Finding the Difference Between Mobile and Desktop Visitors

Since Google has announced the types of online moments most relevant to a customer, we need to understand what our market is doing on our websites. The sooner we can deliver the information they want, the more useful we become to our users. One of the ways to identify these online moments is to dive into Google Analytics.

Here’s a case for leveraging Google Analytics:

In an initial look at one of our clients, we found that one of the differences between mobile users and desktop users was  page views on certain pages.

What else did we find?

A lack of page views and a higher bounce rate on mobile for the Build and Price page and the Our Dealership/About Us page.

What does it mean?

If clicks could vote, they wouldn’t vote for those pages. It’s not that users don’t care about those pages, it’s just that they’re browsing with a different intent than if they were on desktop. So where did these users go? Most mobile users ended up exiting the website on inventory pages. They found the information they wanted, then left.

This means we should cater to what mobile users want and don’t want. Knowing this information, we’re not going to create sitelinks or set landing pages for content which isn’t useful or relevant to mobile users. Doing that doesn’t help the client.

Mobile optimization requires a different perspective and approach, and Google provides the tools needed to make decisions for mobile optimizations. The analysts at Strathcom can identify those optimizations which benefit Paid-Search performance and your company’s objectives and goals.