Google Analytics 101 Flashcards
How would Google Analytics track a visitor who has visited your site previously, but has deleted all browser cookies before returning to your site?
The visitor would be tracked as a new Visitor. A visitor who has deleted cookies before returning to your site will still be tracked but as a new visitor, and without any record of a prior referring source or campaign.
Is Google Analytics capable of tracking mobile devices?
Yes, as long as the device is capable of executing JavaScript and storing cookies. Google Analytics can track visits from a mobile device as long as the device is capable of executing JavaScript and storing cookies. This capability is not limited to Android, all contemporary smartphone browsers/operating systems are JavaScript- and cookie-enabled. The Audience Mobile Devices report lists the mobile devices that visitors have used to access your site
Which of the following are ways in which you can set up a Google Analytics account?
A - Use Google webmaster Tools
B - Trough your Gmail signup process
C - Trough google.com/analytics or within your adwords account
Go to google.com/analytics and create an account.
There are two places you can sign up for a Google Analytics account: at google.com/analytics, or within your AdWords account. Google Webmasters Tools is used primarily for search engine optimization. Although you can link some Google Webmaster Tools data to Google Analytics, you cannot create a Google Analytics account from within Google Webmaster Tools You cannot create a Google Analytics account as part of the Gmail signup process
For how many Google Analytics accounts can you be given Manage Users and Edit rights?
A - Unlimited
B - 100 GA accounts
C - 1000 GA accounts
Unlimited.
An unlimiited number of other Google Analytics users with Manager Users privileges can provide you access to accounts, properies, and views at all privilege levels.
You cannot, however, actually create more than IOO Google Analytics accounts per Google username.
Which access privileges in Google Analytics are normally granted to administrators only?
Manage Users.
Manage Users is considered an administrator privilege.
Edit, which allows users to create properties and views, apply view filters, configure goals, and delete a Google analytics account/propertymenu, should also be reserved for individuals trusted as administrators.
If you manage Google Analytics for several organizations, how could you make sure they won’t be able to access each other’s reports?
Create a separate property for each organization within the same account, and restrict access at the property level. Even though you can manage access at the view level, each organization’s website would require at least a separate Google Analytics property, so separate views for each organization within the same property would not be feasible. In this scenario, you could create separate accounts, or separate properties within a single account, and manage access accordingly at either the account or property level.
How do you change your email login for your existing Google Analytics account?
Create a new Google account and add your new account as an administrator to your Google Analytics.
To change your email login, you can either create a new Google account and add your new login as an administrator to your Google Analytics account or just add the email as your alternate email address in your Google account. The email address that you use to log into Google Analytics is the email address that is associated with your general Google account. You cannot create an email login that applies to Google Analytics only.Even if you have associated multiple email addresses with your Google account, they would all apply to other Google services (such as Google Drive and Google Calendar) in addition to Google Analytics. If you have created your Google account with a non-gmail email address, you may also be able to directly edit the primary email address of your Google account.
Multiple views for a single domain use the same:
UA number.
In most instances, a single domain corresponds to a single (Web) property within a Google Analytics account. All views within a single Google Analytics property use a tracking code with the same UA number, such as UA-12345678-1, and therefore receive the same raw data. What differentiales views within a single property are the filters, settings, and access rights that you apply. The tracking code for a different domain, even within the same account, would normally use a different UA number, such as UA-12345678-2.
Why would you create multiple views for the same property?
To capture different subsets of data.
The same domain you create multiple views for the same property makes you able to apply different filters, settings, and access rights to the same traffic data.
For instance, you could apply a view include filter that limited the data in the views reports to a single website subdirectory, and you could then allow access for certain users to that view only.
It is best practice to maintain one completely unfiltered view for each domain so you can refer to your raw traffic data if you ever need to. To capture data separately for different domains, you would generally create views under a separate Google Analytics property.
Which of the following statements about adding new views is correct?
- A user with edit rights at the property level can add a view within a specific property
- A user with edit rights at the account level can add a view anywhere in the Google Analytics account
You can manage access rights at the account, property, and view level.
A user with edit rights at the property level can add a view within that property, and a user with edit rights at the account level can add a view to any property within that account. Users With Read & Analyze rights only, cannot create views
You have created a new view for an existing property in Google Analytics. Which of the following could explain why no data is appearing in the view?
- It has been less than 24 hours since you created the view
- You have not applied any include filters to the view
- You have not designated yourself as admin for the view
- You have not updated the tracking code
It can take up to 24 hours for new traffic data to appear in a Google Analytics view.
You must have administrator rights to create a view, and Administrators have access to all views in an account, so you do not have to give yourself administrator access to any view that you create in your account.
You do not need to apply any include filters for the view to begin collecting data, and you do not need to update the tracking code, since the single instance of the tracking code installed on a website supplies the same raw data to all views within the corresponding Google Analytics property.
Assuming no cross-domain tracking, which of the following are NOT standard practice?
- Tracking multiple websites within a single property
- Tracking multiple websites within a single view
In Google Analytics, a property corresponds with a single website and tracking code, and each view belongs to a single property, so it is not standard or recommended to track multiple websites within a single property or view.
Since you can create multiple properties within one account, you can track multiple websites within one account.
It is also routine to track a single website in multiple views, each with different settings or filters applied to the raw data for the website property In the specialized case of “rollup” reporting, you do use the same tracking code on multiple websites, thereby tracking them in the same property.
Which of the following are possible uses of an additional view for the same Google Analytics property (that is, the same website)?
- Capturing traffic data from a single referrer
- Tracking activity within a specific subdirectory
By using different view filters and settings, you can include, exclude, and modify the same raw data generated by the tracking code installed on a single website.
You can apply a wide range of filters and filter combinations to your views. You could also provide a user with edit access to one view (to set up goals and apply filters) but provide only Read & Analyze access to another view for the same property. Advanced segments are associated with users, rather than views
Which of the following statements about Google Analytics is false?
- You can track more than one website within a single account
- You can create multiple views that correspond to the same website
- A single view can display data for more than one website
- You can aggregate data from multiple accounts into a single view
In the case of cross-domain tracking, a single view can display data for more than one website.
Each view, however, belongs to a single Google Analytics property (Web or mobile), and each property belongs to a single account; each view therefore corresponds to a single account.
What could prevent you from creating a view in a Google Analytics account?
- You do not have edit rights
- The account was created by another user
- The account was created less than 24 hours ago
- The maximum number of views has aIready been created within the account
To create a new view within an account, you must have edit rights, and the account must contain fewer than 50 views, the maximum allowed per account.
According to the terms of service, which of the following types of data are you not allowed to store in Google Analytics?
- Cost data from sources other than AdWords
- Dimension data from sources other than Adwords
- Visitor email addresses
- Custom dimensions and metrics that you generate through code
The terms of service to which you agree when creating an account forbid the storage of personally identifying information (PII) such as visitor email addresses within Google Analytics
What does UA-34823-1 in Google Analytics represents?
- An account ID
- A property ID
- A property ID.
In Google Analytics, UA-349823 represents an account ID and UA-34823-1 represents a property ID.
Since a website or a mobile app usually corresponds with a single property and vice versa, and the tracking code on each website or app contains a property ID and not a more general account ID.
Property ID is sometimes referred to as trackng ID or UA number.
Which of the following correctly represents the Google Analytics hierarchy from top to bottom?
- Account > Property > View
- Property > Account > View
- Property > View > Account
- Account > View > Property
Account > Property > View
In Google Analytics, an account contains one or more properties, and a property contains one or more views
Where does Google Analytics store the timestamp of a visitor’s first visit?
The timestamp is stored in the utma or _ga cookie
The utma cookie (in Google Analytics Classic) or the _ ga cookie (in Google Analytics Universal) locally stores a unique (but not personally identifiable) visitor ID in the visitor’s browser; a timestamp for the Visitor’s initial, previous, and current visit; the number of sessions/visits that the visitor has initiated; and a domain identifier. A number of Google Analytics reports, such as New vs. Returning and Frequency & Recency, rely on the utma or _ga cookie.
How does Google Analytics calculate time spent on a page A, if a visitor has viewed Page A and Page B and then left the site?
Page A timestamp - page B timestamp
Each time you load a web page, your browser records a precise timestamp for that page. To calculate time on a page, Google Analytics subtracts the difference between the timestamps for two consecutive pages. For example, if a visitor visits page A at 10:01:25 A.M. and then page B at 10:02:38 A.M., the time on page for Page A will be of one minute and thirteen seconds. Based on each measurement for time on page, Google Analytics calculates Average Time on Page for specific pages and also collectively for the pages displayed in the pages report.
By default, which of the following may Google Analytics count as direct traffic?
- A visitor clicks a link in an email newsletter
- A visitor types the a URL directly into the browsers address bar.
- A visitor accesses a bookmark set in the browser.
Direct traffic appears with a medium value of “(none)” and a source value of “(direct)” in the Acquisition All Traffic report.
A visit originating from a link to your site from another website registers as Referral traffic As an important note, if 1) The visitor originated on a previous visit from a more specific medium, such as Referral, Organic, or a Campaign, and 2) The visitor is using the same browser and has not deleted the browser cookies since the previous visit(s), Google Analytics does not consider any new, direct visits to be direct, but instead repeats the medium and source of the prior visit. In other Words, a direct visit does not overwrite a more specific medium and source from a previous visit.
In the Navigation Summary view, what does the entrances percentage indicate?
How frequently this page was accessed as an landing page.
In the Behavior Site Content, All Ranges Navigation Summary view, the Entrances percentage shows how frequently that page was the first viewed in a visit often if served as a landing page vs. how often a preceding page was viewed.
What does an advanced segment enable you to do?
Isolate and analyze subsets of your data. With advanced segments, you can quickly isolate and analyze subsets of your traffic according to virtually any combination of dimension values and metric thresholds. You can apply up to four advanced segments to most reports, to compare them side by side
Which of the following is NOT among the default selections available as advanced segments?
Visits without Transactions.
Google Analytics offers a range of predefined advanced segments, that you can apply without any configuration. If a certain segment is not available by default, you can define it as a custom segment. The predefined All Visits segment is in essence applied to all reports by default