Google data Studio & Analytics

I am using Google Data Studio to create a dashboard. It is using Google Analytics as the data source.

I am at a stumbling block. I can get the count of Page Titles for a date range, but I would like to increase the granularity to community and domain level. I can parse the screen URL and get an approximation of the community (not the domain), but that is not very accurate.

Is there anyway to get the “real” number of Page Title hits for a community / domain?

Additionally, if a page has, say, 50 hits. Is that one user 50 times or 50 users one time, or what?

michaelwalter

Posted 4 years ago · Edited 2 years ago·Last reply 4 years ago

2 comments

michaelwalter

OP4 years ago · Edited

I’ll give that a try. Thanks.

Ann Wuyts

·4 years ago · Edited

Hi Michael,

Some tips that might help you improve your reporting on Community > Domain > Asset view:
(All done in the Google Analytics GUI. I’m sure that others here can help you translate this to Google Data Studio. )

1. Add page title as a secondary dimension
Site content > all pages; then add the secondary dimension

Using advanced filters (eg ‘contains DomainName’ on the page title) this allows you to filter for top assets of a certain type (eg. domain, community)

2. Finding most visited community or domain pages, or most popular assets within their type
Use the advanced filter and look for either ‘domain’, ‘community’ on URL

(this will give you the top domains and lowest-level communities)

Use the advanced filter and look for the asset type name (eg. dataset) in the Page Title

Two things haven’t found out yet about how to do using GA (easily – without pulling in data) are:

Filtering assets per domain/community (eg. see the top 10 assets in domain X)
Doing a roll-up (eg. see the top 10 assets in ‘sub-community Y’)

For the page title, we chose a simple but accessibility correct format:
[assetname] | [asset-type] | Collibra Data Governance Center
Usage Metrics | Data Set | Collibra Data Governance Center

It makes sense to hear from you what we could improve (at the asset level, at the asset view level, etc) beyond just reporting (accessibility, bookmarking, sharing, …).

For GA ‘hits’, there are various types;

Pageview hit / Pageload
Event hit (an event where a specific tracking code is applied for, likely not applicable for you)
Exception hit, which tracks errors and crashes

For GA the pageload hits, these count at as unique events. So one user refreshing (or re-accessing) 50 times counts as 50 hits. I believe that in GA reporting you can filter this out if you start looking at sessions.

I hope some of the above helped. It’s been a while since I’ve looked into GA in general, so happy to learn more. Please do share what you achieve/find out here!