How to Do a SWOT Analysis of a Website Based on Competitors

Today, SWOT analysis of websites — one of the most effective tools in management and marketing. This method gives you a clear picture of any object under study, along with its strengths and weaknesses.

     With a SWOT analysis, a researcher can identify the weak and strong points of a company, a product or a specific business process, reduce risks and threats by reinforcing the strengths, and choose the right direction for further development.

What is a SWOT analysis?

     Marketing research of websites is carried out to work out an effective strategy for the further development of the website and to assess how the company performs in its segment.

     A solid analysis of marketing information helps set development priorities and choose effective ways to run the website. 

     By definition, SWOT analysis is a method that reveals the weak and strong sides of an object, identifies the risks and threats to its successful development, and shows the available opportunities to improve the situation. It is a special technique that forms the basis of strategic planning.

The main function of a SWOT analysis — identifying the factors that affect the object of analysis. The analysis looks at 4 categories:

• strengths;
• weaknesses;
• opportunities;
• threats.

The first two are under the object's control, the last two — outside it. The analysis is done for the whole company or for a single service. It is needed in cases like these:

• the company has many new employees;
• product prices are high;
• there is no delivery system for goods;
• requests are processed slowly;
• there is no business development strategy;
• sales need a boost.

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How to do a  SWOT analysis based on competitors

     A SWOT analysis requires an objective outside view of the company's results. To process data on internal processes properly, a SWOT analysis uses a special table split into the four categories described above.

     Each block of this matrix is a list of important questions that need clear answers during the analysis:

1. Strengths:

• what makes your product better than your competitors';
• what its advantages and unique features are;
• what makes your company attractive to customers.

2. Weaknesses:

• what obstacles stand in the way of the company's growth;
• what risks and problems are possible;
• whether customers complain, and about what exactly.

3. Opportunities:

• what needs to and can be changed in the work;
• whether additional resources are available;
• how beneficial the latest trends are for the business.

4. Threats:

• what market processes affect demand for the products;
• how active the competitors are;
• whether there are legal and political factors that could hurt the company's performance.

     The completed data should be discussed with the team to gather more opinions and material for the analysis. For this, every employee should answer these questions. Then department heads systematize, filter and process the information, and the strategy for further development takes shape.