this great tool!
Marketing implications of time of day for conversion
How can you use this data once you have it? Here are some ideas:
- Coinciding marketing activities like email marketing and social mentions to coincide with peaks.
- Use it to inform day-parting or varying investment in Google Adwords through the day.
- Take decisions about when support lines are staffed.
- Through using other measures like visits, revenue per visit you can vary your approach.
How else do you use this type of data?