As we had already discussed before the subscription and installation process of Google Analytics on our website, its time to know how to use it properly and effectively. Now that Google Analytics is installed correctly on your site, you should receive the first data on the audience of your website (provided of course to have visitors). The use appears to be very simple. The views are consistent. Once you have mastered a view, you will not have problems understanding others views of the application. The various reports are grouped into several groups:
- Scoreboard: Resumes the key data from other reports for an overview of the site
- Visitors: Contains all data from visitors to your site.
- Traffic Sources: Contains data on the different sources that brought you the traffic
- Description: Contains detailed information on the contents of the site
- Alerts & Objectives: To set goals and check whether these objectives are achieved. We will not discuss these reports in this article, it is already advanced use of Google Analytics
Home:
The home page of your Google Analytics shows you the essential information on your different sites:
- Status: Indicates if Analytics is receiving data from your site
- Visits: Indicates the number of visits over the period set
- Average time spent on the site: The average time of a visit to your site
- Bounce Rate: The percentage of visits to a single page. That is to say the percentage of visits during which the person left your site from the entrance page.
- Objectives achieved: The number of goals achieved
- Change (%): The evolution from the previous period. You can change the period with the buttons in the top right.
These are really basic information, but they are proving very useful to have an overview of the different sites analyzed. You can access the detailed report of a site using the link "View Report" which is available for each site.
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