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Google Analytics Overview Widget



The Google Analytics Overview widget presents a trend graph based on the selected key metric from the website's Google Analytics account. 

This widget features a variety of color options and can be added to white label Marketing DashboardsClient Dashboards and PDF Reports. In marketing dashboards you can set it to display at half or full page width. You can view a marketing dashboard sample that contains this and additional widgets (password is demo).

Important! To view this report, Google Analytics must be configured correctly (please refer to our Google Analytics documentation).

Google Analytics Overview Widget

Site Traffic(Analytics) > Widgets > Overview

 


Traffic Overview Widget

            
 
Single Time Period
Users, Sessions, Bounce Rate, Average Time on Site for one time period
             
Google Analytics Overview Widget


Traffic Overview Compared to Previous Period

 
Compare Visitor Trends
By selecting the Compare to Previous Period option in the Date settings, the Overview Widget displays a solid line for the report period and a dotted line for the previous period. If view of the Totals section is enabled, the metrics also include the previous period totals and percentage of change between the report periods.

Google Analytics Overview Widget


Traffic Overview Compared to Previous Year

            
 
Compare Traffic of Current Period to Same Period Last Year
In the Date settings, selecting Same Time Last Year produces a traffic trend graph with a solid line for the current year and dotted line for previous year. Hovering over any point in the graph provides the number of Key Metric units.
             


Report Options

            
 
date settings

Date

 
  • Select Report Dates from the Report Options calendar tool or select a Custom Date Range in the top right toolbar
  • Check the Compare to Past box and select a period, if desired.

    If "Previous Period" is elected and the report date range is set to a 31-day month (e.g., July), and the previous month has only 30 days (e.g., June), then the report will include the last day of the month prior to that (e.g., May 31). This is the way the Google calculates the dates in their reports.

    We also offer a "Calendar Month(s)" option that compares each full calendar month in the report date range to the previous month(s). For example, if you select a report period of April 1 - May 31 (i.e. 61 days), the previous Calendar Months compared will be February 1 - March 31 (59 days), even though the total number of days in the 2 periods are not the same. As opposed to the "Previous Period" setting, resulting in a comparison period of January 30 - March 31 to match the 61 days of April 1 - May 31.

    The "Same Time Last Year" setting matches exact dates (e.g., January 1, 2018 - June 30, 2018 compared to January 1, 2017 - June 30, 2017).
widget settings

Widget Settings

 
  • Enter a Widget Title to be displayed above the widget (optional)
  • Color: select the graph line color (optional), see additional instructions below
  • Totals: display or hide the Totals section that includes the number of users, sessions, bounce rate and average time 
  • Chart: display or hide the chart
  • Width: set the width of the trend chart (default is 100%). When added to a marketing dashboard, this will automatically adjust to fit a half-width element (if selected)
widget color settings

Widget Color Settings (optional)

 
  • Click the Color block to launch the color palette and select a color for the chart line(s)
widget analytics settings

Analytics Settings

 
  • Select the Key Metric for the widget
Click the Apply Changes button


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