{"id":312,"date":"2018-07-23T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/?p=312"},"modified":"2021-06-28T08:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T05:21:53","slug":"best-google-analytics-reports-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/best-google-analytics-reports-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Google Analytics Reports for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google analytics can give you a lot of information about your web site and if you are a beginner you can easily get lost in the reports.<\/p>\n

My goal with this post is to explain and demonstrate the 7 best reports to help beginners understand some basic information about their web site.<\/p>\n

These are the absolute essentials for any webmaster looking to answer the 4 w’s (‘what’, ‘when’, ‘where’ and ‘who’).<\/p>\n

Google Analytics Basic Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. How many visits do I get per day and from where?<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. How many users are visiting from Desktop \/ Mobile \/ Tablet?<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Which are the most popular pages of my site?<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Which pages do people see first (landing pages) when they visit my site?<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. How many people are viewing my web site right now?<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. What buttons do users click as they browse my web site?<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. What time of the day I receive the most visits?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1. How many visits do I get per day and from where?<\/h2>\n

    This is a report I run on a daily basis. You can view this report by selecting ACQUISITION > All Traffic > Source \/ Medium<\/b><\/p>\n

    What this report shows is the number of visits and their origin for the selected period.<\/p>\n

    You can see how many visits are coming from search (i.e. organic), how many visits are direct etc.<\/p>\n

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    Traffic by Source \/ Medium Report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    On the top bar (below the graph) you can also see, among other things:<\/p>\n