- In this video I'm gonna give you a quick introduction
into Google Analytics,
and why you should be using it on your website.
A little more, coming up.
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Now today I wanna give you a quick introduction
into Google Analytics.
Now I condense it down to really show you the Core Reports
and why you should be using this tool on your website,
to get more insights about the traffic,
and what is generally happening on your website,
so you can optimize accordingly.
So, let's dive in.
Alright, so here we are inside of Google Analytics.
Now this might be a little bit of confusing to you
with all these numbers, but bear with me,
we're gonna break it down in the most important reports
that you want to look at.
First up, before you get started,
make sure your Google Analytics is set up correctly.
You need to have the tracking code installed,
that you get at the beginning,
when you installed Google Analytics.
So, if you go back here in the admin section,
you can look at our tracking code
that we need to install on our page,
and then also install goals.
If you wanna find out more about how to install goals,
you have some tutorials on this channel as well.
Once you have that set up, you are all good to go.
If your account has been running for a while,
you will see data here in this home screen.
Now this is the Google Analytics demo account,
so if you wanna get access to that,
I'm gonna link this up in the description below.
So inside of Google Analytics, what can we do here actually?
You see a lot of numbers,
but all you need to care about,
is your questions that you have for this tool.
Google Analytics measures your data, reports on it,
and then helps you to analyze it.
So all you need to have is a good question.
Google Analytics itself, gives you already,
some good questions on the home screen.
So where do your users visit?
How do you acquire users?
And so on.
So you can just look at these different reports here,
and already get a lot of insights on the behavior
of your users that visit your website.
On the left side here, we have different report tabs
that actually go deeper into these reports,
and we can get a lot of insight
if we know what we are asking for.
So, what do you I usually look for
when I go through these reports?
Let me give you some examples.
For example, here in the Real-time reporting,
we can get an overview,
what is happening on our side right now.
The users that are on our side, how many there are,
and the active pages that they are looking at,
really help for when it comes to starting
a new marketing campaign,
and you want to know if this is effective,
if users are flowing in, where they're coming from,
what they're doing right now,
and if the tracking that you have set up
is working correctly.
Next up, let's take a look at an Audience report.
Now an Audience report, as the name already implies,
is all about the users who visit your website.
We can have a look where they're coming from.
So, let's go over here to the Geo report,
and if I wanted to decide where I should focus
my marketing efforts, for example.
In this chart I will see
that most of the users come from the United States,
and therefore my money would probably be well spent,
as I've already have an audience in the United States.
But you can have a look at all the different countries
that your users come from.
The host of other reports here,
about the technology that users are using,
the browser for example, and demographic state as well,
but this is really something that I use on a ad-hoc basis
when it comes to, as I'm trying to figure out
who I should target in my advertising, for example.
Then we get to the Acquisition report,
and the Acquisition reports are all about
where does your users actually come from,
and the report that I normally look at
is the Source/Medium report.
Why do I look at the Source/Medium report?
It's one of my favorite reports
because I know how the Source/Mediums are put together.
If you wanna find out more about this
then check out our video on UTM parameters.
That lets you control how you send the data
into these reports.
Here it can get the most important data
about how my marketing campaigns are performing.
So on this account
there is a lot of YouTube referral traffic.
We can see how many people come in a given period.
Now if you wanna change the period,
up here we have the date picker,
that we could change around and,
let's look at the last month here.
We also see the Bounce Rates.
So how do users behave on our website
once they come to the website,
and a Bounce Rate simply states how many people,
just look at one page, and then leave already.
So, that way we can determine the effectiveness
of our marketing campaign,
how deep people go into our website after they enter,
and how long they stay.
And that gives us a good comparison
to the different traffic sources,
and which might be more effective
in terms of engaging users on our website.
Then if you have Goals set up,
you'd be able to see how many people actually convert.
And this is super powerful
because we get a conversion rate per channel,
and if you can compare that against other channels,
we can see for example, this deals site at Googleplex,
is providing us really high quality traffic
that converts really well and makes us lot of money.
This is all built in with Ecommerce Tracking,
if you have goals you will be able
to also choose them right here.
So, the Source/Medium report is really a great example
of a Google Analytics report that I look up very often.
Moving on, once the users are quiet
and have found their way onto our platform,
we wanna know what they do.
And this is where the Behavior reports come in.
The Behavior reports will tell you all about
the pages that are visited on your website.
So here we have a great overview
on the different pages that are visited most frequently,
how many people have viewed this page,
how long they stayed on a page,
and what they have done afterwards.
If they have exited a page, or clicked on to another page.
We can also see the value of that page,
if we have Ecommerce Tracking installed.
So how many people have actually visited this page
prior to their purchase.
That lets me identify pages that actually help me
to convert people better.
So this page right here, is super valuable for us,
and maybe I should spend more time optimizing that.
Although just three people have viewed this page,
so might now be that relevant after all.
Better take a page like, the your info page,
that has a lot of traffic, makes us money,
and therefore should be worth another look
at making sure this page is optimized correctly.
Now one other question is how do people
actually flow through our website from page to page.
We have this Behavior Flow report here
that lets us see just that.
So right here you can choose your pages and events,
and this gives us a nice overview
where users start their journey,
and leave through the website,
to get to their page where they exit a website.
So, also great report to see how people
flow through our website.
And then last, but not least, we have Conversion reports,
and Conversions reports are all about these goals
that you have implemented in your Google Analytics account.
It will let you know
that the user actually complete the action,
or visited the page that I wanted him to visit.
So that might be a auto-confirmation page, like here,
or a form completion page,
or maybe a block post, that he or she, should of read.
Once you have implemented goals,
you will be able to see if that user reached that goal,
within your website.
If you have an Ecommerce side running,
and you have Ecommerce Tracking installed,
you'll have many more reports available
that let you analyze how people flow through your page,
and if they bought products from you,
and which products in particular,
which how much money these products have made, and so on.
So Ecommerce Tracking is really something
you should install if you have a Ecommerce website running.
With that short overview,
I leave you with the homepage screen
and I encourage you to click around in these reports
and find out more about how your users behave
on your website.
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So there you have it these are the Core Reports
of Google Analytics and why you should be using it
on your website.
It's really an awesome tool,
and if you get more into it,
you an get more out of it as well.
So if you're ready to dive into Google Analytics
we have a beginners playlist right here on this channel,
that gives you much more information
on how to install Google Analytics correctly,
how to analyze the data that you get from it,
and then optimize your website accordingly.
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