{"id":342,"date":"2001-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/managing-well-means-measuring-well\/"},"modified":"2001-06-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-06-16T00:00:00","slug":"managing-well-means-measuring-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/managing-well-means-measuring-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing well means measuring well."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too many web sites were launched with only the vaguest of missions &#8211;&#8220;beat the competition&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;don&#8217;t embarrass us&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;don&#8217;t spend too much&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;do something with a database.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>So it is no surprise that the majority of sites are little-used money-losers. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to run a race when you don&#8217;t know where the finish line lies, who you are competing against, and what the distance is. <\/p>\n<p>Page views and unique users have become two common measures, but unfortunately, say little about a site&#8217;s health.   <\/p>\n<p>Can portals averaging 50 million page-views a month really be called a success if the cost is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinity.plc.uk\/press\/pr14-03-01.html\">\u00a350 million <\/a> a year, barge-loads of management distraction and angry shareholders?  Hardly. <\/p>\n<p>Pressflex provides powerful tools for evaluating your web strategy&#8217;s efficiency and probable long-term success. Step back to see if your strategy measures up&#8230; your shareholders will thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many web sites were launched with only the vaguest of missions &#8211;&#8220;beat the competition&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;don&#8217;t embarrass us&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;don&#8217;t spend too much&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;do something with a database.&#8221; So it is no surprise that the majority of sites are little-used money-losers. It&#8217;s hard to run a race when you don&#8217;t know where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}