{"id":781,"date":"2015-07-14T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T13:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=781"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T13:47:02","slug":"how-to-create-a-customised-google-analytics-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/07\/14\/how-to-create-a-customised-google-analytics-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Customised Google Analytics Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the conversations I have with our web editors about Google Analytics start like this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong> I\u2019ve got access to Google Analytics but I didn\u2019t know where to start. There\u2019s so much data, it\u2019s overwhelming!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> We know how daunting Google Analytics can be, so <strong>we\u2019ve created a standard dashboard you can copy and customise<\/strong> to get all the key metrics for your website.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true. With our standard dashboard <strong>you can get data on<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how people are getting to your site<\/li>\n<li>the <strong>keywords<\/strong> people are using to find your site<\/li>\n<li>what <strong>devices<\/strong> people are using to access your site<\/li>\n<li>the <strong>location of your audience<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>your most <strong>popular pages<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>the <strong>total<\/strong> <strong>number of visitors<\/strong> to your site<\/li>\n<li>whether your visitors are new or returning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of what your dashboard will look like. This one is set up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/about\">About section<\/a> of the University website.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_782\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/files\/2015\/07\/analytics-dashboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-782\" class=\"size-large wp-image-782\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/files\/2015\/07\/analytics-dashboard-1024x521.jpg\" alt=\"Customised Google Analytics dashboard for www.ncl.ac.uk\/about\" width=\"584\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/files\/2015\/07\/analytics-dashboard-1024x521.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/files\/2015\/07\/analytics-dashboard-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/files\/2015\/07\/analytics-dashboard-500x255.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/files\/2015\/07\/analytics-dashboard.jpg 1622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customised Google Analytics dashboard for www.ncl.ac.uk\/about<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve got the dashboard set up you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>view data for different time periods<\/li>\n<li>download the report as a PDF<\/li>\n<li>schedule reports to be emailed to you on a regular basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first step to getting the dashboard is to <a href=\"https:\/\/internal.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/services\/analytics\/\">request access to the University\u2019s Google Analytics<\/a> (University login required). Once you have access you can <strong>customise the standard dashboard<\/strong> for your website. We\u2019ve got <strong>step-by-step instructions<\/strong> on how to do this, plus a demo video on <a href=\"https:\/\/internal.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/services\/analytics\/dashboard.htm\">our website<\/a> (University login required).<\/p>\n<p>Our next post will cover how to make use of the data in your dashboard. If there are other analytics topics you&#8217;d like us to cover please leave us a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the conversations I have with our web editors about Google Analytics start like this: Editor: I\u2019ve got access to Google Analytics but I didn\u2019t know where to start. There\u2019s so much data, it\u2019s overwhelming! Me: We know how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2015\/07\/14\/how-to-create-a-customised-google-analytics-dashboard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,76],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","tag-google-analytics","tag-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}