Create Your First $10K Online Sales Funnel
The Google Analytics Dashboard is a place where you can set up your own custom reports to show metrics about your website’s performance. These dashboards provide us with an overview of the most vital information we need to accomplish our website goals - making conversions. Google allows us to create custom dashboards filled with widgets such as timelines, metrics, tables, and charts to show us all sorts of data.
Timelines show specific data over the course of a specific time period.
Metrics show specific data as a single number. For example, the total number of user sessions for the past 30 days is 1,555.
Tables use rows and columns to visualize data. For example, a table might include a list of all referral urls and how many sessions came from each referral url.
Charts are used to visualize part of the data in relation to the whole. These could be used to compare conversions from different traffic sources such as referrals, social media, organic search, etc.
To locate any existing dashboards, log in to your Google Analytics account, then click on Customization > Dashboards. The next section will show you every dashboard that you have, along with the date they were created.
Clicking on a dashboard will show you all of the widgets that were added and the latest data from Google Analytics. This section will be empty if you do not have any dashboards yet.
Begin by clicking Customization > Dashboards and then clicking on the “Create” button. A popup will be displayed showing two choices: blank canvas and starter dashboard. You can also import a dashboard from the gallery, which are premade dashboards from Google and other third parties.
This is where you can give your dashboard a unique name, which is a good idea if you plan to have more than one dashboard showing different types of data. You can have upto 20 different dashboards and each dashboard can display a max of 12 widgets.
You can use the starter dashboard to set one up quickly. Once you have selected a template and named your dashboard, click the “Create Dashboard” button.
The new custom dashboard will now be available for you to see.
The beginner dashboard comes with widgets for new users, sessions, sessions by browser, bounce rate, goal completions, and more. You can customize your dashboards to let them show you specific details you need from Google Analytics.
Another option is to do a search for google analytics custom dashboards you will find hundreds of premade dashboards you can import and use. No point in recreating the wheel if one of the premade dashboards will provide you with the data you need.
The Google Analytics Dashboard is an important part of analyzing the statistics of your website and now that you know how to create a starter dashboard, you can customize how the data is displayed in a way that works best for you. Just remember analytical data is only good if you review it regularly and put the data to use.