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Diagram showing how unique visitors, sessions, and pageviews relate to each other

Understanding Website Traffic: Metrics, Tools, and Why Your Numbers Might Be Wrong

"How much traffic does my website get?" seems like a simple question. In practice, the answer depends on what you're measuring, which tool you're using, and whether your visitors accepted…

Jonathan Whitaker January 30, 2026

The five types of website traffic: organic search, direct, referral, social, and paid

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What Is Organic Traffic? Understanding Your Most Valuable Visitors

Not all website visitors are created equal. Some find you through ads. Some click a link on social media. Others type your URL directly into their browser. Then there's organic…

Jonathan Whitaker January 20, 2026

Cohort analysis diagram showing groups tracked over time

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How to Do Cohort Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

You launched a new feature last month. Signups went up. But are those new users actually sticking around, or are they churning faster than your old users did? This is…

Jonathan Whitaker January 5, 2026

Illustration of website visitors being divided into colored customer segments

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What Are Customer Segments? A Simple Guide for Web Analytics

If you manage a website long enough, you start to notice something: not all visitors behave the same way. Some arrive, bounce in two seconds and never come back. Others…

Jonathan Whitaker December 25, 2025