What can you do with the real-time reports in Google Analytics?

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Bappy11
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What can you do with the real-time reports in Google Analytics?

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Only the total is reported, segments and filters do not work in these reports. You can find them in the top menu under the tab 'dashboard' (soon to be called 'Home'). Make sure you are using the new version of Google Analytics. This feature will be rolled out to all Analytics users in a phased approach, so everyone will probably have it available within 2 weeks.

Not all reports are real-time now
Unfortunately, only the Google Analytics Real-Time reports will contain up-to-date data. Due to the many possibilities and functionalities within the standard Google Analytics reports, it is currently not possible for Google to show all reports in real-time. Google states that this requires major adjustments, which are not a priority for them at the moment. The data in the other reports will therefore remain available with an acceptable delay.

Examples of what you can use such a report for:

Social media:
You can see the effect of your social media activities immediately. Now that this article hasfrance phone number list been placed on Frankwatching, I can see immediately whether visitors come to my site with Frankwatching as the referring site. The same applies to a message on Twitter. If you place a link there, you can see immediately whether your tweet has an effect on the number of visits at that moment.
Checking campaigns:
Another possibility of the Real-Time reports is that you can check whether the campaigns have been provided with the correct tags and are therefore being properly maintained, before the campaign is launched. In this way, you can see within a few seconds whether the measurements of the campaign expressions are coming through correctly, so that you know for sure that you can adjust this. You can also use this method to immediately intercept and adjust links to, for example, 404 pages. It is often the case that errors are only discovered when the campaigns are already active. The advantage now is that they appear immediately. With offline campaigns, you can use this report to see whether your TV or radio commercial is generating direct traffic at that moment. However, you can also see this later in the standard report, when you look at visitors per hour.
There are undoubtedly more customizable uses for these real-time reports. I'd love to see them in the comments!
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