Returning visitors metric shows the number of people who have visited and revisited a website. With that data, you can see how effective your marketing strategy is at retaining an audience. The returning visitor metric can also be used to see how your content marketing strategy impacts your audience’s behavior.
Returning visitors
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We checked 59 hospital websites. 73% kept tracking visitors after opt-out.
A new study by Piwik PRO and Verified Data scanned 59 major US hospital and clinic websites for tracking and data compliance. The findings show just how common it is for major US healthcare websites to run marketing tools that weren’t built for a regulated environment. What we actually found Across the 59 scanned sites,…
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HEALTHCARE WEBSITE TRACKING REPORT 2026: Are healthcare companies one audit away from a compliance crisis?
A research-backed analysis of tracking practices across 59 US healthcare websites – and what organizations should do about it.
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