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Website Metrics + Definitions
Website Metrics + Definitions

Definitions of the key website metrics and dimensions found in Atlas

Updated over 6 months ago

Metrics

Visitors

  • Counts the number of unique visitor IDs

  • Essentially this is user count though this can be slightly inflated since new user IDs are generated by adobe analytics when:

    • A user clears their browser’s cache (cookie deletion)

    • A user opens a different browser

    • A user opens the website on a different device

    • A user opens a private browsing session (also referred to as incognito mode)

Visits

  • Counts the number of browsing sessions across all visitors

  • Each visitor can have multiple visits to the website

  • In adobe analytics a session will end if:

    • There are more than 30 minutes of inactivity

    • There are more than 12 hours of activity

    • There are more than 2500 hits

    • 100 hits occur in 100 seconds

  • However a new visit will not start if less than 30 minutes since the last hit:

    • A visitor closed their browser but then navigates to your site again

    • A visitor changes their internet network (ex. Moves from wired to wireless)

    • A visitor switches between web browser tabs which visiting the website

Page views

  • Counts the number of a times a page was viewed

  • This is done via page view tracking calls

Hit

  • Counts the times web data is recorded

  • Each visit is comprised of at least 1 hit

CTA Clicks

  • This is any click a user makes on a ‘Call to Action’ (CTA) on the site such as a link, information source, or button to a different page

  • May be inconsistent when comparing pre-oADD to post-oADD data

Pageviews per Visit

  • Average page views per a visit

Average Time on Site

  • Average time on site in seconds

New Visitors % of Overall

  • Percent of visitors who are new (had their first visit to an AoA site) in the selected time period.

T3 Visitors with a VDP View

  • Percent of Tier 3 (dealer site) visitors who have viewed a VDP

T1 or T2 > T3 Cross-Tier Visitors

  • The amount of visitors who have navigated to a dealer site (T3) from either a regional (T2) or national site (T1).

T1 or T2 > T3 Cross-Tier Nav Rate

  • The % of T3 visitors who have navigated to a dealer site (T3) from either a regional (T2) or national site (T1).

VDP Pageviews per Visitor

  • The amount of total VDP pageviews divided by visitors.

Visitors with a VDP View

  • The amount of visitors who have viewed a VDP during one of their visits.

  • Includes T1 and T2 VDPs.

Lead Start VDP Any Tier

  • The amount of lead starts that occurred on a VDP across all tiers.

Lead Start VDP Rate

  • Percentage of visitors who start a lead.

Lead Start

  • Occurs when a user clicks to begin a lead on a CTA with text indicating it will start a lead (ex. ‘Request a quote,’ ‘Contact Dealer,’ etc.)

  • This does not guarantee that the user engages with the lead form

Lead Start Rate

  • Lead starts divided by visitors

Lead Start Any Tier

  • Occurs when a user clicks to begin a lead on a CTA including ‘Request a quote,’ ‘Contact Dealer,’ etc on Tier 1 (National sites), Tier 2, or Tier 3 (dealer sites)

  • This does not guarantee that the user engages with the lead form

Successful Form Submissions

  • Triggers when the user reaches a form confirmation page after clicking through to submit a form

Form Submission Rate

  • Successful Form Submissions divided by the total visitors

DR Form Starts

  • Triggers when a user clicks to begin a lead on a CTA including ‘Request a quote,’ ‘Contact Dealer,’ etc. on Tier 3

  • DR stands for Digital Retailing

DR pencils

  • Triggers when a user interacts with a DR form

DR Leads Submitted

  • Triggers when the user reaches a form confirmation page after clicking through to submit a form

  • Note that this will only fire on DR tools that have been integrated with Adobe Analytics

DR Form Start to Submit Rate

  • Successful DR Form Submissions divided by the total visitors to the given tier(s)

Configurator Start

  • Any hit to a configurator page

  • This does not guarantee the user engages with the configurator

Configurator Complete

  • Any time a user navigates away from the configurator to another page or anytime user clicks inside shipping summary field (except enlarge image)

Dimensions

Acquisition Channel

  • The marketing channel through which the user first interacted with an Audi website (Any Tier)

Channel

  • The marketing channel through which a user began a visit

City

  • The city of a user

  • This data relies on an internal Adobe Analytics lookup via IP address from their partner, Digital Element

Conversion Channel

  • The channel of the visits that included conversion events

Cross-Tier Visitor Type

  • The previous Audi web experience a user was browsing during their visit prior to entering a dealer site. Either T1 (National), T2 (Regional), or T12 (Both).

Form Location

  • The category of page for the given form

Form Name

  • The name of the form

  • May be inconsistent when comparing pre-oADD to post-oADD data

  • Pre-oADD form titles were assigned by DDC

Landing Page

  • The first web page of a visit

Model

  • Vehicle model name

T1 Channel

  • Channel associated with a visit based on the Tier 1 tracking code present in the user’s url query parameters when they entered Tier 1.

ZIP Code

  • The ZIP code of a visitor pulled from Adobe Analytics’ internal geolocation data

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