This document provides an overview of Google Analytics and how it can be used to track web traffic and visitor behavior on a website. It describes how Google Analytics works by signing up for an account, pasting the tracking code on website pages, and viewing daily metrics in the dashboard. Key reports are outlined that provide information on visitors, traffic sources, and top content, to understand visits, bounce rates, entrance pages, search terms, locations, and more. Setup involves pasting the code below the </body> tag on every page to automatically track analytics across the site.
2. What it does
Daily, monthly, yearly tracking of web visits
Graphed over time
Which pages they go to, how long they stay
Bounce rate
Entrance pages
How they got there
Search engines and Search terms used
Location, operating system, monitor resolution
Over 80 reports available
3. How it works
Sign up for Google Analytics
https://www.google.com/analytics/
They return code to you
You paste the code just below the </body> tag
Put it on EVERY page
Edit>Find and Replace is easiest option
Put it in your template pages, so it will be
automatically on every page
Go to the Analytics dashboard page to see daily
metrics
4. Useful Reports
Visitors:
Map overlay, Browsers, Operating systems, Screen
resolution, Connection speed
Traffic sources
Direct links/Referring links/Search engines, Most
frequent search words used
Content
Top content, Site overlay