Q1 2023 Global Web Content report
Checking in on our overall content performance
The Q1 results for web content performance covers the entire site as a whole: all pages, units, and regions. It's designed to measure against specific content goals that help make our site perform better in search, attract more interested visitors, and increase the overall quality of the site.
This report includes the top 20 topics for the quarter, which may be useful in planning your insights content.
Be sure to track your unit or team’s progress in your own reporting to see where you can make improvements to your site content and user experience.
There is a lot to be excited about in this report, with only a few areas where we lost a bit of ground. Compared to Q4, we see:
- Improved engagement, including a 17% rise in returning visitors, a 15% rise in session duration, and a nice drop of 5% in bounce rate.
- Improved organic traffic: a 23% rise in sessions from organic search
- Improved social traffic: an 83% increase in traffic from social sources
- Campaign activity slowed slightly: a 6% drop in sessions with a campaign ID (UTM)
- Increased form fills: 41% more visitors filled out forms
- Lots of upward trending in some of our topics, especially Cybersecurity, Economics/investments and the economy, Goals-based, Investment outsourcing, and Wealth technology.
Goal: Grow awareness | ||||||||
As awareness increases, we should see trending upward growth in these metrics over time. | Q1 2022 Previous site | Q2 2022 Previous site | Q3 2022 | Q4 2022 | Q1 2023 | % change over LQ | % change over LY | |
Sessions | 513,311 | 513,577 | 334,127 | 326,035 | 334,476 | 3 | -35 | |
Unique pageviews | 633,852 | 658,369 | 436,899 | 456,085 | 480,809 | 5 | -24 | |
Total users | 396,286 | 433,941 | 277,720 | 270,345 | 274,847 | 2 | -31 | |
New users | 383,519 | 421,227 | 277,636 | 262,583 | 262,871 | 0.11 | -31 | |
Black=grew or stayed static | ||||||||
Red=lost ground | ||||||||
Goal: Better engagement | ||||||||
Users engage with our site more when we provide content that interests them and when we optimize their experience. These things also boost our SEO. | Q1 2022 Previous site | Q2 2022 Previous site | Q3 2022 | Q4 2022 | Q1 2023 | % change over LQ | % change over LY | |
Returning users | na | na | 125,513 | 144,670 | 168,792 | 17 | na | |
Sessions per user | 1.3 | 1.18 | 1.2 | 1.21 | 1.22 | 1 | -6 | |
Av. session duration | 0:46 | 0.44 | 0:56 | 1:01 | 1:10 | 15 | 52 | |
Pages per session | 1.39 | 1.49 | 1.55 | 1.68 | 1.78 | 6 | 28 | |
Bounce rate | 80% | 75% | 14% | 9% | 10% | 5 | -88 | |
Black=grew or stayed static | ||||||||
Red=lost ground | ||||||||
Goal: Understand what drives traffic to the site | ||||||||
Percentage of total site traffic. | Q1 2022 Previous site | Q2 2022 Previous site | Q3 2022 | Q4 2022 | Q1 2023 | % change over LQ | % change over LY | |
Organic search (SEO) | 19% | 16% | 26% | 25% | 30% | 20 | 58 | |
Direct | 50% | 45% | 50% | 54% | 50% | -7 | 0 | |
Referral | 1% | 1.3% | 2.7% | 2.6% | 2.6% | 0 | 117 | |
1% | 5% | 4.0% | 3.1% | 2.7% | -13 | 108 | ||
Social | 2% | 2.1% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 3.3% | 83 | 106 | |
Black=grew or stayed static | ||||||||
Red=lost ground | ||||||||
Goal: Improve organic traffic | ||||||||
Organic search engine results are closely tied to best practices like user experience, accessibility, interest-driven content, keyword research, and on-page SEO optimization. | Q1 2022 Previous site | Q2 2022 Previous site | Q3 2022 | Q4 2022 | Q1 2023 | % change over LQ | % change over LY | |
Sessions from organic search | 90,225 | 83,875 | 30,042 | 81,642 | 100,511 | 23 | 11 | |
Black=grew or stayed static | ||||||||
Red=lost ground | ||||||||
Goal: Grow traffic from campaigns | ||||||||
How much traffic are campaigns bringing to the site? | Q1 2022 Previous site | Q2 2022 Previous site | Q3 2022 | Q4 2022 | Q1 2023 | % change over LQ | % change over LY | |
Sessions with campaign UTM | 129,368 | 102,456 | 21,225 | 56,367 | 52,806 | -6 | -59 | |
Percent of total sessions with campaign UTM | 25% | 19% | 6.35% | 17% | 15% | -12 | -40 | |
Black=grew or stayed static | ||||||||
Red=lost ground | ||||||||
Goal: User conversions | ||||||||
Form completion is the only conversion on the site. This metric indicates strong interest from the visitors and provides contact information. | Q1 2022 Previous site | Q2 2022 Previous site | Q3 2022 | Q4 2022 | Q1 2023 | % change over LQ | % change over LY | |
Sessions with form fills | na | na | 216 | 539 | 762 | 41 | na | |
Percent of total sessions with form fills | na | na | 0.06% | 0.17% | 0.23% | 35 | na | |
Black=grew or stayed static | ||||||||
Red=lost ground | ||||||||
Goals: Interest-driven content | ||||
Page views by Topic tag: Which topics are getting the most attention on the site? Are these viable topic for more content? | Q3 2022 | Q4 2022 | Q1 2023 | |
Alternatives | 2,302 | 7,885 | 4,742 | |
Business growth and scale | 2,520 | 2,363 | ||
Community | 1,784 | 4,088 | 2,258 | |
Culture | 1,681 | 2,265 | ||
Cybersecurity | 3,642 | 9,333 | ||
Data management | 1,177 | 775 | ||
Economics/Investments and economy | 3,233 | 6,481 | ||
ESG | 1,823 | 2,165 | 2,782 | |
Fiduciary management | 992 | 528 | ||
Financial planning | 2,183 | 1,630 | 2,224 | |
Fintech | 1,620 | 1,325 | ||
Goals-based | 4,242 | 6,450 | ||
Investment outsourcing | 11,449 | 14,113 | ||
Investment philosophy | 1,524 | 1,858 | ||
Investor relations | 8,200 | 20,967 | 21,531 | |
Master Trust | 3,232 | 2,526 | ||
Retirement planning | 1,471 | 1,457 | ||
Strategies and funds | 1,265 | 2,409 | ||
tax management | 2,948 | |||
Technology | 2,434 | 1,680 | ||
Wealth technology | 3,046 | 4,277 |