Google Analytics: Some simiple reminders and images
To learn more about page usage, you can use the Analytics available in CommonSpot. Before you do
this, log into your Google account in another browser window or tab.
You can also use the Analytics available from the Google Analytics site (base URL
https:///www.google.com/analytics). The following images are taken from the Google Analytics site.
Find your pages
1. Log into Google Analytics.
2. Access Behavior > Site Content > All Pages as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Select Behavior > Site Content > All pages
3. Click the “advanced” link on the page that appears, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Advanced link
4. As shown in Figure 3, select the data from your site.
a. Choose Begins with from the selection list.
b. In the blank field, enter the site or subsite for which you want data.
Do not include http://www.uwstout.edu/. Begin with a / and end with a /.
For example, /dining/ would provide data for the entire Dining site, while
/dining/plan/ would limit data to the pages found under
http://www.uwstout.edu/dining/plans/.
c. Click the Apply button.
Figure 3. Selecting your site
Exporting data
You can export to PDF or to Excel as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Exporting data
Where are your viewers coming from?
You can use the Acquisition > All Traffic to see viewer source data (refer to Figure 5).
Figure 5. Acquisition link in left column
You can also use the Secondary dimension > Acquisition > Source link as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6. Source link under Secondary dimension
You can even access information about social network sources (refer to Figure 7).
Figure 7. Social Network link under Secondary dimension