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For many people, the most commonly and closely measured thing is their website or blog. And, of course, for many businesses, this is a hyper-critical area. Optimizing the performance of their websites has a direct impact on the top and bottom lines. We’ve seen many enterprise dashboard techniques applied to web analytics. In fact, many avid Dashboard Spy readers belong to the web measurement world.

I wanted to bring to your attention the KPI selection chapter of the book, Website Measurement Hacks: Tips & Tools to Help Optimize your Online Business. O’Reilly offers this free download of the chapter. It’s well worth the quick read. Here are a few screenshots I took from the KPI hacks. The tips offered apply to all KPI selection, not just for web analytics dashboards.

Here are a few suggested KPIs for web measurement:

This is a sample web measurement KPI worksheet. The suggested Key Performance Indicators include: Percent New Visitors, Percent Returning Visitors, Ratio of New to Returning, Conversion Rates, Average Order Value, Sales per Visitor, Customer Retention Rate, and my favorite, Percent of Visits Under 90 Seconds. (That’s a KPI that tells a lot!)

And here is a screenshot of a web measurement enterprise dashboard:

Homework: Do be sure to check out the free download and read it carefully. If you are looking for more background on web measurement, check these books on web analytics.

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of enterprise dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books (or even screenshots of real business dashboards) and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of a digital dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books on business dashboards.

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