Why Traffic Volume Misleads Teams
Volume is the easiest thing to measure and one of the least useful things to act on. Teams working only from traffic numbers repeatedly run into the same problems:
- A spike in visits can carry no commercial value whatsoever
- The most valuable visitor of the week is invisible inside an average
- Nobody can tell a first-time browser from a third-time evaluator
- Referral sources are recorded but rarely connected to outcomes
- Behaviour that signals a decision in progress goes unnoticed
- Reports arrive on a schedule that has nothing to do with buying cycles