We can't in any way, shape, or form examine how to tweak dashboards until we cover what they are in any case. Here's the manner by which Google
Characterizes Them:
Dashboards are an assortment of gadgets that give you an outline of the reports and measurements you care about most. Google Analytics Dashboards let you screen many measurements on the double, so you can check the wellbeing of your records or see connections between's various reports. To put it, your dashboards give you an outline of your site information.
What sort of information?
All things considered, every last bit of it. For instance, your dashboard can give you more data on the number of new guests you've had on your website, the normal length of their visits, and the number of them who got to your blog through cell phones. Furnished with this data, you can change your site to guarantee that it serves your crowd well. Also, reveals to you the entirety of this out of the crate without you busy.
Why Create a Custom Dashboard?
While the above sounds extraordinary, it can likewise be overpowering. Google gives a ton of information. Indeed, it knows more than 500 remarkable measurements and measurements. While this can help you drill down to the most significant data, you need to channel it to do as such. Information is acceptable once you can comprehend it's anything but a significant way.
For example, on the off chance that you run a PPC battle and several greeting pages, you'll be interested in how they perform. That implies, other than the change rates for each presentation page you may likewise need data on your guests' nation of beginning, skip rates, reference ways, and so on While Google Analytics gives this sort of information, you need to navigate a few unique menus to discover it. In spite of, with a custom dashboard, you can join everything in one spot. That way, you know the condition of your mission at a solitary look.
Sounds great? Then, at that point, we should get to the how-to part.
Making a Custom Google Analytics Dashboard Step by Step Making your own dashboard is a simple interaction. In spite of this, the main part is that you know ahead of time the thing you're attempting to follow. What are your principal destinations? This will disclose to you which gadgets and measurements to add later on.
Set Up a New Dashboard –
Next to signing into your Google Analytics account, go to Customization > Dashboards. In the menu that opens up, hit the red Create button.
This will incite a popup with two choices: Starter Dashboard and Blank Canvas.
A Starter Dashboard will go with a pre-set number of valuable gadgets, for example, ricochet rate, normal meeting span, and pages/meeting. For this instructional exercise, we will use the Blank Canvas alternative. As the name proposes, it is vacant, making you allowed to incorporate whichever gadgets and measurements you like.
Next to settling on your decision, make certain to enter a name for the dashboard. It's ideal to make it something graphic so you comprehend what it shows later on. Then, at that point click on Create Dashboard.
On the off chance that you get a popup to make gadgets, close it for the present, we will discuss that soon.
Doing so gets you here: Add Segments Any custom dashboard that you make will so apply to all guests on your site. Still, at the top, you can likewise restrict it to subsegments of your crowd or incorporate extra client fragments.
click on Add Segment to get to this rundown: Here, check the containers for any portions present in your Google Analytics account, make new fragments, or import existing ones from the Solution Gallery (more on that soon).
Whenever you have settled on a decision and clicked Apply, your decisions will then, at that point show up at the highest point of the dashboard. You will likewise discover data about each part in every one of the gadgets present on the dashboard. Figure out how to make those at this point.
Pick Your Widgets –
After this current, it's an ideal opportunity to begin adding gadgets. You can do so by means of the Add Widget button in the upper left. You can browse six diverse configuration alternatives, four of which can show site information continuously (something else, measurements are just refreshed upon stack or revive).
This is what they mean:
Metric – Here you will consider yourself to be a number. The course of events – This gadget permits the data to be displayed throughout a specific timeframe. You can likewise contrast it and another measurement.
Geomap – This allows you to see information as indicated by areas. You can choose a particular region you're especially keen on.
Table – This will show your information in a table.
Pie – Generates a pie graph of the data you are following.
Bar – Same as above just utilizing a visual chart.
Whenever you have settled on your decision, under Show the accompanying measurement, you'll likewise have to state which data you're keen on checking. This can be anything from new meetings throughout active visitor clicking percentage to time on-page and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
To assist you with choosing the particular measurement you'd like your gadget to screen, drift your mouse over the question mark close to it. This will give you a clarification of what every one of them implies.
Redo the Dashboard –
On the off chance that you are not happy with how the gadgets are orchestrated, no issue. In the upper right corner, you may tap on Customize Dashboard to pick diverse format choices. Furthermore, when you drift over the title part of any gadget, this permits you to move it to another position.
At last, very much like in many different spots of Google Analytics, you can mark the calendar range for which you need to see information in the upper right corner. This permits you to see data for a set time frame period and furthermore contrast it with some other time span with spot changes.
