Whether you maintain a blog for hobby or for a company, you need to know how to determine if your blog is a success or not. To determine this, you need to monitor the online traffic that visits your blog. Google Analytics is an excellent tool to have to do that. Once you do that, you need to know the Google Analytics metrics to monitor to determine if your blog is reaching the intended audience and is performing as it should or not.  RELATED: Do I need to set up Google Analytics for my website? How will it help my business grow?  Consider this scenario: You have 2 blog posts. The first blog post receives a 100 hits per day, but all of the traffic leaves your domain within 10 seconds of your website loading in their browser. You have another blog post that gets only 75 visitors per day, but almost all of those visitors spend few minutes browsing through all the other pages or posts on your website. Which blog post will you consider to be more successful, blog post 1 or 2? and why? To co