Google Analytics Terms Flashcards
(48 cards)
Acquisition
Reports that show how visitors arrived on your site
Analytics Intelligence
machine-learning feature that identifies trends and changes in data
Attribution
Determines how credit for sales & conversions are assigned to touchpoints on the conversion path
Audience
Reports that provide insights into the characteristics of your users
e.g.) age, gender, interests, devices etc
Average Session Duration
average amount of time users are spending on your website
Average Time on Page
average amount of time users spend viewing a specific page, set of pages or screens
A higher average time of page indicates to contents on the page are very interesting to visitors.
Behaviour
Reports that provide insight into the behaviour of users on your site
e.g. entrance pages and exit pages.
Benchmarking
Allows you to compare your data to companies in the same industry
Bounce
When a user’s session only contains a single pageview
e.g. they land on a website and then immediately “bounce” away.
Bounce Rate
percentage of single-page visits
Campaign Tags
Parameters added to destination URLs to help determine which marketing campaigns are driving the most traffic
Channel
Top-level groupings of your traffic sources
e.g. Organic Search’, ‘Paid Search’, ‘Social’ and ‘Email’.
Conversion
A completed activity
e.g. a completed sign-up for your email newsletter or a purchase.
Conversion Rate
percentage of sessions that results in a conversion
CPC
(Cost-per-click)
refers to the people who click through to your website from paid ads
Custom Dimensions
Used to import company-specific data (like client ID’s from WordPress /Salesforce) and combine it with Google Analytics data.
Custom Metrics
Used to import company-specific metrics and combine them with Google Analytics data
Custom Report
A report that you create. You pick the dimensions and metrics and decide how they should be displayed.
Demographics
Reports that provide information about the age, gender, interests of users through their online travel and purchasing activities
Dimensions
Attributes of your data
e.g. the dimension City indicates the city, for example, “Paris” or “New York”, from which a session originates.
Direct
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).
Events
Used to track a specific type of visitor interactions with your web pages like ad clicks, video views, and downloads.
Filters
Lets you include, exclude, or modify the data you collect in a view
First-click Interaction
Assigns credit for sales & conversions to the first channel on the conversion path