Beginners Guide to Google Analytics - Real Time Reports (Part 1)

Google Analytics helps you to identify and access data of how users interact with your site. It gives you an insight of how many people visited your page, content engagement, users demography and keyword performance.

Tutorial on how to Link Google Analytics to your website

https://youtu.be/FTGT8zNaOL4

Tutorial on how to link your blog to Google Analytics

https://youtu.be/DUl67IoXjcI

For Reports its divided into five sections

• Realtime
• Audience
• Acquisition
• Behaviour
• Conversion

Real-Time: This section offers real time data about your data like how many users are currently on you site and which page section are they engaging with. Let’s look at the different real-time reports.

• Locations: In this report, you can see where your current users are located, what page they are on, and how long they have been there.
• Traffic Sources: Traffic Sources tells you how users found your site. This section can be extremely useful in real-time if you want to see how much traffic a new social post is generating or how a page is performing.
• Content: In this section you can see from where users are landing on your site and how long they are staying there. You can see the page title, URL, and the percent of active users on a specific page.
• Events: In real-time, events allow you to track customizable interactions users have with your site. It includes ad clicks, downloads etc.
• Conversions: This report gives you data about how many users completed the goal of the website in real time or in the past 30 mins.

The remaining sections will be covered in the next post. Checkout the remaining posts for the complete guidelines.