Actionable Data for Google Analytics Beginners
Jan 26, 2015
Actionable Data for Google Analytics Beginners
In this presentation, get the following must-know answers about your website performance:
• Where is my traffic coming from?• Which of my pages are most popular?• Which pages are people seeing first?• What technology are people using to visit my site?
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The Dashboard
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The Dashboard Defined
1) Sessions – Total number of visits to your site in a given
time frame
2) Users – Users that have had at least one session within
the selected date range. Includes both new and returning
user
3) Pageviews – Total number of pages within the website
visitors have been to
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The Dashboard Defined, cont.
4) Pages/Session– Average number of pages a visitor will
browse in one visit to your website
5) Avg. Session Duration – Average time a visitor spends
on your website
6) Bounce Rate – Percentage of visitors who navigate
away from your website after visiting only one page
7) % New Sessions – Percentage of total visits that are
new to your website in the given time frame
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Where is my traffic coming from?
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View how people are getting to
your website
Where is my traffic coming from? DefinedOrganic – Visits to your site through a search engine (e.g.
Google, Bing, Yahoo)
Referral – Visits to your site through another website
(none) – Visits through an unrecognized source, such as
an email or digital newsletter
Social – Visits through a social network (note: some may
also be lumped within “referral” – so this amount is not
always accurate)
(not set) – Placeholder value from Google when it does
not receive enough information from the visit
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Where is my traffic coming from?
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1 See what websites are referring the most visitors
to yours
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Where is my traffic coming from?
Click on URLs to view most popular
referral pages (this example:
most popular tweets)
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Which of my pages are most popular?
These are the most viewed
pages on your website in your set time frame
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your homepage
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Which of my pages are most popular?
Type in parts of the website URL to examine
most popular within a segment (e.g. blog
pages, products or services)
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Which pages are people seeing first?
Visitors are getting to
your website primarily through
these pages (either through
social media, other sites, a web search,
etc.)
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What technology are people using to visit my site?
Find out how many
visitors are using
desktops, mobile or tablets to visit your
site
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