Google Analytics plays an important role in making important business decisions. 'Introduction to Google Analytics' sheds light on basics of Analytics and it's setup.
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Audience
Demographics
Interests
Geo Location
Language
Device
Network
Engagement/Behaviour
Acquisition
Organic/Paid
Direct/Referral
Keywords
Costs analysis
Social activity
Behaviour
Content
Events tracking
Experiments
Conversions
Value
Conversions
Conversion paths
Attributions
Sales Performance
Goal Flow
Focus on Ecommerce
5. Overall Goal of Analytics
Understand which traffic sources are driving which visitors to do what
Entry Behaviour/ Exit
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Engagement
Goals
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Useless Facts
● Acquired by Google in April 2005
● Largest Web Analytics tool. Over 10 Million websites
currently use Google Analytics
● Over 10 Million hits processed per month per website
● Offers 80+ Reports
● Easily integrated with Google AdWords
● Tracks mobile Websites and Mobile Apps
● Most of all, its completely FREE
8. A GIF hit is created
and sent to the
Google servers
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GA UI API
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How Google Analytics Works
Your Website loads on any device First-party GA cookies
Data made available in the user
interface or through the API
The GA javascript
begins to fire
are read from, and/or
written to the browser
by the javascript code
Data is processed and pre-aggregated
Data is sent to Google’s servers
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Setting up a Google Analytics Account
Step1
www.google.com/anaytics/
11. Non-Google Account Users
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Setting up a Google Analytics Account
Step2: Use existing Google Account or Create a new Account
Google Account Users
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Setting up a Google Analytics Account
Step3: Choose either
website or App, and
then Choose between
Universal or Classic
Analytics
*Web Property is
the website URL
you are tracking
through Google
Analytics
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Setting up a Google Analytics Account
Step4: Install Code on your website
Done!
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Go to tool for:
● CEO
● Marketing team
● Sales team
● Content developers
● Publishers
● Ad Pros
● Affiliates
● SMM/SEO/SEM Pro