It's difficult enough to gather analytic data about your own customers and their journey on your website. But when it comes to understanding your digital customers, you also need to understand them in the context of what is going on in the industry and how your site or sites compare to the marketplace. IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark reporting provides insights on the broader market this holiday season by pulling digital analytic data from key dates for over 1,000 retail websites in the United States, Australia, and United Kingdom.
IBM ExperienceOne’s IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark Hub provides digital marketers with real-time, cloud-based retail data and analysis. This includes special alerts on Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Here are some interesting metrics based on online shopping metrics from this past weekend, Alert: Early bird shoppers stuffed their checkout carts last weekend on shopping transactions from Saturday, 11/22 - Sunday, 11/23:
- Online sales were up 18.7% over the same two-day period in 2013.
- Mobile traffic accounted for 48.8% of all online traffic, an increase of 24.4% YoY.
- Desktop traffic accounted for 51.2% of all online traffic and 73.4% of all online sales. More money was spent on desktops than mobile.
- The hottest retail category right now is Home Goods with weekend total online sales growth 20% over 2013.
- Online traffic
- Average order value
- Conversion rate
- Average page views per session
- Bounce rate
- Shopping cart abandonment
Click on the button below to use IBM ExperienceOne Benchmark Live to see how your customer analytics compare and rank amongst the industry's averages:
In addition to the live benchmark analytic data and the alerts on key dates, the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark Hub provides additional tools, reports, and news feeds for digital analytics reporting this holiday season. You’ll learn about customer/digital analytics stories that build loyalty and drive revenue, so you’re able to better understand your own customers and improve your customer engagement and conversion rates. In this hub, you’re also able to customize and download resources that give you access to online shopping trends.
I recommend you download the 10 Customer Analytics Success Stories That Deliver Results ebook containing the stories of how 10 clients used customer insights to deliver a personalized, real-time brand experience that engaged their customers, and increased conversions and revenue. These are great examples of best practices and will help you to plan ahead and optimize your customer experiences to keep pace with competition, especially during the holiday season.
For fun, check out The Lost Ones, a satirical video on how IBM Tealeaf can help you improve your online customer experience and avoid cart abandonment issues.
Take advantage of the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark data, it will provide additional insights beyond your own digital analytics. If you would like to discuss how to apply the Digital Analytic Benchmark data to your business, please feel free to leave a comment below or you can also contact us at slperry@pereion.com.