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Reports that show how visitors arrived on your site

Acquisition

Google’s machine learning feature that identifies trends and changes in your data

Analytics Intelligence

Determines how credit for sales and conversions are assigned to touchpoints on the conversion path

Attribution

Reports that provide insights into the characteristics of your users (age, gender, interests, devices etc)

Audience

The average amount of time users are spending on your website

Average Session Duration.

The average amount of time users spend viewing a specific page or screen, or set of pages or screens A higher average time of page indicates to contents on the page are very interesting to visitors

Average Time on Page

Reports that provide insight into the behaviour of users on your site, e. g., entrance pages and exit pages

Behaviour

Allows you to compare your data to companies in the same industry

Benchmarking

When a user’s session only contains a single pageview, e.g., they land on a website and then immediately "bounce" away

Bounce

The percentage of single-page visits. If the success of your site depends on users viewing more than one page, then a high bounce rate is bad.

Bounce Rate

Parameters added to destination URLs to help you determine which marketing campaigns are driving the most traffic

Campaign Tags

Top-level groupings of your traffic sources, e.g., Organic Search’, ‘Paid Search’, ‘Social’ and ‘Email’

Channel

A completed activity that is important to the success of your business, e.g. a completed sign-up for your email newsletter or a purchase .

Conversion

The percentage of sessions that results in a conversion.

Conversion Rate

Cost-per-click can be seen in the Acquisition reports and typically refers to people clicking through to your website from paid ads.

CPC

Used to import company specific data (like client ID's from WordPress /Salesforce) and combine it with Google Analytics data.

Custom Dimensions

Used to import company specific metrics and combine it with Google Analytics data.

Custom Metrics

A report that you create. You pick the dimensions and metrics and decide how they should be displayed.

Custom Report

Reports that provide information about the age and gender of your users, along with the interests they express through their online travel and purchasing activities.

Demographics

Attributes of your data e.g. the dimension City indicates the city, for example, "Paris" or "New York", from which a session originates.

Dimensions

Visits from people who typed your website’s URL into their browser or clicked a link in an email application (that didn’t include campaign tags).

Direct

Used to track a specific type of visitor interactions with your web pages like ad clicks, video views, and downloads.

Events

Let you include, exclude, or modify the data you collect in a view.

Filters

Assigns credit for sales and conversions to the first channel on the conversion path.

First-click Interaction

A visualization tool that maps the steps/pages a customer takes when visiting your website.

Funnel Visualisation

Measure how well your site or app fulfills your target objectives, e.g. subscribing to your email newsletter, submitting an inquiry or making a purchase.

Goals

Google's advertising platform that helps advertisers reach new customers online.

Google Ads

Google's reporting and dashboarding tool allows you to present and visualize data from Google Analytics, Google Sheets and other data sources.

Google Data Studio

Google's tag management tool which allows one to easily alter code on a website created to track marketing analytics, e.g. Google Analytics tracking code, Facebook Pixel.

Google Tag Manager

The search terms people use to discover your website.

Keywords

The first page viewed during a session, or in other words, the entrance page.

Landing Page

Assigns credit for sales and conversions to the last channel in the conversion path.

Last-click Interaction

The general category of the traffic source, e.g. ‘organic’ for free search traffic, ‘cpc’ for cost-per-click and ‘referral’ for inbound links from other websites.

Medium

Typically a number or a percentage presented as columns of data within your reports.

Metric

People that visit your website for the first time in the selected date range.

New User

Since 2010, Google no longer provide the keyword data done on the secure version of Google (e.g. https://www.google.com) to protect the privacy of the searcher.

Not Provided

A placeholder name that Analytics uses when it hasn't received any information for the dimension you have selected, e.g. Google Analytics was unable to determine someone’s exact geographic location.

Not Set

Visitors who come to your website after searching Google.com and other search engines without clicking on a paid search ad.

Organic

Per Session. Indicates how many pages visitors view when browsing through a website.

Pages Per Session

Reported when a page has been viewed by a user on your website.

Pageview

Visitors who come to your website from a Google Ad or other paid search ad.

Paid Search

Represents your website or app, and is the collection point in Analytics for your data. You can add up to 50 properties to each Analytics account.

Property

When a user clicks through to your website from another third-party website.

Referral

Tools and reports to help you measure your site's Search traffic and performance, fix issues, and make your site shine in Google Search results.

Search Console

Analysis tool which allows you to isolate and compare various groups of users on your website.

Segments

A single visit to your website, consisting of one or more pageviews, along with events, ecommerce transactions and other interactions. By default, a session ends after 30 minutes of inactivity or when a user closes a browser window.

Session

Lets you understand the extent to which users took advantage of your site’s search function and which search terms they entered.

Site Search

Communicates where the user came from. For example, if the medium was “organic,” the source might be “google.com”.

Source

Google's tool to add extra bits of information (known as campaign tags, UTM tags or parameters) to the URL of your online marketing or advertising campaigns.

URL Builder

View. A defined view of data from a property. You can add up to 25 views to a property.

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