It is possible to choose an interval for a certain Google Analytics report?
I would like to be able to send a monthly report (for the last 30 days) on weekly basis.
I don't believe this is currently possible through the Google Analytics website, but you could use the Google Analytics Spreadsheet Add-on to achieve a very similar result.
You can Share almost any report in GA
Use Email option and set frequency Weekly.
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Is it possible to get a breakdown reporting in Google Analytics for the number of sessions/users during day and time on a specific URL? I was looking at some custom reporting and going down the route of using a pivot table, but I'm not sure if that's overkill for something that can be done directly in GA outright.
You can use custom report with page and hour of day as dimensions and sessions as metric.
I'm trying to pull up my goals against campaigns data through Google Analytics CORE-API. However, when I do so, one of my campaigns simply disappears. It only shows in the interface report or when I download it through excel. Can sampling exclude a campaign from the report? Is the sampling effect higher when using API? Will upgrading to GA premium and using the Measurement-API eliminates this effect? Thank you!
Is it possible in the dashboard to report a value which is a custom calculation between fields?
I have an event called "banner_impression" and another one called "banner_click"
I would like to calculate which is the percentage of "banner_click" events over "banner_impression" events.
Any way to report such calculated value in a dashboard?
Nope. Sadly calculated metrics are not a feature in any version of Google Analytics. I hear Adobe Analytics has it, but that's an enterprise-level paid solution.
You'll have to export the data out of Google Analytics, open it in Excel, and then divide your clicks by your impressions to include it in any sort of dashboard. Excel plugins are available that can help with this, and they include Analytics Edge, Next Analytics, and the Napkyn Reporting Manger.
There are also dashboarding applications like Klipfolio and Mixpanel that can allow you to suck in data from various sources (incl. Google Analytics) and present your data in a much more appealing way.
Tools like Mixpanel, KISSmetrics and others support cohort analysis out of the box but I've heard that you can do this with a bit of effort in Google Analytics as well. How do you set this up if you want to track, say, the daily and weekly retention of your visitors?
Google Analytics can do a lot but retention analysis is one of it's weak points. Since it tends to focus on visits (as opposed to visitors) you'll need to configure the cookie tracking yourself using Google Analytic's custom variables. Having said that, it's not too hard to get a simple solution running quickly.
First, decide how to layout the data in Google Analytic's custom variables based on your requirements. For example, are you storing retention dates for daily, weekly or monthly tracking? Do you also want to track cohort goals? Partition this data into the available custom variable slots.
Write the cohort data to these custom variables when visitors arrive or achieve goals using Google Analytic's _setCustomVar function. Setting the fourth parameter of that function to 1 indicates you want to do visitor-level (cookie) tracking.
For each cohort you wish to analyze, create an advanced segment in Google Analytics. Using a regex expression in the condition will give you the flexibility to segment for interesting cohorts. ex: "All users whose first visit was the week before Christmas".
Analyze the results with reports by specifying a date range and the corresponding cohort-sliced advanced segments. Another option is to extract the data using the Google Analytics Data Feed Query Explorer or their API.
Once you've put in the work your new visitors will be stamped by their first visit date and nicely fall into each daily or weekly retention bucket. If you need more detail there's a full walk through on my blog:
How to do Cohort Analysis in Google Analytics.
This really interested me so I did a little research and basically you have to customize the GA javascript in the pages to upload custom variables into google.
Once you have done that you need to go to "Advance Segments in Google Analytics" and select your custom variables. Here is a detailed description on how to accomplish this:
Hacking a Cohort Analysis with Google Analytics
I am interested in seeing visits on my site broken down by hour - is there any way to generate a report of this in Google Analytics? It appears that all metrics are only broken down by day. Maybe I can get this information through the GA API?
Since Google Analytics was revised the currently accepted answer is no longer available. The current version of Google Analytics will let you view visitors per hour:
Go to the Reporting Tab
Select "Audience"
Select "Overview"
Select "Hourly"
If you're trying to determine total traffic by hour of the day for a given date range then you can use this custom report:
https://www.google.com/analytics/web/permalink?type=custom_report&uid=pToP7693ReSxfSIpbqHmWg
Only a few reports have hour-by-hour data; as far as I know, they're all in the 'Visitors' section.
For example, to see Visits by hour over a period of time, click Visits, Visitor Trending, then Visitors. Then, in the top right of the report, select Graph by: (icon of a clock)
All of the reports under Visitor Trending have hour-by-hour data, except Absolute Unique Visitors.
As far as the API goes, you can check what query combinations are valid here (since there are restrictions): http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataReferenceDimensionsMetrics.html
According to that, all metrics can be viewed by an hourly dimension except Campaign metrics and Visitor (not to be confused with Visit) metrics.
You can test the query you want to run with the Google Analytics Data Feed Query Explorer
If using a (downloadable, emailable) custom report is an option, you can use the custom report described on http://salman-w.blogspot.com/2012/07/analytics-day-of-week-hour-of-day-report.html
The article tells you to do the following:
Create a custom report with flat table (I am sure it will work with explorer style reports too)
Add the dimension hour (not hour of day)
Add the metric visits, pageviews, etc
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