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Overview

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is perhaps the best-known web analytics product and, as a free product, it has massive adoption. Although it lacks some enterprise-level features compared to its competitors in the space, the launch of the paid Google Analytics Premium edition…

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Video Reviews

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Data Vs Information: Google Analytics Polarizes User
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Easy to Train Clients: A Digital Consultant Gets the Most Out of Google Analytics
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How Google Analytics Propels Marketing Capabilities to the Next Gen
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Pricing

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Google Analytics 360

150,000

Cloud
per year

Google Analytics

Free

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

The Most Useful Google Analytics Reports: My Top 6 GA Reports

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Path Exploration in Google Analytics 4 (practical examples and 4 ideas) || Path Analysis

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Google Analytics Tutorial (de) - Die wichtigsten Funktionen - Erklärt von einem Google Mitarbeiter

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Funnel Exploration in Google Analytics 4 (Funnel Analysis in Analysis Hub)

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UTM Tracking in Google Analytics | Lesson 13

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3 ways to view Funnels in Google Analytics

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Product Details

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics Video

Google Analytics Overview

Google Analytics Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Google Analytics is perhaps the best-known web analytics product and, as a free product, it has massive adoption. Although it lacks some enterprise-level features compared to its competitors in the space, the launch of the paid Google Analytics Premium edition seems likely to close the gap.

Google Analytics starts at $0.

Adobe Analytics, Contentsquare, and Coremetrics / IBM Digital Analytics (discontinued) are common alternatives for Google Analytics.

Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Google Analytics are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Heather Robinette, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is used to understand our website traffic and help measure our marketing efforts. We will look at Google Analytics, but we also have it linked to a few tools that help combine it with other information to make it even more valuable. The product is mainly used by our marketing team and in general, it helps us with our marketing efforts and the investment we make into marketing.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Analytics to monitor all of our web traffic and referral sources. It is our tool that is used to know if the content that is created is being read if there are any issues with our website, and if a promotion or plan is working or not for a web presence.
Lindsay Halsey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is our go-to tool for web analytics. It is free, powerful, and insightful. We install Google Analytics on all of our client's websites. The whole organization uses Google Analytics, our sales team, account managers, and customers. Google Analytics gives you the data you need to make informed decisions about your marketing.
Adam Hatfield | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is the cornerstone of our web analytics. We use it to monitor our web sites performance and gain insights around past performance and future opportunities. It is used by our digital and marketing teams. The key use case for it is viewing aggregate web data across a variety of dimensions.
Meredith Lea Barber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to track our website stats and conversion rates on our landing pages. It is mainly used by the marketing department especially between demand gen and digital teams. It helps us find what is important to our users and how they are using our site and landing pages.
Dan Hanna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we use Google Analytics to monitor all of the traffic that visits our website. We are able to view all of the sources that send traffic our way. Also, it is helpful to learn about the users who come across our website. The breakdown that Google Analytics gives us is by far superior to anything else we have used that is on the market.
Rigel Cable | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Google Analytics (standard) is a robust package for free usage. It's essential for any business that is not investing in a major paid platform (like Premium). About 10% of my clients use Google Analytics standard instead of a premium or paid analytics platform.
Sanjit Mandal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for a lot of stuff:
  • Checking from there traffic is coming from
  • Top landing pages
  • Top exit pages
  • Time on site/page
  • Conversions
  • Creating reports
  • Audience insights
  • Desktop/Mobile visits, and much more!
For a free tool, this is outstanding. You can give users access to see this as well. Really understanding what a business needs, and then pairing Google Analytics to help support those goals is the best way to use it. Otherwise, you will spend countless hours in Google Analytics and not have any actionable tasks.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a media company, we rely on Google Analytics to monitor the performance of our contents -- mostly news stories. We track what type of articles performs best and at which platform, to know what we should focus on and where we can improve. Google Analytics is used by the Editorial, Sales, and Marketing departments.
Jonghee Jo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is being used mainly in the Digital Analytics organization. We are using Google Analytics to report and analyze website traffic and conversion data. Also, we are using Google Analytics to inspect bot traffic patterns.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is a great tool shared between our IT and marketing departments at our college. Google Analytics allows us to collect data that can provide important insights about the visitors to our school site. The data is being used extensively to take important decision for our marketing department on who to target while doing the marketing campaigns.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is being used to track and analyze any web traffic. It addresses questions like: "How many people are filling out our trial form?", "How many use this web page?", "Who's coming to our site and from where?" and more. It's mostly being used by the Marketing department, but is being used by some product teams to track key KPI's and determine the performance of prototypes or production products.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Analytics across our whole organization for dozens of websites, but primarily for our flagship corporate site. It addresses our business need of measuring traffic to web pages and other measurements such as bounce rate, time on page and demographic information. We do some work with different types of segmentation and advanced analytics, although I personally do not delve into that area.
September 13, 2019

Google Analytics Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is being used to track visitors and conversions across multiple sites to understand acquisition by channel for optimizing lead generation. It provides a solution in understanding where leads are coming from and the ROI from marketing activity to better optimize the marketing budget for growth.
September 12, 2019

Google Analytics Review

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Google Analytics (GA) to help many of our clients run A/B Tests and other personalization campaigns through tools such as Adobe Target, Optimizely, Google Optimize, etc. While we also used GA for general site deep-dive data inquiries, we were primarily focused on leveraging it to aid our analysis regarding our testing programs.
Matthew Harris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Analytics to track the usage of our website, the SEO keywords analysis, and traffic behaviors to understand where people are being directed from. With google analytics were able to better position keyword strategies, understand what marketing to invest in and where the conversions are coming from. Google Analytics is constantly coming out with new features to help understand our site traffic.
Stephanie Erlita Arifin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Used by e-commerce department within our whole group as the obvious and worldwide accepted solution to measure traffic, sessions, sources of traffic, product/sales performance, sales versus actual sales, flow & journey of customers, user experience, cities performance, and site speed.
September 11, 2019

The KPI King!

Lisa Palombo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Analytics to measure specific KPIs related to our website and social media activity. For example, we recently completed a redesign of the website and the user experience, so we are tracking metrics like time on page, number of page visits, unique visitors and the blog roll very closely.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is being used by the marketing department and shared with the owners of the company. We use Google Analytics to determine what our presence is online, how people are finding us and what they are looking for in our services.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used to track all our traffic analysis. Along with our traffic analysis, we are also using this for conversion tracking as we set up the goals in the analytics. For now, it is only used by the Marketing department but we have a plan to introduce this platform to the whole organization.
James Arnold | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Analytics is the best, easiest and least expensive analytics platform on the market. We use it to monitor the health of our web site and see the customer journey. Specifically, with our current company, which is relatively small and new, it teaches us quickly what topics are of most interest to our prospects. Without GA, we just wouldn't know.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our business is an online website. We use Google Analytics to track site traffic, overall engagement on the site, key events that happen -- all with an aim toward understanding our user base and what is working and not working on our site and our efforts to increase traffic and engagement (and monetization!)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love Google Analytics. It's a free tool and fairly easy to understand once it's installed by a developer team. All my clients at the agency use Google Analytics to understand their web traffic
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