Features and Benefits
IndexTools is a comprehensive website reporting system that provides real-time insight into visitor behavior, and helps marketers and site managers increase sales, reduce marketing costs and encourage visitor retention.

Executive Dashboards
Feature
Provide quickly comprehensible snapshot of key performance metrics, enabling you to set goals, track progress and identify danger points.

Benefit
Acquire control of key business data, allowing you to easily create and customize your dashboard pages according to need.
Path Explorer
Feature
Determine your most profitable web links and navigation paths, and identify usability bottlenecks that result in site-abandonment. Optimize your layout and the placement of your call-to-action to increase traffic flow.

Benefit
Analyze the relative popularity of your links and obtain real-time click performance data superimposed on your web pages. Track complex dynamic websites applications, which includes DHTML, flash, redirects, image maps, forms, etc. and have results displayed in an easy-to-use user interface.
Custom reporting
Add or subtract metrics within a given report using the Custom Report Wizard. If you like the result, you can bookmark that report for future use.
Custom Fields
Expand the reporting capabilities of the IndexTools system by adding your specific reporting categories to the pre-defined structures already available and receiving reports broken down by your categories.

Benefit
Customize our reports to your business's unique requirements. Get exactly the metrics you need, when and where you need them. For example, with Custom Fields, you can mirror your online catalogue structure in your analytics reporting and record different price ranges and brands for your shopping site, or you can record additional information specific to your business' booking engine, e.g., travel destination, length of stay, day of the week, membership type, ticket type (economy or business class) etc. for a travel site.
Marketing Workflow Management
Feature
Monitor events, e.g., website changes, public holidays, system outages, that affect your website, and get a comprehensive analysis of their effects on your website's statistics. Stay in control of your website's performance by setting up customized email alerts for you and your colleagues. Use color coding to visualize report results and to easily identify irregularities. Improve communication between you and your colleagues by sharing notes, document findings, and company procedures on Reports and Executive Dashboards.

Benefit
Acquire more control and a better understanding of your website's performance through easy to use management features that enhance your viewing and provide you with close monitoring and analysis.
Advanced Live Cost Analysis
Feature
CPC Live Cost Analysis pulls together dynamic price information from the leading PPC search engines with the revenue earned on your website. Now IndexTools provides an additional level of reporting accuracy by consolidating the live data collected by the reporting system with data provided by the paid search engines (currently Google and Yahoo!).

Benefit
Measure the ROI of your paid search campaigns, keyword by keyword. Increase revenues without spending more. Resolves data inconsistency between Indextools data and Paid Search reports.
Advanced Campaign Management
Feature
Track your marketing campaign results. Associate costs with campaigns - including CPC, CPM and CPA cost models. Define hierarchical categories to organize your report display.

Benefit
Measure the ROI of your marketing campaigns and optimize your marketing budget. Analyze your results across categories you define.
Real-time Segmentation
Feature
Analyze how different groups of visitors respond to your campaign landing pages, page layouts, calls to action, and more.

Benefit
Identify your most lucrative visitors and optimize your offer.
Advanced Merchandise Reporting
Feature
Track the individual products your customers purchase, add to their shopping cart, and preview. Define categories for your products, and create custom reports. Update your reports to reflect cancelled orders or changes to order amounts by sending API requests to the system.
Perform cross-sell analysis to see how often products are purchased in combination with other products, ranked according to value. Upload your individual products costs and calculate how each campaign contributes to your profits.
Benefit
Increase revenues by identifying and promoting your most profitable products. Identify customer purchasing patterns and optimize your promotional strategy. Stay in control of your website's performance by continuously maintaining your live systems and your website reporting updated.
Increase your profits by mapping how each promotional campaign translates into product revenue.
Scenario Analysis
Feature
Analyze the steps your visitors take through any multi-step process, for example a purchase or a form submission. Redefine your process and the changes apply to historical data, too.

Benefit
Troubleshoot your most popular paths to sale, and reduce shopping cart abandonment.
Comparative Reporting
Feature
Examine the results for two time periods, side-by-side on the same page. If you regularly need that report you can bookmark it for future use.

Benefit
Learn how your website performance develops from month to month. Use past results as a benchmark for improvement.
Advanced Path Analysis
Feature
Identify the most popular paths your visitors pursue through your website, mapped out in a hierarchical tree structure.

Benefit
The user can expand the branches of this tree to follow visitor movement through as many levels of navigation as needed.
AskIT™- The IndexTools Tutor
Feature
Provides a plain-language executive summary of the data on screen. Mouse over a row in the report and AskIT™ Tutor appears. Copy and paste the summary to use in company reporting.

Benefit
AskIT™ helps you make sense of your web analytics reports by providing a plain-language executive summary of the data on screen.
The Bid Management Retrieval Edition
Feature
Retrieve, modify, and automate your paid search campaigns across multiple search engines on a unified web analytics interface.
Benefit
Eliminate the time-consuming and error-prone tasks of manually setting up and maintaining campaigns with a straightforward one-click setup process, and enjoy ongoing accuracy with little or no user involvement.
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