Understanding visitors by organization type

Most web analytics tools explain what visitors do: which pages they view, how they arrived and whether they completed an action. They usually do not tell you what type of organization a visit may come from or the organization’s name. This extra context from Snoobi can make website data much more useful for sales, communications, content planning and public services.

How Snoobi Analytics adds organizational context to web analytics

In addition to the standard website metrics, Snoobi uses a proprietary global organization database to associate an internet connection with a registered organization where reliable information is available. This can show, for example, whether visits originate from a business, government body, educational institution, internet service provider, cloud provider or data centre.

Important: organization recognition identifies an organization or network, never an individual person. Some visits cannot be matched, and residential or shared networks may appear as an internet service provider rather than as the visitor’s employer or organization.

Why organization information is useful

  • Prioritize relevant interest: See whether important prospects, customers, partners, public institutions or educational organizations are engaging with your content.
  • Understand audiences more clearly: Compare the pages, traffic sources and topics that attract different kinds of organizations.
  • Improve lead and account insight: Recognize repeat interest from a known organization even when no form has been submitted, while keeping the analysis at organization level.
  • Separate meaningful visits from infrastructure traffic: Filter internet service providers, hosting environments, cloud platforms, bots and scrapers when they would otherwise distort human-focused reporting.
  • Support better decisions: Use organizational context to improve content, outreach, campaign evaluation, public information and service design.

 


Organization types used by Snoobi

Snoobi groups recognized organizations into the following categories.
These groups can be used as filters throughout the analytics reports.

Code

Type

Meaning

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Not yet classified

The organization has been recognized but its type has not been confirmed yet

ISP

Internet service provider

Primarily provides residential or shared internet access

GOV

Government

National, regional, municipal and other public-sector organizations

EDU

Education

Schools, universities and related educational institutions

ORG

Organization

Commercial companies, non-profits, associations and other institutes

CLD

Cloud or data centre

Cloud platforms, hosting providers and data-centre networks

 

Create your own labels

Snoobi clients can also add account-specific labels to recognized organizations, such as customer, prospect, partner or ignore. Reports can then be filtered by both Snoobi's standard organization type and the labels relevant to your own organization. You can also add a note to an organization for additional information.

Keeping the database current

Organization data changes continually as organizations move, merge, rename themselves or change internet providers.
Snoobi's support team maintains and updates the global database on an ongoing basis.
Recognition and classification should be treated as useful analytical context rather than as an infallible identity source.

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