How do I use the By Source/Medium reports under the Universal Analytics reports?

By Source/Medium reports under the Universal Analytics Reports demonstrate the Universal Analytics reports with respect to the different marketing sources and mediums. 

Guides to marketing sources and mediums

 

A. Navigate to: Performance AI ➡️ Google Analytics ➡️ Universal Analytics Reports ➡️ By

     Source/Medium

 

B. This will open the By Source/Medium reports under Universal Analytics:

     The first report is an Overview of all the visitors to your site in the specific time period:

a. The number of Sessions that people have on the site, in this case it's 32744, which is

    12.41% less than the earlier period. 

b. The number of New Users or people who have visited the website, in this case, it's

     180189 people, which is 16.49% less than the earlier period. 

c. The Bounce Rate or the rate at which new users leave your site without taking any

    action, in this case, it was 36.7% while earlier it was 50%.

d. The Avg Session Duration or the average time a new user spent browsing the site, in

     this case, was 02:44 Minutes, while the reference was 01:30 minutes. 

e. The No. of Pages/Session refers to the average number of webpages a user visits when

     they come to your website, in this case, it is 3.6, while the reference was 2. 

 

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   This is followed by a set of tables, the first two are Sessions and New Users:

f. The total number of the parameters are depicted at the top, in this case, the total number

    of Sessions is 327,447.

g. The  symbol can be used to bring up the full table of contents for each of the

    tables.

h. The referral source/medium caused 65790 sessions during the time period. 

i. The referral source/medium accounted for 20.1% of the sessions during the time period. 

j. The referral source/medium accounted for 29025 new users coming in during the

    time period.

k. Referral source/medium account for 14.5% of the total new users during the time

    period.

 

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     This is followed by three tables titled Bounce RateAvg. Session Duration and Page

     View per Session, in these cases, the big numbers at the top of the table depict the

     average numbers for each of these parameters

l. The email source/medium bought in users who had a bounce rate of 39.4%.

m. The email source/medium accounted for 14.6% of the total sessions for the site.

n. The (none) source/medium bought in users who had an avg. session duration of 

     2:33 minutes.

o. The (none) source/medium accounted for 18.4% of the total sessions for the site.

p. The (none) source/medium bought in users who visited 3.4 pages per session. 

q. The (none) source/medium accounted for 17.2% of the total sessions for the site.

 

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