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API Analytics for Product Managers

By : Deepa Goyal
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API Analytics for Product Managers

By: Deepa Goyal

Overview of this book

APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation? API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development. Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals. By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

Discovery

Web analytics on your developer web pages can tell you which pages send the most traffic to your site and how easy it is for customers to find their way around and use the information you give them. The following diagram shows the metrics that you can use to measure the discoverability of your APIs:

Figure 11.3 – Product metrics to measure the discoverability of your APIs

Figure 11.3 – Product metrics to measure the discoverability of your APIs

In the sections that follow, you will learn more about the different metrics that measure different parts of how easy it is to find your APIs.

Unique visitors

Unique visitors on your developer site are counted as any users who have visited your site for the first time and will not be recounted if they visit again. Most web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics and Heap Analytics, provide the ability to get unique visitor counts for any web page as a starting point for web analytics.

Unique visitor counts can help you figure out whether your site is interesting...