Analayze page views

How to see page views of CERG website pages using Google Analytics.

Visit CERG's Google Analytics page

Ensure you are logged in to your SFU Google account and have gotten access by IT Services. If you don't have access, request analytics access here.

Go to Google Analytics Pageviews & Sessions page

If you aren't already on the "Pageviews & Sessions" page, click the "Pageviews & Sessions" link in the left sidebar to navigate to that page.

Choose a date range

Click the date range in the top right corner of the page to select a date range for which you want to see page views. You can select a custom date range or choose from the preset options.

Find metrics for a specific page

Use the search bar at the top of the page to search for a specific page by its URL.

1. Copy the page URL from the CERG website
2. Paste the URL into the search bar in Google Analytics and press enter.
3. The search results will show you the page views and sessions for that specific page.

Find metrics from a specific source

If you want to know how many people visited a page using a link from a specific source, you can use the search bar to filter the results by source.

Enter in the search bar: ?utm_source=example where example is the source you want to track.

For example, if you want to see how many people visited a page from ChatGPT, you would enter: ?utm_source=chatgpt

Creating visualizations for page views over time

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With Google Data Studio

Right click on any data point or table and select the "Explore" feature. From there, you can create a number of visualizations.

Currently, clicking "Explore from Here" currently ends in a configuration error:

Explore	Data Configuration Error

If the "Explore" feature is fixed in the future, Max will update this page with instructions on how to use it to create visualizations of page views over time.

With Excel

Currently, there's no way to export time-series data directly from Google Analytics. Your best bet is to record the data manually using a spreadsheet and create the visualizations in Excel:

Add Data

Use this excel spreadsheet to record page views:

Go to Excel Spreadsheet

In Google Data Studio select the date range for the month you want to track page views for and record the page views for each page in the spreadsheet:

Set date range	Input in Excel

View graph

1. In the "Data" sheet, go to the "View" tab
2. Click on the Sheet View dropdown menu in the top left corner and select "Chart View"
3. The line charts will now only show the months with data in them
4. To add more data to each month, reselect the "Default" sheet view