Account/Property/View switcher
If you have multiple accounts, properties, or views set up, you can easily switch between them by clicking on the pulldown menu with the title of your View in the upper-left corner.
When you open up the account picker, you can select by account, property, or view. You can also search any of these by name. To close the Account picker, click anywhere on the screen outside of the picker.
Alert icon
Clicking the bell icon in the upper right shows you alerts about your Google Analytics properties and views.
Alert menu
This may include data that is not collecting properly or a setting that needs to be optimized. To close the Alerts menu, click anywhere on the screen outside of the alerts.
Feedback, Help, and Settings
At the top right of your Analytics view are two more icons:
- The "question mark" icon lets you send feedback to Google Analytics or search Help articles
- The user icon lets you switch between different Google accounts, manage your current Google account, or sign out
Customization
The Customization section allows you to create custom reports, specific to your business. We'll cover customization in an advanced course.
Left-hand navigation
To navigate between reports, you’ll use the navigation on the left. Clicking on each of these sections will expose the reports that belong to each section.
Real-Time Reports
Real-Time reports let you look at live user behavior on your website including information like where your users are coming from and if they’re converting.
Audience Reports
Audience reports show you characteristics about your users like age and gender, where they’re from, their interests, how engaged they were, whether they’re new or returning users, and what technology they’re using.
Acquisition Reports
Acquisition reports show you which channels (such as advertising or marketing campaigns) brought users to your site. This could include different marketing channels such as:
- "Organic” (or unpaid search)
- “CPC” (“cost per click” or paid search)
- “Referral” (traffic that comes from another website)
- “Social” (from a social network)
- or “Other,” (a group of low volume traffic sources)
Behavior Reports
Behavior reports show how people engaged on your site including which pages they viewed, and their landing and exit pages. With additional implementation, you can even measure what your users searched for on your site and whether they interacted with specific elements.
Key Event Reports
Key events reports allow you to measure website goals based on your business objectives.
Admin
The Admin section contains all of your Google Analytics settings such as user permissions, measuring code, view settings, and filters.
Collapse left-hand navigation
Use this pointer to shrink the navigation and provide more space for your reports.
