What is Google Analytics? How it is useful for any business?
Google Analytics is a free Web
analytics service that provides statistics and basic analytical tools for
search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing purposes.
Google analytics is used to track the website activity of
the users such as session duration, pages per session, bounce rate etc. along
with the information on the source of the traffic. It can be integrated with
Google Adwords, with which users can review online campaigns by tracking
landing page quality and conversions. Goals might include sales, lead
generation, viewing a specific page, or downloading a particular File. Google
Analytics approach is to show high-level, dashboard type data for the
casual user, and more in-depth data further into the report set. Google
Analytics analysis can identify poorly performing pages with techniques such as
funnel visualization, where visitors came from referrers. How long they stayed
on the website and their geographical position.
It also provides more advanced features, including custom
visitor segmentation. Google Analytics reporting of e-commerce sites can
track sales activity and performance. The e-commerce reports shows a site's
transactions, revenue, and many other commerce-related metrics.
On September 29, 2011, Google Analytics launched Real Time analytics; it
helps the user to have insight about visitors currently on the site. A
user can have 100 site profiles.
Each profile generally corresponds to one website/blog. It is limited to
sites which have traffic of fewer than 5 million page views per month unless
the site is linked to an Google Ad Word campaign. It is beneficial to
marketers and analysts for successful implementation of a marketing strategy.
Analytics makes it easy to
understand how your site and app users are engaging with your content, so you
know what’s working and what’s not. See how people are interacting with your
sites and apps and the role that different channels play by viewing robust
reports and dashboards. You can even connect systems used to measure CRM,
points of sale, and other touchpoints with your customers for a more complete
view. Google Analytics data processing starts with the categorization of
data into users and sessions. First, Google
Analytics determines new vs. returning users. When a user lands
on a page with tracking code, Google Analytics creates a random, unique ID
associated with the user's browser cookie.
The service is available to
anyone with a Google account. Google bought Urchin Software
Corporation in April 2005 and used that company’s Urchin on Demand product as
the basis for its current service.
How Google Analytics works?
Google Analytics is
implemented with “Page tags” in this case, called the Google Analytics Tracking
Code, which is a snippet of Javascript code that the website owner adds to
every page of the website. The tracking code runs in the client browser when
the client browses the page and collects visitor data and sends it to a Google
data collection server as part of a request for a web beacon.
What is Google Analytics Dashboard?
Google Analytics Dashboards are simply collections
of widgets that allow you to quickly visualize your data. Each view / property
includes a default dashboard to get you started. To access your dashboards, click on Dashboards in the left side menu of
your Google Analytics.
Dashboards are a collection
of widgets that give you an overview of the reports and metrics you care about
most. Dashboards let you monitor many metrics at once, so you can quickly check
the health of your accounts or see correlations between different reports.
Dashboards are easy to create, customize and share. A widget is a
mini-report that can display your data in a number of presentation styles,
including simple numeric metrics, tables and charts. You can define widgets
within the Dashboard itself. Widgets can also provide snapshots of and link to
standard or custom reports.
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