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Channel Grouping



The Analytics Channel Grouping report provides insights into traffic acquisition, user engagement with the site, goal conversions and e-commerce transactions including number and rate of conversions as well as revenue.

Important! To view this report Google Analytics must be configured correctly (please refer to Rank Ranger's Google Analytics documentation).  For more information on setting up Goals for Google Analytics Traffic, please refer to Google's Create and Manage Goals documentation.


Channel Grouping Traffic Performance
Located in: Reports&Tools > Site Traffic(Analytics) > Performance
 

Goal Conversions by Channel Grouping

 

Acquisition, Behavior & Goal Conversions

Select the Goal display option and filter by All Goals or a specific Goal in the Conversions section of report options for this view.

Analytics Conversion Goals


Acquisition & Behavior Previous Period Comparison

            
 

Traffic Acquisition and User Behavior Compared to Previous Month


For this view, check the Compare to Past option in the Report Date section of report options and select Previous Period.

Traffic aquisition compared to previous month


Transactions by Channel Grouping

            
 

Acquisition, Behavior and eCommerce Transaction Performance


Check the Compare to Past option in the Report Date section of report options and select Same Time Last Year, then select Transactions in the Analytics Conversions Display field, for this view of the Channel Grouping report.

Ecommerce transactions compared to same time last year


Report Options

 
Date and compare to previous period settings


Dates

  • Select Report Dates from the Report Options calendar tool or select a Custom Date Range in the top right toolbar
  • Check the Compare to Past box and select a period, if desired.

    If "Previous Period" is elected and the report date range is set to a 31-day month (e.g., July), and the previous month has only 30 days (e.g., June), then the report will include the last day of the month prior to that (e.g., May 31). This is the way the Google calculates the dates in their reports.

    We also offer a "Calendar Month(s)" option that compares each full calendar month in the report date range to the previous month(s). For example, if you select a report period of April 1 - May 31 (i.e. 61 days), the previous Calendar Months compared will be February 1 - March 31 (59 days), even though the total number of days in the 2 periods are not the same. As opposed to the "Previous Period" setting, resulting in a comparison period of January 30 - March 31 to match the 61 days of April 1 - May 31.

    The "Same Time Last Year" setting matches exact dates (e.g., January 1, 2018 - June 30, 2018 compared to January 1, 2017 - June 30, 2017).
Report Title and traffic metric totals

General Options

  • Enter a custom report title, if desired.
  • Show or Hide the Data Source Icon(s): this displays a Google Analytics icon next to the custom report title.
  • Show or hide the Traffic Metric Totals section above the Channel table.

Analytics Settings


Show or Hide any of the following columns:
Google Analytics Conversions display type

Conversions

Select one of the conversion types to display in the report

  • Goals
  • Transactions
Google Analytics filter

Google Analytics Filter by

Select one of the filter types

  • All Sessions
  • All Goals
  • Specific Goals in the Analytics account for this domain

Select ecommerce Currency

Currency

  • Select from the list of world currencies the one you've set in the Google Analytics account for the domain.  If the currency you have set up in Google doesn't pass correctly through Google Analytics to Rank Ranger, you can change the currency symbol with this setting.
Additional Filters

Additional Filters



  • Segments: filter by built-in Segments or custom Segments that have been created in the Google Analytics account for the domain.
  • Set a Custom Filter: refer to Google's Metric Filter and Dimension Filter support documentation
Click the Apply Changes button


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