Web Analytics

The Acquisition reports provide insight into the source of traffic (how users find the website) and subsequent behavior. Channels: Default set of categories to which traffic sources are grouped Source/Medium: Granular view of traffic sources Referrals: Websites which refer traffic via links Adwords: Adwords campaign tracking Search Console: GWT tracking (Google organic search) [...]

Acquisition Channels reporting provides an overview view of information on the sources of traffic to your website. This suite of reports uses Google's default channel organization to categorize traffic sources into basic categories such as referrals, organic search, direct, email, social, etc. Overview Acquisition Channels reporting provides an overview view of information on the sources of traffic [...]

Acquisition Source / Medium reports provide basic information on the traffic source and traffic medium of your website users. At a glance the Source / Medium reports look very similar to Channel Reports. However, source medium is a bit more granular and can be customized based on how advertising campaigns are tagged. Overview Acquisition Source / Medium reports [...]

The Referrals report provides basic traffic on conversion metrics as they related to websites which link to yours and send you traffic. Here, you'll see a list of domains which have sent traffic during the selected period. Overview The Referrals report provides basic traffic on conversion metrics as they related to websites which link to yours and send [...]

Overview Acquisition Adwords is an entire reporting section dedicated to reporting on your Google Adwords efforts. We're only covering this section for the sake of creating a comprehensive Google Analytics report. In a future lesson, we'll cover a better way to report on your Adwords and other paid media efforts. The Adwords reporting area [...]

Overview The Acquisition Search Console reporting section links directly with Google Webmaster Tools (known as GWT) and matches Google organic search data from GWT with standard Google Analytics KPIs. This reporting section does not include data from any search engines other than Google. Landing Pages: Organic search landing pages and related KPIs. Countries: [...]

The Behavior Reports provide insight into the source of traffic (how users find the website) and subsequent behavior. Site Content: Top pages, content drilldown, landing pages, exit pages Site Search: Track what users search for once they are on your website Events: Specific user actions

Overview The Site Content reporting sections provides a few different content-focused views showing how users interact with your site content. All Pages: Report which provides behavioral stats on each individual page of your website. Content Drilldown: Similar to the "all Pages" report but instead groups pages by the sub-directory which they reside on your [...]

Overview The Behavior Site Search reports provide analysis on your website's internal search feature. In these reports, you'll learn a few things about user behavior: Usage: The Search Usage report will compare the number of sessions where your internal search tool used with sessions where your search tool is not used. Search Terms: Report [...]

Conversion reports highlight our various conversion points and allow for deeper analysis. Goals tracking: Tracking user goals such as form submits, newsletter subscribes, and other objectives which we’ve set. Ecommerce tracking: Tracking website revenue, product sales, and other transaction information. While conversion data is included in most GA reports, the conversion section allows for [...]

Overview We've been looking at goal-related metrics throughout this entire course. They are embedded into each and every report because of their importance in analysis. Goals are user activities which you'd like to track as specific objectives. Think of goals like this. You have a website, you have content, you have traffic. But what's [...]

Overview As with Goal Reporting, Ecommerce data flows throughout the other reports in Google Analytics so we often use those reports more than the Ecommerce section specifically. That said, the Ecommerce Conversion reporting area provides all your main revenue tracking stats. Transactions, revenue, top products, product category reporting, etc. are all tracked here. Sample [...]

Google Analytics custom reports provide you the capability to create custom data views which cut-to-the-chase of your key metrics. Best of all, they are really easy to create! Up until now, we've learned about the "out of the box" Google Analytics reports. The truth is though, if you can master custom reports, you may [...]

Overview In that last topic, we briefly talked about the "Dummy Report." Maybe not the most professional name but here's the point. Sometimes (often), you'll need to create a very simple report view for a stakeholder (either smart or a dummy) which only pulls very specific information which will help them understand what's [...]