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BigCommerce Traffic by Source

The Traffic by Source metric tracks the different channels that drive traffic to a website, such as search engines, social media, direct links, and referral websites.

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What is "Traffic by Source"?
The Traffic by Source metric helps track and analyze the sources of traffic to your website. It provides insights into the channels driving visitors, such as organic search, paid search, direct visits, referral links, social media, etc. By understanding the distribution of traffic sources, businesses can evaluate the effectiveness of their marketing efforts, optimize campaigns, and allocate resources appropriately. This metric helps identify the sources driving the most valuable and engaged users, enabling businesses to make data-driven decisions to enhance their online presence and maximize conversions.
Example: Monitoring the Traffic by Source metric allows an e-commerce retailer to identify the most effective marketing channels driving website visits, such as organic search, paid ads, social media campaigns, or email marketing.

Visualizations

  • Databox visualization

    Bar and Line Chart

    Used to show comparisons between values.

How to track Traffic by Source in Databox?

Databox is a business analytics software that allows you to track and visualize your most important metrics from any data source in one centralized platform.

To track Traffic by Source using Databox, follow these steps:

  1. 1
    Connect BigCommerce that contains the metric you want to track
  2. 2
    Select the metric you want to track from the list of available metrics
  3. 3
    Drag and drop the selected metric onto your dashboard
  4. 4
    Watch your dashboard populate in seconds
  5. 5
    Put Traffic by Source on the Performance screen
  6. 6
    Get Traffic by Source performance daily with Scorecards or as a weekly digest
  7. 7
    Set Goals to track and improve performance of Traffic by Source
Goals

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Scorecards

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Metric Digest

Receive detailed weekly performance updates
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Data Calculations

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Performance Screen

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General

  • Description
    The Traffic by Source metric tracks the different channels that drive traffic to a website, such as search engines, social media, direct links, and referral websites.
  • Date Added
    2023-07-01

Specification

  • Metric Type
    general
  • Dimensional
    Yes
  • Decimal Digits
    Yes
  • Currency Units
    Yes
  • Granularities
    Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and all-time.
  • Custom Relative Periods
    Yes
  • Data Availability
    At sync, it ranges from 3 years ago to now.
  • Retroactive Data Updates
    Newly synced data is merged with existing data, replacing values for matching periods.
  • Future Data Available
    No

Visualization

  • Default Format
    PrefixCurrency
  • Cumulative Graph
    Yes
  • Favorable Trend
    increasing
  • Media Creatives
    No
  • Forecasts
    Yes
  • Benchmarks
    No

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