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  • 3 Key Metrics That Tell the Truth about Your Website

  • By Rob Kall, President, Bookt LLC

  • Does Web Design Matter?

    We’re used to thinking of web design as a subjective matter. I like this, he likes that, etc., and of course, to a certain degree it is. But more than that, design does have a clear effect on people’s behavior online. No one takes the science of measuring this more seriously than Google, a company that meticulously performs A/B testing on all new design ideas to measure which alternative yields the highest desired outcome. You can do the same and this article outlines some important metrics that tell the truth of your current and next website design.

    How Can It Be Done?

    Before we start with the nitty gritty details, let’s just discuss how you can measure your design's effectiveness. Let’s say you currently have an online booking website for your lodging property. It seems to work ok, but you feel it looks a little outdated, you are not sure about the SEO effectiveness and you cannot effectively measure your online conversion ratio. A new design has been presented and you love the look, but will it perform better? (For questions about SEO and online conversion, please see previous articles I have published on this site on the subject).

    One ...

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