This is an excerpt of World´s first Web Analytis Study for Russia (2012). Executive Summary and Conclusion on request.

1. Web Analytics Survey-Study 2012
THE STATUS OF WEB ANALYTICS IN
RUSSIA
Published 04th May 2012 by Ralf Haberich,
web-analytics-blog.de
Twitter.com/RalfHaberich

2. SURVEY METHODOLOGY
• CONDUCTED BETWEEN 19 April AND 02 May 2012
– Online using a software provided by freepoll.com
• PARTICIPANTS WERE RECRUITED ONLINE VIA
– Business platforms
– Online advertising
– Direct approach
• TOTAL SAMPLE SIZE WAS n = 71
STATUS of WEB ANALYTICS in RUSSIA - STUDY 2012 © Ralf Haberich | Web Analytics Europa | www.web-analytics-blog.de

3. THE GOALS OF THIS SURVEY-STUDY
WERE TO CREATE A CLEAR OVERVIEW
OF THE WEB ANALYTICS
MARKETING IN RUSSIA AND FUTURE
TRENDS WITHIN THIS SECTOR AS
WELL AS PUBLISH THE CURRENT
STANDING OF WEB ANALYTICS
IN AN ORGANIZATION.
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4. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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5. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I/II
• RUSSIAN MARKET IS ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING
MARKETS IN ONLINE MARKETING
• USAGE OF WEB ANALYTICS IS VERY WIDELY SPREAD
• GOOGLE ANALYTICS IS THE MOST USED TOOL
• ADOBE, COREMETRICS AND WEBTREKK ARE THE MOST
USED HIGH-END SOLUTIONS
• FREE TOOLS ARE NOT AS RELIABLE AS PAID VERSIONS
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6. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY II/II
• INCREASE OF CONVERSION RATE HAS BEEN THE BEST
SUCCESS
• MARKETING IS THE KEY DEPARTMENT FOR BUDGET AND
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• INCREASE OF ONLINE REVENUE IS GOAL NR 1 IN THE
FUTURE
• ANALYTICS IS IMPORTANT FOR THE WHOLE COMPANY
• JOB AS ANALYST GIVES STRONG PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
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7. The Conclcusion
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8. THE CONCLUSION
• MARKETING DEPARTMENT FEELS THE STRONG
NEED TO RAISE AWARENESS OF ANALYTICS
WITHIN TOP MANAGEMENT ALSO TO COLLECT
BUDGET FOR A HIGH-END SOLUTION
• WEB ANALYTICS IS AN ENVIRONMENT WITH
FUTURE PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWING
IMPORTANCE
• RUSSIAN KNOWLEDGE LEVEL WILL GROW INTO
EXPERT STATUS WITHIN NEAR FUTURE
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9. PROFILE OF SURVEY PARTICIPANTS
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10. PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Sector of your company?
Media
Agency/Consulting
Travel
Finance
Retail/eCommerce
28,5%
High Tech/IT
Telecommunications
Other
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11. PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Function within the company?
Founder
C-Level (CEO, CCO, CMO)
Upper Management (Head of, VP)
1
Middle Management
Junior Management
42,5%
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
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12. PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Connection to Web Anaytics?
Other
Consultant at Web Analytics
Vendor
Individual Web Analytics
Consultant
Web Analytics User - Expert -
Agency
1 Web Analytics User -
Advanced - Agency
Web Analytics User - Beginner
- Agency
Web Analytics User - Expert -
30,4% as End User
Web Analytics User -
Advanced - as End User
Web Analytics User - Beginner
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 - as End User
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13. PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
How long in Web Analytics space?
45 Male
41%
Female
40
35
69%
30
25 Your Gender?
20
15
10
5
0
Less than 1 year 1 to 2 years 2 to 4 years 5 to 7 years 8 to 10 years More than 10 Don´t know
years
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14. PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Employees within your company?
1
2 to 10
11 to 50
22,1% 51 to 100
101 to 500
501 to 1.000
More than 1.000
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15. POSITIONING OF WEB ANALYTICS
WITHIN THE COMPANY
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16. POSITIONING OF WEB ANALYTICS
Operating in Russia only?
Yes
No Service/Products
online only?
60,3%
Yes
No
68,9%
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17. POSITIONING OF WEB ANALYTICS
Usage status of Web Analytics?
Data Collection
Reporting
Analysis
Website Optimization
Business Integration
Business Optimization
25,9%
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18. IMPORTANCE OF WEB ANALYTICS
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19. IMPORTANCE OF WEB ANALYTICS
Outcome for your direct work?
Not important at all
Not so important
Relatively important
Important
Very important 45,5%
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
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20. IMPORTANCE OF WEB ANALYTICS
Outcome for your company at all?
Not important at all
Not so important
Relatively important
Important 42,8%
Very important
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
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21. IMPORTANCE OF WEB ANALYTICS
Outcome comparison!
Not important at all
Not important at all
Direct work environment
Yes
No
Company overall
Not so important 68,9%
Not so important
Relatively important
Relatively important
Important 42,8%
Important
Very important
Very important 45,5%
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
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22. IMPORTANCE OF WEB ANALYTICS
Purpose of Usage?
Campaign Analysis
19,2%
Landing Page Optimization
Customer Segmentation
Internal Site Search Analysis
Conversion Optimization
A/B Testing
Multivariate Testing
Enrichment of Data
Business Intelligence
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23. IMPORTANCE OF WEB ANALYTICS
Achievements through Analytics?
25
20
19,3%
15
10
5
0
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24. WEB ANALYTICS TOOL USAGE
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25. WEB ANALYTICS TOOL USAGE
Implemented Analytics solution?
Google Analytics
Other free tool
Adobe
44,3% comScore
Corementrics
Webtrends
Webtrekk
Other
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26. WEB ANALYTICS TOOL USAGE
Regular usage when 2 or more?
Google Analytics
Other free tool
Adobe
65,5%
comScore
Webtrekk
Other
Only one tool
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27. WEB ANALYTICS TOOL USAGE
Budgetholder dept. location?
Other
External
HR
Sales
IT
Management
Marketing 71,2%
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
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28. WEB ANALYTICS TOOL USAGE
Project Leader dept. location?
Other
External
HR
Sales
IT
Management
Marketing 75,4%
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
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29. WEB ANALYTICS TOOL USAGE
Should Analytics be an own unit?
Yes
No
63,3%
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30. SATISFACTION AND RELIABILITY OF
WEB ANALYTICS
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31. SATISFACTION AND RELIABILITY
Do you trust the Analytics data?
100
92,7%
90
80
70
60
50 Yes
40
No
30
20
10
0
1
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32. SATISFACTION AND RELIABILITY
Free tool as reliable as paid?
70 65,5%
60
50
40
Yes
30 No
20
10
0
1
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33. SATISFACTION AND RELIABILITY
Next solution you choose will be?
Free
68,5% Paid
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34. PRESENCE VS. FUTURE
Focus in 2013-2015? Planning to…
…implement a High End Web Analytics solution
…improve Conversion
…increase Online Revenue
…reduce Website costs
…hire new people for Web Analytics team
…train additional employees on tool
…raise awareness at Top Management
…develop relevant KPIs
…increase Website performance
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
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35. PRESENCE VS. FUTURE IN
WEB ANALYTICS
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36. PRESENCE VS. FUTURE
Focus in 2012? Planning to…
…implement a High End Web Analytics solution
…improve Conversion
…increase Online Revenue
…reduce Website costs
…hire new people for Web Analytics team
…train additional employees on tool
…raise awareness at Top Management
…develop relevant KPIs
…increase Website performance
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
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37. PRESENCE VS. FUTURE
Where to increase budget?
Web Analytics tool
54,9%
Web Analytucs users
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38. PRESENCE VS. FUTURE
Still work at Analytics in 5 years?
Yes
No
Not sure
80,4%
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39. PRESENCE VS. FUTURE
Personal Development given?
Yes
No
Not sure
74,5%
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40. PRESENCE VS. FUTURE
Who to report to as Web Analyst?
90 82,4%
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Head of Marketing / Chief Head of IT / Chief CEO Other
Marketing Officer Inforamtion Officer / Chief
Technology Officer
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41. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS THAT HAVE BEEN
SPENDING THEIR TIME AND KNOWLEDGE TO SHARE
CURRENT STATUS OF THEIR WEB ANALYTICS APPRAISAL.
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42. CONTACT
RALF HABERICH.
blogger, author, co-chairman / mail@ralf-haberich.de / twitter.com/ralfhaberich
WWW.RALF-HABERICH.DE
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44. THANK YOU.
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