I got some problems with the automatic generated reports option in Google analytics.
So, i made some reports in my dashboard, personalized them and they are ready to be send to the customer.
I set the dates : 1 Januari - 31 Januari 2014 and compare them with 1 Januari - 31 Januari 2013.
I use the E-mail option in google analytics and use the option automaticly send this report every first of the month too the customer.
But when the customer recieves the reports it doesn't display the dates i setted, but it displays the dates i sended the reports. So i double checked, tested, sended them again and kept facing the same problems.
But when i don't use the automaticly generated option and send them directly to the customerm, the dates are right.
How can i fix this problem ?
As far as I know, you can't send automated reports with a time range set beyond what Google Analytics has built in - Once, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly.
These settings send the report for the previous specified time period.
If you want to send a monthly report with the previous year of data, you are out of luck. Monthly reports only show the previous month and so on for the frequency settings. In short, no rolling data of a user specified time period.
And, no comparison data either like what you are trying to send.
I have to send the previous 90 days of data from a report every month. Since I am unable to do that in Google Analytics with the scheduled reports, I schedule GA to email me the report once a month as a reminder. I then go in and manually create the 90 day report and use GA to email it using the Once frequency.
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I've created a custom dashboard with automatic monthly emails, but I can't get the dashboard to show analytics of the last 30 days by default. I have to set the period manually each time I open it. The default value on Google Analytics seems to be 7 days.
I would like the period to be set to the last 30 days by default so when I open the dashbord or when an email is sent, it shows the right period of time.
How can I achieve this?
Before Tuesday, March 14th, we saw the data lag in Google Analytics at approximately 1-2 hours. (It was never immediate.) You can see this effect on the Conversions > Ecommerce > Overview page if you search by date and select "today" to "today" (1 day's worth of data)
As of Tuesday, March 14th, we started seeing the lag for this overview report anywhere from 8-12 hours, with an inconsistent aggregation time. For example, it is now 4 PM here on the east coast (EDT), and here is a screenshot of our GA overview tab (I have obscured the revenue number for our privacy). As you can see, there are no numbers after 6:00 AM.
We saw this same effect yesterday (about 8-10 hour lag), and the following day the overview report seemed to fix itself (catch up with all of the aggregated data).
Now, what's more interesting, is that if we either A) Add a "Secondary Dimension" or B) use a "Custom Report", we can see all our data near real-time. For example, if I switch into the Ecommerce > Sales Performance report, then add a Secondary Dimension of "Hour of Day", I can see all my data through 2 PM today (about a 2 hour lag as it is now 4:22 pm as I am writing this)
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Note that to replicate this I sorted the "Hour by day" column by descending order (showing most recent first.)
Our questions are:
(1) Does anyone know why searching by Secondary Dimension or Custom Report shows us the data in more real-time than just looking at the overview report?
(2) Can anyone else confirm that what used to be a 2-3 hour delay now appears as if it is a 8-12 hour delay, starting on or around March 14th (possibly a few days earlier, this is the first day we can remember seeing this effect)
We are using Universal Analytics (with Enhanced E-commerce) implemented via the newer analytics.js. We are NOT using the older ga.js (we moved away from that about a year ago.)
We are not a GA 360 customer, just a regular free account.
From Google Analytics Help Center article.
Processing latency is 24-48 hours. Standard accounts that send more than 200,000 sessions per day to Analytics will result in the reports being refreshed only once a day. This can delay updates to reports and metrics for up to two days. To restore intra-day processing, reduce the number of sessions your account sends to < 200,000 per day. For Analytics 360 accounts, this limit is extended to 2 billion hits per month.
What it means is that for Standard accounts up to 48h delay is normal, if you have more data it can take more if you have less data it can be faster.
Regarding your observation that certain reports load faster than others this is linked to the design of Google Analytics Backends. Google will generate pre-aggregated tables with common reports to speed up consult and that sometimes can takes longer to process. Other non-common reports can't be answered by aggregated reports so it can be responded by a different backend that already has fresher data. So it is considered normal to see different levels of freshness in different reports.
Google Analytics 360 has fresher data of course.
This other table from the HC article highlights some of the differences and has more info.
Background:
I have a Google Analytics account using which I am tracking user activity for web and mobile app. After logging into your account and choosing the web property and the corresponding view, you generally see a dashboard with quick stats like Pageviews, Users, Sessions, Pages/Sessions, Avg. Session Duration, Bounce Rate and percentage of new sessions. You can change the time period (from the top right area of the Dashboard) to get the same stats for that period.
Problem:
Last week, I was interested in the three main stats: Page views, Users and Sessions for a particular day - say, day A. The dashboard showed the following stats:
Pageviews - 1,660,137
Users - 496,068
Sessions - 983,549
This report was based on 100% of sessions.
I go back to the dashboard TODAY and check the same stats for the same day A. Here's what I saw:
Pageviews - 1,660,137
Users - 511,071
Sessions - 1,005,517
This report is also based on 100% of sessions.
Nothing was changed in the tracking code for the web and mobile app. Could someone explain why I have this difference in the stats? Is this normal?
They need some time to update the system, otherwise their system would overwhelm
When you first create a profile it can take up to 48 -72 hours for it to start showing data.
After that time data will appear instantly in the Real-time reports.
Standard reports take longer to finish processing. You need to remember the amount of data that is being processed. Some of the data may appear in the standard reports after a few hours. The numbers have not completed processing for at least 24 hours, so anything you look at then will not be accurate.
When checking Google Analytics never look at todays or yesterdays numbers in the standards reports, if you want accurate information. Things get even more confusing when you consider time zones. When exactly is it yesterday? I have noticed numbers changing as far back as 48 hours. But Google Says in there documentation 24 hours. I am looking for the link in the documentation will post it when I find it.
Found it: Data Limits
Data processing latency
Processing latency is 24-48 hours. Standard accounts that send more
than 200,000 sessions per day to Google Analytics will result in the
reports being refreshed only once a day. This can delay updates to
reports and metrics for up to two days. To restore intra-day
processing, reduce the number of sessions you send to < 200,000 per
day. For Premium accounts, this limit is extended to 2 billion hits
per month.
So try doing the same thing again today but check your last day being Monday. When you check again next week the numbers should be correct.
Is there a way to send a daily report with the current date's traffic only (not the whole month)? For example, if the report is sent 2015/01/25, I'd like to see traffic from 2015/01/25. I know I can manually select the data range but I'm looking for something that will automatically send daily PDF email report for current day only.
In the Email dialog of the Custom Reporting section, you can select a frequency of Daily and that will send your report every day for the previous day's data. Usually this is what you want since data for today will not always be current or accurate.
If you really need today's data, you can use the Core Reporting API and set the value for the start-date and end-date parameters to 'today'.
If you want to automate this process without too much effort, I'd recommend checking out the Google Analytics Spreadsheet Add-on, which uses the Core Reporting API behind the scenes. It won't email you reports, but you can do everything else you're asking.
I have created a custom report in GA with metric group as Users and dimension as date.I sent this report in PDF format to my email id using "once" as frequency of the mail in "email report" window.
As expected ,in this report I get a chart where X axis represents dates and Y represents no of users on that date.
When I schedule this mail and use daily as frequency ,I get the email correctly ,but the dimension of the chart is shown as year and I no longer see dates across X axis.
So on X axis its as 2009 ,2010 and so on.Y axis is shown correct.
I am not sure why does this happen in case of scheduled reports only.I am using universal Analytics here.
Any inputs would be highly appreciated!thanks.
This is because on the daily report, only the data for the day that the email report is sent to you is included. If you look at the daily report, in the upper right corner, is the date range just one day? Unfortunately, there really isn't a "fix" for this issue, but there is a workaround which was mentioned in this Google forum, which you can try out: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/4iNe_6oeZ2c
Hope this helps.
Yes, it doesn't work as expected.
When I set up my reports, I had the same issue.
The "fix" as described in the in the google forum below doesn't exactly solve the issue either.
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It's a basic dashboard that pulls down your GA data and then uses Google Charts API to make 30 day rolling charts and then sends you the email every morning.