Getting Started - Analytics
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Getting Started with GoSquared Analytics
GoSquared’s Analytics dashboards unlock the key website metrics you need every day, without the complexity and learning curve of more complex Analytic…
An Introduction to Trends
GoSquared Trends is the easiest way to see what’s been happening on your website. While the Now dashboard shows you what’s happening right now on your…
Browsers, Devices & Traffic Sources
Browsers The browsers widget in Dashboard shows all the browsers that visitors are currently using to visit a site. The number on the right hand side …
Key Metrics
👋 The first thing you'll notice in Trends is are the line graphs (timelines) at the top of the page – these are your most important key metrics. You…
Timeline
GoSquared Timeline enables you to see an overview of your website's traffic over time. Timeline gives you an easy to understand graph of today's traff…
Campaigns (Trends)
✋ Don’t spend another penny on poor-performing Marketing campaigns! The campaigns widget in Trends shows you the top campaigns that have brought visi…
Timeline Notifications
This article is about the Notification widget and timeline milestones in the Now dashboard. Note: If you’re looking for message notifications – read …
Traffic
The Traffic meter is always located at the top left of the Now dashboard in GoSquared Analytics. It shows you how many visitors are concurrently on yo…
Engagement (Now)
The Engagement widget in the Now dashboard shows you how people are actually using your site right now. Many analytics services show you how many peop…
Event Tracking
Part 1: What is Event Tracking? Part 2: Example Code Part 3: ➡️ Video Tutorial ⬅️ on setting up an Example Event What is Event Tracking? Event tra…
Events
👀 The Events widget in Trends enables you to see the most frequently fired events across your site, over any given day, week or month. Events takes…
Engagement (Trends)
Quickly jump to our definition of bounce rate. Actively Engaged Time per Visitor Explained GoSquared tracks several metrics to see if a visitor is s…
Locations & Languages
Locations The Locations widget shows you how many people are currently on your website right now and where they are visiting from. The world map show…
Content
The Content widget shows you which pages are popular on your website right now. It updates in real time. The list of pages is ordered by popularity - …
Tracking Multiple Sites
If you have multiple websites or apps, you can use GoSquared to track them all under your one account. You'll need to create a new 'project' to track …
Set Up Campaign Tracking (UTM)
GoSquared campaign tracking allows you to easily monitor the performance of your ad campaigns in real-time. If the goal of your campaign is to drive t…
Block Visitor IPs and Bots
✋ A blocked visitor will not show up in GoSquared Analytics and will not be able to send or receive messages through Assistant. Blocking visitors appl…
Twitter Search (Sunset)
🌇 Due to changes announced by Twitter to their API we are unfortunately no longer able to support Twitter widgets. As of 07/02/2023, the GoSquared Tw…
Campaigns (Now)
📊 With GoSquared’s Campaign widget, you can see which of your Marketing campaigns are most effective at driving traffic to your site. Video Guide …
Traffic Spike Alerts
⚠️ Traffic alerts provide you with automatic notifications should your traffic drop below a certain level or you receive a sudden traffic spike. This …
Edit Dashboard Layouts
You can rearrange or hide specific widgets in your Now and Trends dashboard. To get started, just hit the edit button on the dashboard or use the keyb…
Operating Systems
The Operating Systems widget in Dashboard shows the number of visitors currently on a site visiting from a certain operating system. As with other wid…
Search Terms and Unknown Query
🔍 You may notice that when viewing the Sources widget most of the searches say (Unknown Query). This is a problem that affects all analytics services…
Export Trends Data to a CSV
Export your data as CSV without writing any code. You can easily download any of the the data displayed in the widgets on the Trends and Ecommerce das…
Organisations
Many large corporations use IP address blocks which are registered to their company. When someone from one of these IP addresses visits a site trackin…
Visitors (Now dashboard)
The Visitors widget shows you a list of every visitor currently viewing your website in real-time. Visitor list The 3 tabs at the top of the widget fi…
Frequently Asked Questions about Analytics
👋 Can’t find an answer? Just reach out to us at support@gosquared.com Why are my GoSquared Analytics numbers different to Google Analytics? All ana…