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Digital Skills: Web Analytics

Accenture via FutureLearn

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Overview

Explore the world of web analytics and develop skills to grow your career

What is web analytics? And why are web analytics important? With this course, you’ll explore some of the fundamentals of this increasingly popular skill and learn how to apply it to your own online business.

You’ll begin by looking at the basics of web analysis, including the different types of analytics and what they’re used for, before exploring some key areas in more detail.

Examine the importance of business analytics

As you work your way through the course, you’ll focus on how organisations and individuals can benefit from learning analytics.

Running a successful online business often requires a good working knowledge of web analytics, and here you’ll look at some of the essential processes for measuring objects and outcomes. You’ll also learn how web analytics skills can help you to continually improve your product or business.

Discover the power of web analytics tools

You will discover the powerful ways analytics tools can be used, examining concepts including segmentation and benchmarking, and exploring the five steps to creating a measurement plan. You will also learn the processes involved in creating a successful online business, including measuring objectives, outcomes and continually improving.

Learn the basics of how to use Google Analytics

As you round off the course, you will learn how to apply web analytics in a business setting, looking particularly at Google Analytics for beginners. You’ll learn how to use Google web analytics for a variety of business-related tasks.

This course is for anyone with an interest in web analytics who is looking to develop their entrepreneurial skills, preparing to enter the workplace or looking to change careers. If you want to learn the basics of web analysis, as well as how to use Google Analytics, this is the ideal opportunity. No prior experience or qualifications required.

Interested in growing your digital skills more widely? Discover more Digital Skills courses from Accenture.

Syllabus

  • Analytics basics
    • Getting started
    • Introduction to analytics
    • Web analytics processes
    • Reflecting
  • Using analytics
    • Web analytics techniques
    • Analytics in practice
    • Assignment

Taught by

Matthew O'Kane

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    As a Web Developer I came into this course looking to increase my knowledge of Web analytics. After week one, I realised I probably wasn't going to get the upskilling I was hoping for, as I already have a decent grounding in the role marketing and…

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