Google Analytics Terms Flashcards
Acquisition
Reports that show how visitors arrived on your site.
Analytics Intelligence
Google’s machine learning feature that identifies trends and changes in your data.
Attribution
Determines how credit for sales and conversions are assigned to touchpoints on the conversion path.
Audience
Reports that provide insights into the characteristics of your users (age, gender, interests, devices etc.)
Average Session Duration
The average amount of time users are spending on your website.
Average Time on Page
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.
Behavior
Reports that provide insight into the behavior 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
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.
Campaign Tags
Parameters added to destination URLs to help you 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 that is important to the success of your business, e.g. a completed sign-up for your email newsletter or a purchase.
Conversion Rate
The percentage of sessions that results in a conversion.
CPC
Cost-per-click can be seen in the Acquisition reports and typically refers to people clicking 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 it 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 and gender of your users, along with the interests they express 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.