I'm terrible at understanding Google Analytics

[Guard Dog]

Just seems to me I can never find anything I want in Google Analytics Is there any way to see the daily visitors and how they got to the website? Seems like it is all 10,000 foot view analytics and nothing deeper.

It's frustrating me today!

 

[sasa]

Hi,

Try with: Traffic Sources >> Overview >> Sources >> All Traffic

Now you can click on "Secondary dimension" and choose "Keyword" for example

You can also choose date range in upper right corner.

Cheers

 

[slotplayer]

Just seems to me I can never find anything I want in Google Analytics Is there any way to see the daily visitors and how they got to the website? Seems like it is all 10,000 foot view analytics and nothing deeper.

It's frustrating me today!

takes a bit,

Log in > choose your web site account
this should takes you to Reporting at the top, if not click it at top.

Set the date range on the top right.

on the left expand > Traffic Sources > Sources > All Traffic

sasa beat me to it, so thats it.

GA is very powerful these days.

 

[jopaa]

GA is very powerful these days.

To bad that returns more and more (not provided) and you can see the keywords.

 

[Perc]

Yeah that (not provided) is getting quite annoying, that's 64% of my search traffic now. I assume it's from people using the auto-complete suggestions without actually hitting enter or clicking the search button, but they should find a way to pass that through to their own analytics tool.

You can also go deeper in the traffic sources > Sources > Search > Organic to see all the keywords that aren't (not provided).

 

[nacco532]

Yeah that (not provided) is getting quite annoying, that's 64% of my search traffic now. I assume it's from people using the auto-complete suggestions without actually hitting enter or clicking the search button, but they should find a way to pass that through to their own analytics tool.

You can also go deeper in the traffic sources > Sources > Search > Organic to see all the keywords that aren't (not provided).

It's a result of Google encrypting search results for logged in users (a change they made about a year ago). So if someone is logged into their Gmail account and uses the search function, Google will encrypt the keyword data sent to any site the user clicks on, making the data unreadable (regardless of whether or not you use Google Analytics). If you use another service like Statcounter, you will notice a lot of search results that tag the source as 'Encrypted Search'. This is why you're seeing such an increase.

 

[slotplayer]

here you go, have fun with this GA filter workaround -its easy to set up.

xxhttp://www.barker.dj/blog/not-provided

I did notice the 'not provided' is on the increase.

 

[tryme1]

Not a massive fan of Google Analytics. I have to use it for some SEO clients, but for my own stuff where I need analytics - http://www.piwik.org is your friend.

 

[Guard Dog]

Funny enough... I have used that for years and did install it yesterday. I just like the visitors log more than anything - but it's a very nice tool.

 

[Online18Casino]

Always learning about new tools here lol piwik.org looks useful. I'm not a huge fan of GA either, as I occasionally browse through all the data every few months to see whats new, its a bit of a hassle to put all the data together.

 

[nacco532]

This week Google is extending it's encryption of search results to ALL organic searches, not just for logged in users. This means the [not provided] in your analytics will be growing closer to 100%. I was going to include a link to their blog post about it but don't have 15 posts yet. Just a heads up.

 

[Guard Dog]

well that just sucks Maybe we should all switch to Bing

btw, can you put in xxxx:// and the url?

 

[nacco532]

well that just sucks Maybe we should all switch to Bing

btw, can you put in xxxx:// and the url?

xxxx://www.mattfieldingseo.co.uk/how-100-not-provided-is-already-affecting-seos/

 

[muffincrumbs]

The jetpack plugin for wordpress still works somewhat for tracking it seems.

 

[mikebuchanan12]

I would suggest to use SemRush to track kws ranking, and then you get all the other date from Google Analytics, google do try to send everyone in adwords but that wont happen