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.

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Google Analytics and WordPress

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