1. Separate Lockport location from marketing evidence
A location label alone cannot tell you whether a particular practice area, page or channel produces qualified inquiries. Lockport is a municipality in Will County, Illinois. That geographic fact can help your firm define the market it wants to examine, but it cannot prove that residents are searching for a service, that competitors are winning those searches, or that a given page will produce a case. Attribution is useful because it moves the discussion from assumptions about place to records of actual journeys. You can examine the source, landing page, intake information and later outcome for people who contact the firm, rather than treating the population estimate as a forecast.
Recommended approach
Start with a clear geographic question: which inquiries identified as serving Lockport or Will County should be reviewed, and how will your firm distinguish location from practice area, source and case outcome? Confirm the definitions before using the data for budget decisions.
