{"id":2956,"date":"2017-09-18T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.santarosawebsite.com\/websitedesign\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2017-09-18T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T15:15:02","slug":"google-analytics-customization-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/google-analytics-customization-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Analytics Part #2 \u2013 The Customization Tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to part two of our Google Analytics tutorial. On the left end side column you will notice the second menu titled &#8220;Customization&#8221;. This is the section we will be focusing on today. It is split into 4 sections: Dashboard, Custom Reports, Saved Reports, and Custom Alerts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Dashboard<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Google Analytics comes with a default dashboard which is well done but may not show the data that is most important to you. For instance, you may not care about visitors from outside the country if you are dentist, but you may want to see the demography of your site&#8217;s visitors. If this is your situation, you can customize the way your dashboard looks and the data it displays. This speeds up your review each time you log in since all of the information you want will appear first.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Custom Reports<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The same is true for custom reports. You can click on &#8220;Create&#8221; and establish a report that shows the exact information you wish to track down. Again, this simplifies the process each time you go to your Google Analytics account.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Saved Reports<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"drop-head\">This gives you quicker access to the reports you use most often.<\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<p>Indeed the saved reports remember your unique settings so you do not have to reconfigure a report each time. Anytime you add a new element to your report, it will remember it again saving you time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Custom Alerts<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When you add a custom alert, it is visible only to you in your current reporting view and in any other views to which you apply the alert.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Google has made it easier to customize their platform to your specific reporting needs. It may take time to set the dashboard, reports, and alerts at first, but it is guaranteed to save you lots of time in the future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2972\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"petaluma wp-image-2972 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.santarosawebsite.com\/websitedesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/analytics.jpg\" alt=\"analytics for websites\" width=\"582\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/analytics.jpg 582w, https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/analytics-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Analytics Tutorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to part two of our Google Analytics tutorial. On the left end side column you will notice the second menu titled &#8220;Customization&#8221;. This is the section we will be focusing on today. It is split into 4 sections: Dashboard, Custom Reports, Saved Reports, and Custom Alerts. Dashboard Google Analytics comes with a default dashboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,309],"tags":[157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}