How to conduct a CRO audit for your web with Pathmonk

Step by Step: Conducting a CRO Audit with Pathmonk Intelligence 

FREE TEMPLATE: Optimize your website with our easy step-by-step CRO guide and boost your conversions

Signs that prompt a CRO audit include high bounce rates, low conversion rates despite decent traffic, declining performance metrics, and discrepancies between traffic and conversions. However, traditional analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Hotjar often fall short in providing the depth of insights necessary for effective CRO. 

For instance, Google Analytics can provide metrics like bounce rates and session duration, but it may not offer insights into why visitors are bouncing or why certain pages have low conversion rates. Similarly, Hotjar’s heatmaps and user recordings can highlight areas of user engagement or interaction, but they may not provide the nuanced understanding of user motivations and preferences required for meaningful optimization. These tools may also struggle to attribute causes for underperformance accurately, making it challenging for marketers to prioritize optimization efforts effectively.

So, this is how you can leverage Pathmonk Intelligence to conduct a thorough CRO audits:

1. Buying Journey Report

• Metrics to check: Visitors, Bounced Rate, Awareness Rate, Consideration Rate, Decision Rate, Conversion Rate
• Why: Provides an overview of overall website traffic and user engagement. High bounce rates or low awareness rate may indicate issues with user experience that need optimization.

2. Web Pages Report

• Metrics to check: Engagement Rate, Average Time Spent, Time to Interaction, Conversions Influenced
• Why: Evaluates the performance of individual landing pages in terms of traffic, bounce rates, and conversion rates. Identifies high-performing pages that effectively drive conversions and low-performing pages that may require optimization to improve conversion rates.

3. Visited Pages (Web Pages Report)

• Metrics to check: Flow visualization, Drop-off Points.
• Why: Visualizes the paths users take through the website and identifies drop-off points or bottlenecks in the conversion funnel. Helps understand user behavior and optimize website navigation to guide users towards conversion actions more effectively.

What Is a CRO Audit -And Why Does Your Website Need One?

A CRO audit is a comprehensive evaluation of a website or digital platform to identify areas for improvement to increase the rate at which visitors take a desired action, such as making a purchase, signing up for a newsletter, or filling out a form.

During a CRO audit, various aspects of the website are examined, including user experience, design elements, navigation structure, content effectiveness, call-to-action placements, loading speed, and overall usability. The audit may involve quantitative analysis, such as studying website analytics data to identify drop-off points in the conversion funnel, as well as qualitative analysis, such as user testing and feedback collection.

So why does your website need a CRO audit?

• Identifying Barriers to Conversion: As we’ve just mentioned, a CRO audit helps identify any obstacles preventing visitors from completing desired actions on your site. 
• Improving User Experience: By analyzing user behavior and feedback, a CRO audit can uncover areas where the user experience can be enhanced. This might involve simplifying the checkout process, optimizing forms for mobile devices, or improving site search functionality. Happier users = better results.
• Increasing ROI: Improving conversion rates directly impacts your bottom line by maximizing the value of your website traffic. A CRO audit can pinpoint opportunities to generate more leads, sales, or other valuable conversions without increasing your marketing budget.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: By studying metrics such as bounce rate, time on page, and conversion funnels, you can make strategic adjustments to improve performance.
• Staying Competitive: A CRO audit can uncover insights into industry best practices and emerging trends that can give you a competitive edge.
• Enhancing SEO: While the primary focus of a CRO audit is on improving conversion rates, many of the optimization strategies implemented can also benefit your SEO efforts. For example, improving page load speed and optimizing content for relevance can positively impact your search engine rankings.

Pathmonk Intelligence: The Solution for Understanding Your Conversion Rate 

Conducting a CRO audit is not an easy task, especially for those marketers who have never faced this challenge before. It implies diving deep into the intricacies of website performance, user behavior, and conversion pathways. This process demands a meticulous approach to data collection and analysis, and it traditionally required marketers to gather insights from various sources such as web analytics platforms, heatmaps, user recordings, and feedback tools. Thanks to Pathmonk Intelligence, this complexity belongs to the past. This is how Intelligence eases the entire process:

• Data Collection and Analysis: Gathering relevant data from various sources and analyzing it effectively can be a daunting task. Pathmonk Intelligence simplifies this process by offering a centralized data hub. It aggregates data from multiple sources, including web analytics platforms, heatmaps, user recordings, and user feedback tools. This streamlined approach saves time and effort, allowing marketers to focus on deriving actionable insights from the data rather than struggling with data collection and management.

• Identifying Priorities: With numerous areas for improvement identified during the audit, prioritizing which issues to tackle first can be challenging. Pathmonk Intelligence provides precise attribution modeling, offering accurate attribution data to help marketers prioritize optimization efforts based on their potential impact on conversion rate. By identifying the most impactful areas for optimization, Pathmonk Intelligence helps marketers allocate resources effectively and focus on initiatives that drive tangible results.

• Technical Limitations: Implementing optimization recommendations often requires technical changes to the website, which can be hindered by platform limitations or resource constraints. Pathmonk Intelligence addresses this challenge by operating without cookies and seamlessly integrating into websites without developer involvement. This independence from technical dependencies empowers marketers to take control of their analytics processes and implement optimization initiatives without being hindered by technical barriers.

• Resource Constraints: Collaboration across multiple teams and limited resources in terms of time, budget, and personnel can pose challenges to executing optimization initiatives effectively. Pathmonk Intelligence streamlines data collection and analysis, simplifies attribution modeling, and eliminates the need for technical involvement, reducing reliance on resource-intensive processes. This allows marketers to optimize conversion pathways more efficiently and achieve meaningful improvements in conversion rates without straining limited resources.

How to Add Pathmonk Intelligence to Your Marketing Stack

Step 1: Set Up Your Pathmonk Intelligence Account

If you want a hands-on test of how Pathmonk Intelligence works and what it can do for you, sign up for a Free Demo. This hands-on experience will provide you with valuable insights into how Pathmonk Intelligence can work to your advantage. 

Alternatively, you can start your journey directly with Pathmonk Intelligence by signing up for an account.