Google Analytics Dashboards Now Include Real-Time Widgets

Google Analytics Dashboards Now Include Real-Time Widgets

The Dashboards feature in Google Analytics is a great way to arrange a set of related custom widgets into a report you look at frequently. Earlier this month however, Google expanded its dashboard functionality by adding four new real-time widgets that you can plug into any dashboard (new or existing).

How do I set up a real-time widget?

If you have set up a dashboard widget before, then this will be very familiar to you. Create a new dashboard or click on the +Add Widget menu option of an existing dashboard.
 
 
Pick any of the four widgets available in the Real-time: section and customise the widget. Below is a widget that shows active visitors from Canada but split up by Traffic-Type:
 
Here is how this widget was set up:
 
The ‘Counter’ real-time widget was chosen and given a custom name (“Canada Active Visitors”). Next, a ‘Group by’ on ‘Traffic type’ was set up; this is how you are able to see the split between referral and organic visits to your website in the widget. Finally, a filter was set up to only show visitors from Canada.

How do I combine with other dashboard widgets

By creating and combining widgets, you can perform many types of analysis at a glance.

Using filters you can compare different segments of your real-time traffic. For example, you can create two separate widgets that have different filters for the Country dimension (say Country==UK for one and Country==India  for another) and you can compare real-time UK traffic versus India traffic, side by side.

You can go further and set up real-time and non real-time widgets on the same dashboard. Here is how a dashboard may look like:
 
 
 

This is a non real-time widget that provides context on where visits come from across the globe over a period of one month.

 

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