Archives: Google Analytics

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Access Your Stats in Google Analytics 4

Analytics has undergone a big change. This means that all Carleton sites will now be using the new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to track website performance. GA4 will provide a more integrated picture of our visitors and their journey across various Carleton websites and properties! You can see where your visitors are coming from,... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Google Analytics is Changing

We use Google Analytics to track how our Carleton websites are performing. If you have logged in to analytics recently, you may have noticed a pop-up warning. It talks about the switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) occurring on July 1. What is GA4? GA4 is the newest version of Google Analytics. It is... More

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Discover your most visited pages and what this can tell you!

Do you know what pages are the most popular on your website? Google Analytics can tell you! Use the Top Page report to get a quick glimpse into what users are viewing on your website. It lets you know which pages are the most popular by how many page views they received over a... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Let Me In! Getting Access to Google Analytics

When we set up your site, we enabled Google Analytics to track site activity, meaning that there exists data on your website’s performance from when it was just a baby website. You’re welcome. But knowing that the data exists is only half the battle. Luckily, we’ve made the other half – accessing the data... More

Thursday, October 14, 2021

How to Schedule a Recurring Google Analytics Report

Google Analytics is a super useful tool, but it can be overwhelming. By taking the time to set up some basic recurring reports, you'll be able to easily get useful info on your web traffic and have it emailed right to you. A recurring report lets you: Choose exactly what you want to see... More

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Get added to Google Analytics with your Carleton email address

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google to report and track website traffic. Google's verification processes and security measures inhibit access from multiple locations using the same generic email account. The security measures notice multiple IP addresses and can lock out some members from accessing the analytics services.... More

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Logging into Google Analytics – the Pandemic Edition

In case you haven't noticed, we haven't been on campus for a while now. We know there are many benefits to this: the morning commute is much shorter and warmer than it would usually be at this time of year, we now don't have to share office space with anyone except the cat, and workplace... More

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

How to Check Traffic Sources on Specific Pages

In Google Analytics you can see how people are getting to your website by checking the Traffic Sources reports.  These reports will tell you the medium (generally one of three - organic/search, direct, or referral) and the source (Google, Twitter, carleton.ca, etc). Now let's say you've published a post, have optimized it for search... More

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics: Using Your Timeline

Google Analytics is a valuable tool that can really really really (really!) help you improve your website. Your analytics reports can answer questions like, how many people are reading your content? How much time are they spending on a page (meaning, are they reading your content)? What vehicles are working for you?  Where are... More

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

5 Questions Google Analytics Can Answer

How do you know if a page or post is performing well on your website? You check your analytics reports, of course. But what does 'performing well' mean? There are hundreds of reports available to you in Google Analytics, and it's important to know which ones to look at to determine whether or not... More

Monday, June 6, 2016

What to Put in Your Quicklinks

“Quicklinks” is a list of links placed on your website’s homepage. In the current CMS template, quicklinks are paired with images and offer one-click access to content. Quicklinks are quite ambiguous in the sense that the links can be anything you put your mind to (as long as they benefit your site’s users of... More

Monday, June 30, 2014

Five Google Analytics Reports You Should Check Out

Google Analytics can give you lots and lots if information about your website. This is very useful but can be overwhelming! In this post, I will point out some of the questions I find useful to ask and show you where to find the answers. This will help you understand some basic information about... More

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