Schedule Statistics Reports By Email

If you have a free Google Analytics account linked to your website you can navigate to any section of your statistics,  then schedule a report to be emailed to you/someone else every week/month/day.

The sort of reports you might benefit from seeing regularly are:

• Weekly Summary (the first page you see when you click on View Reports)
• Most popular posts by title (look under Content tab, then Content by title)
• Posts by a certain author (go to Content by title, then add author’s name to the filter box)
• New subscribers to your newsletter (first setup a goal with your subscribe page url, click on Goals)

Email Yourself a Weekly Summary

1. Login to your Google Analytics account.
2. Click on View Reports beside your website address
3. Click on the grey Email button at the top of the page
4. Fill in boxes to send report immediately or click the Schedule tab
5. Enter additional email addresses ro recieve the report or leave as send to me
6. Add a subject (tip: setup a mail rule to put these emails into a Stats folder under your inbox)
7. Add Description (mostly useful if emailing to others or if you are creating lots of reports)
8. Choose format (pdf is easy but excel compatible formats mean you can keep all stats in a spreadsheet)
9. Choose how often you would like to receive your report
10. Tick Comparison box to include a comparison of previous month/week.
11. Click Schedule button.

Email Report Showing New Subscribers to Your Newsletter

This is really useful if you use the Post Notification plugin to send an email newsletter from your WordPress website as it doesn’t notifiy you of new subscribers. I really like comparison feature on this one too so you can see which of your new content is enticing more subscribers.

1. Login to your Google Analytics account.
2. Click on edit on the far right of your website address to create a new goal
3. Give your goal a name, make it activate, select URL Destination as goal type
4. Tick exact match and paste the full web addfress of your subscribe page into the URL box
5. Save your goal and return to dashboard
6. Click on View Reports beside your website address
7. Using the Goals tab on left sidebar, click through to the new goal you have created
8. Click on the grey Email button at the top of the page
9. Click the Schedule tab
10. Enter additional email addresses ro recieve the report or leave as send to me
11. Add a subject (Eg. New Subscribers)
12. Add Description (Eg. New subscribers to my email newsletter.)
13. Choose format (pdf is easy but excel compatible formats mean you can keep all stats in a spreadsheet)
14. Choose how often you would like to receive your report
15. Tick Comparison box to include a comparison of no. of subscribers in previous month/week.
16. Click Schedule button.

Email a Sponsor/Contributor Reports on His Posts

1. Login to your Google Analytics account.
2. Click on View Reports beside your website address
3. Click on Content on left sidebar, then Content by title
4. Add the bottom of the list, type the authors name/company name or keyword into the filter box.
5. Click on the grey Email button at the top of the page and follow instructions as for above examples.