Analytics

  • The New GA: Retention

    The New GA: Retention

    We’re examining all the reports in the new GA4 interface, and we’ve come to the Retention report. This report shows how well you keep visitors coming back to your website. We begin with the proportion of new and returning users. We can see that this website has far more new users than returning users. This…

  • The New GA: Monetization

    The New GA: Monetization

    The new Google Analytics Monetization report is a completely new report; Universal Analytics didn’t show all this information unless you customized your dashboard to show it. Even then, it didn’t show it in one place. The new Monetization report lets you see at a glance where your revenue is coming from, whether you’re tracking ecommerce…

  • The New GA: Engagement

    The New GA: Engagement

    Google Analytics has a new look! Known as GA4, the new reporting is quite a bit different from what we’re used to. In the new Google Analytics interface, Engagement has its own set of reports. You can see the various engagement metrics in Universal Analytics under the Audience Overview report. Number of sessions per user…

  • The New GA: Acquisition

    The New GA: Acquisition

    The new Google Analytics interface, G4, has a whole new set of Acquisition reports. Acquisition is all about where your website’s traffic comes from. This report shows how many of your visitors find you through Organic Search, how many are referred by links from other websites, what proportion find you through social media, how many…

  • The New GA: The Realtime Report

    The New GA: The Realtime Report

    The new Google Analytics experience starts, as the classic one does, with the Realtime report. This report shows the visitors who are currently on your website. As you can see from the screenshot below, showing our lab site, this report shows who is on your site right now, and the visitors who have been there…

  • The New Google Analytics Experience

    The New Google Analytics Experience

    Google Analytics has a completely new look! If you haven’t checked out the new Google Analytics experience, you might need a guide to help you along the way. What’s different? Here’s one Google Analytics report that may be familiar: the Acquisitions Overview report, showing how visitors found their way to our website.   We’re looking…