Sunday, 23 September 2012

Great Understanding first step toward Google Analytics

What is Metrics ?

Metrics are individual elements of a dimension that can be measured as a sum or a ratio. For example, the dimension City can be associated with a metrics like Population, which would have a sum value of all the residents of the specific city.

Example- Page per Visit, and Average Visit Duration are examples of metrics in Google Analytics

 What is Dimensions ?

A dimension is an descriptive attribute or characteristic of an object that can be given different values. For example, a geographic location could have dimensions called LatitudeLongitude, orCity Name. Values for the City Name dimension could be San FranciscoBerlin, or Singapore.
BrowserExit PageScreens, and Session Duration are all examples of dimensions that appear by default in Google Analytics. Dimensions appear all of your reports, though you might see different ones depending on the specific report. Use them to help organize, segment, and analyze your data. In some reports, you can add and remove dimensions to see different aspects of your data.
Example of table-

DIMENSIONMETRICMETRIC
CityArea (in sq. miles)Population
San Francisco231800,000
Berlin3343.5 million
Singapore2245.2 million


Source: Google Analytics (Learn portion)

1 comment:

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