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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
Email 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