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Traffic on any website can be enhanced with various methods and strategies that are meant for this.
One basic example is search engine optimization which is a powerful method for all the web owners in
the present scenario. Other methods include banner advertisements on other websites for traffic
diversion. Moreover, frequent content posting for the newly introduced products or news is also very
beneficial for this matter.
It is basically a platform which enables web owners to closely monitor and keep an eye on the web
traffic i.e. overall number of visitors on their website. This is actually very important to keep up the
pace in the long run and to understand what the best sources of web traffic for a website are. It is not
always necessary that they are same for all the platforms. Google Analytics is also very beneficial for
understanding the strategies that need to be implemented for enhancing the traffic on a website.
It is very beneficial to do so in order to understand how and when the search engine spiders visit a
website. It is very helpful in understanding how the same can be improved. Google analytics is a
powerful tool and the fact is its web traffic needs to be enhanced continuously for attaining maximum
growth.
Q4: What are the major barriers according to you about enhancing the web traffic is?
One of the biggest and in fact a major challenge is the frequently changing needs and taste of people.
It is very much true that everyone needs something new with respect to time. A lot of sincere efforts
are required to make a customer trust a business. This can only be done if one has right tools such as
Google Analytics available. Also, the competition is the next major factor that largely affects this task.
It is useful in making the same more superior and useful. This is because it clearly defines examples in
information. At the same time, it make sure that a task can be made more clear to the team which is
handling it for the purpose of enhancing the overall traffic.
Q6: What exactly can be analyzed with the help of Google Analytics?
Q8: How can you say that Google Analytics is better than other similar tools?
The fact is it is the widely used tool that is considered all by a very large number of organizations. It is
available as a free and in a premium version meant only for the enterprises. Google Analytics comes
with some excellent features and functionalities that no other tool or platform can provide. The good
thing is all the features are customizable and users can always make sure of a favorable fortune.
Web Analytics can simply make a business understand the behavior, nature and other similar factors
of the traffic a website got. A business can get a lot from this approach and can generate a lot of Meta
data with the help of which it is possible to generate more and more leads in the shortest possible
time.
Q10: How Complex Analyzing web traffic according to you is without having a proper tool available for
this task?
Well, there is nothing wrong to say that understanding or analyzing traffic on a website without
having the availability of proper tool is a very daunting task. This is because it needs a lot of factors to
be paid attention and that’s all at the same time. Of course, it is not possible for the web or business
owners. Next big thing is it needs a lot of time which in fact is already a major issue with most of the
businesses in the present scenario.
It is basically an approach in which the customization of code in Google Analytics is done and utilized.
The primary aim is either to target a specific group of users of the internet or to track another action
or event that can help diverting the traffic towards a website.
Q12: Among the Bouncing rate and the exit rate, which is more important and why?
Both of these are equally necessary as they provide some of the very useful information that can be
utilized to enhance the traffic on any website. The fact is they provide clear information about the
errors and other problems due to which users are not able to explore the data and leave the website
immediately. With certain actions, the same can be paid special attention. They are considered when
they both increases beyond a limit in a very short period of time.
It is true that many times there is a need for webmasters to know how much traffic is there on a
specific webpage of their website. This is exactly where the PageView in the Google Analytics are
considered. They can also be utilized to know which feature of a website was explored more than
other while calculating the traffic.
Q15: Suppose you need to stop using the Google Analytics at any stage, is it possible to temporary
disable it?
Q16: What are Event in the Google Analytics and how it is useful?
Events is a powerful feature in Google Analytics that helps users understands about the interest of
past visitors or traffic on a website. It is easy to use and is known to offer very accurate information
based on the activities happened on a website earlier.
Sometimes there is a need to refine the objectives that are predefined. Thus there is a need to
characterize the URL so that Google Analytics can understand the same. Doing this is not always an
easy approach. Because changes need to be made familiar with the Google Analytics, the process is
known as Conversations and is one of the very important modules in the approach.
Q18: Can you name the three important elements of event tracking?
Q19: What is the limit of overall number of websites for analytics traffic with Google Analytics?
There is no such limit and users can always keep up the pace in this matter.
Q20: What should be the goal of Google Analytics according to you is?
In addition to helping the users in understanding the behavior of web traffic, it is also a powerful
approach that provides very useful information about the activities that any web owner should keep
on the screen. It let them know what exactly the visitors like and what they really don’t explore on
their website.
Q21: What are the normal channels that you can add to the changes without waiting for anything in
the Google Analytics?
These are:
1. Referral
2. Natural hunt
3. Informal ones
4. E-mails
Depending on the other factors and situations, it is possible to add other channels also.
Well, Google Analytics provide all the useful information about the keywords that send paid traffic. It
is actually regarded as one of the best features in it. This is because it helps selecting the same
keywords again and again in the future. There is a column in the Display section from where such
information can easily be accessed. Thus, users need not to worry about their selected keywords
when they are using the Google Analytics.
Q23: What exactly do you know about the Google Analytics Segment?
These are nothing but a group of common activities that are performed by the visitors on a website.
They help web owners to know and understand them. The same can be used for future traffic
generation strategies. For example, a specific webpage is explored more on a website, the same can
be promoted more in the future to attract the attention of more and more users.
Q24: Is it possible for you to integrate the Google Analytics with other web traffic tools?
Well, Google analytics has all the features and modules available within it to handle all the tasks.
There is not always a need to integrate it with other tools. However, with some customization, it is
possible to integrate it with the other powerful tools to get maximum results.
Q25: Would you access the visitor’s or user’s personal information with the Google Analytics?
No, the same is not allowed. However, visitors can be convinced to subscribe to various services such
as a newsletter. Also, Google analytics and other authorized tools don’t support this. Doing this is
actually considered as a Black-Hat SEO approach. Also, it’s illegal and thus there is no need for any
business to go for this.
Q26: When “Treemap” was considered in the Google Analytics, What is its scope?
It was done in the last phase of 2014. It is actually an approach that has made reporting very easy.
Somewhere, it depends on the Google Adwords and makes use of same to perform its tasks. The good
thing is now all sorts of reports can easily be generated and managed in the Google Analytics. In
addition to this, it helps keeping the records in a well-defined manner by eliminating all the challenges
associated with the same.
Q27: How Funnels and Goals are different from one another?
Both of them are good enough to understand and to boost the conversation rate with the clients
during the vent organizations and other similar campaigns on a web. It is because of this reason both
these are very popular in Google Analytics and simply enable users to get results in the way
It is possible to customize the GA but not as a whole. In case the need if felt, a few features and
modules are allowed to make some changes to make it fit the needs of a user.
It stands for Revenue per click and as the name clearly indicates, provides a lot of useful information
about the same.
This is almost always the first Google Analytics interview question you will face. Google Analytics is a
free web analytics tool offered by Google to help you track and analyze the performance of your
website.
Google Analytics records various activities of users when they visit your site like user engagement, visitor
flow, number of conversions, along with attributes such as age, gender, interests with the help of
tracking code.
Google Analytics aggregates the data in multiple ways like User level, Session level, Pageview level,
Event level.
The main purpose of the tool is to help you make decisions to improve the site performance and
revenue.
2. What is session?
When a user visits a site, a session gets initiated. It lasts for 30 minutes, though it can be changed. A
session can be defined as the number of interactions a user takes within a time frame on the website.
The actions can be visit pages, download e-books, purchases products, etc. As session times out, non-
active users won’t distort data. Example, visitors who keep your website open in a different tab won’t be
counted past the 30-minute session marker.
A goal in Google Analytics let you track user interactions on your site. You can define which interactions
you want to track like visiting thank you page after purchase, form submissions, ebook downloads and
more. It helps you measure how well your website converts and fulfil your target objectives.
b) Time (Duration Goals – how long your visitor last in your website)
4. What is meant by conversions and how will you track conversions through GA?
One of the important questions suggested by most of Google analytics questions and answer guides.
Conversions happen when your predefined Google Analytics goals are accomplished thus generating ROI
to the website.
For example, if the user takes any desired action on the website, like filling the form or signing up a
newsletter, or simply showing a high level of engagement, etc. Goals can be utilized in Google analytics
to set the conversion tracking.
Any completed user activity that is important for your business is called conversion. In normal words, a
conversion is a successful accomplishment of a predefined goal.
KPI or Key Performance Indicator is a measurable performance indicator helps website managers to
track and analyze the performances of the websites based on defined business objectives. It helps them
operationalization of their marketing goals.
Users
Bounce Rate
Average Time
Conversion Rate
Pages/Sessions
Pageviews
One of the most common google analytics interview question, a funnel is a series of web pages
(navigation path) which your visitors needs to go through to achieve website goals.
A funnel is made up of one goal web page and one or more funnel pages.
It helps you determine where your users start and exit the sales process. Based on the analysis, you can
remove the bottlenecks in your conversion process. Up to 20 funnel pages can be set up in Google
analytics.
Goal Funnel
Sales Funnel
According to Google, The attribution tab shows how many conversion events were driven by each
source and ad network”
There are two sections in Google Analytics that help you know your attribution performance. One is the
Attribution section and another one is multi-channel funnels.
Attribution section uses attribution modelling to let you know the value of each of your marketing
channels. It helps you understand the origin of your site visitors like organic, social, and referrals. It is
the process of distributing credits for conversions to touchpoints in a user’s conversion journey.
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One of the most common question in any Google Analytics interview question. Bounce rate is the
percentage of website users who leaves the website from the landing page without visiting any other
page or without taking any specific action.
According to Google, Bounce rate is single-page sessions divided by all sessions or the percentage of all
sessions on your site in which users viewed only a single page and triggered only a single request to the
Analytics server.
To lower the bounce rate, increase the engagement on your page (with the help of internal links, CTA,
etc), increase page speed, matching user experience and more.
Bounce rate benchmarks change from genre to genre. Blogs tend to have high bounce rates and B2B
sites should have lesser. Benchmarks also changes based on the industry.
9. What are the top channels Google Analytics uses to track your traffic sources?
Organic: People click search engine organic visit and land on your website
Direct: People who write down your website domain on URL bar on the browser and visit your
website
Paid: People who click on PPC ads in SERP.
Referral: People who come to your site from other sites like Quora.com, Reddit.com, etc.
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11. How to identify the most popular pages on my website in Google Analytics?
To find the top pages of your website, you need to visit the behavior section of Google analytics.
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Again, one of the important google analytics interview question. The simple answer is: The behavior
overview shows the amount of overall traffic.
The behavior flow report shows you the path users take on your website. From the first landing page to
the final page they visited on your website.
Landing page report lets you see the top pages based on traffic.
Site speed report shows the graph of the load time of all pages.
13. Tell me about Dimensions & Metrics in Google Analytics.
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We can understand that dimensions are a featured or aspect of your data. It is not a quantitative
variable but a qualitative one. Let us give us some examples
Device
Source
Campaign
City
Goals
Page
Metrics are the numbers you find in dimensions. Metrics let you see what a user did, in numerical value.
It is a quantitative measurement. Without dimensions, otherwise, it’s just numbers.
For example: If you find 50 page views for a specific blog post from NY, page views are metric and NY is
the dimension here.
Exit Percentage is the percentage of site exits that occurred from a specified page or set of pages. It is
the page on your site that the visitor left from.
Filters are used to segment the data into smaller groups. Filters let you control which data is included in
the reports. For example, you can filter out the internal traffic from showing inside analytics,
With the help of In-Page Analytics, can find where visitors are clicking most. In-page analytics is an
extension of Google Chrome that helps you see the click data right there on the page.
Any Google Analytics Interview Question and Answers guide won’t complete without this question.
Cookies are the text files that are stored on the visitor’s browsers when a visitor visits the website.
It is essential to remember that cookies are browser-specific when it comes to ga.js. So, a user on
chrome on their work laptop will have different cookies stored than if they are using chrome on their
home computer.
UA stands for Universal Analytics. The Universal Analytics tracking code can be found in the admin
section of the web property.
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No, we cannot delete the goal. We can stop recording the goal by disabling it.
The avg. amount of the time taken by the website to load it in the browser.
Again, one of the popular Google analytics interview questions. Yes, by clicking on the session settings in
the admin section let us change the session timings from 30 mins to however we like.
Treemap visualization let the user highlight the biggest influence of a data set. One of the advantages of
treemap visualization is how easily it can display correlated display. It has made reporting easy. Many
kinds of reports can be managed easily in GA.
Demographics in Google Analytics offers to give detail about the age and gender of the website visitors,
along with the interests they express through their online travel and purchasing activities. It can be
found in the ‘Audience Report’ of Google analytics.
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The site search button on the website helps users to search inside the website. The site search reports in
GA allows website managers to find the keywords or queries people use to search on the website. It
helps them to understand what people search and design or optimize pages accordingly. Mainly used by
e-commerce websites, so if you are attending a Google analytics interview of eCommerce website, learn
more about it.
Users are that have had at least one session within the given time frame. Both active and repeated users
are counted.
30. What is the most important things in Google Analytics you will want to analysis?
Google Analytics gives a lot of information and each information is essential. But there are few things we
concentrate every day like the number of sessions, traffic sources, top-performing pages, funnel and
goal conversions, bounce and exit rate.
The clicks column indicates how many times your users clicked your website listing while users indicate
the number of unique users who clicked your listing.
There are many reasons why these numbers don’t match. Important reasons are:
A user might click on the listing but closed the page before loading it properly.
32. What is the difference between Clicks and Sessions in Google Analytics reports?
The clicks column indicates how many times your listings were clicked by users and session indicates the
number of unique sessions initiated by users. There are many reasons why these don’t match. Primary
reasons are:
A user might click but closed the page before loading fully
A pageview (or pageview hit, page tracking hit) is an instance of a page being loaded (or reloaded) in a
browser. Pageviews is a metric defined as the total number of pages viewed.
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To use search console reports, you need to enable search console data sharing in settings.
How to do:
We can use event tracking or we can track interactions as pageviews and set goals.
One of the most popular in google analytics questions and answers list. ROI stands for Return on
Investments.
You can utilize the ROI analysis report to find the ROI implications of your multi-channel funnel data-
driven attribution model.
It is one of the common Google analytics interview questions. Events are user interactions with content
that can be tracked independently from a web page or a screen load.
Downloads, mobile ad clicks, gadgets, Flash elements, AJAX embedded elements, and video plays are all
examples of actions you might want to track as Events.
For example, if you like to see how many visitors download an ebook, watched a video, you can set up
event tracking.
Categories
Actions
Labels
43. What is RPC in Google Analytics?
RPC stands for Revenue Per Clicks is an e-commerce metric available in Google analytics. Which simply
says the value of each click. With the help of RPC, you can identify the keywords which are affecting your
campaign. It is not a common google analytics question but can be asked sometimes to check your in-
depth knowledge.
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Custom dimensions and custom metrics are like default dimensions and metrics in your Google Analytics
account, except they are created by you to collect and analyze data Analytics don’t track otherwise.
You need to have edit permission to create or edit custom dimensions and metrics.
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As the name implies, the report follows the user journey to the destination page. Reverse goal path
report retraces the last three steps that the visitor took in finishing a goal.
The report helps the webmaster to analyze the number of conversions generated by each conversion
path. It provides a rewind replay of the journey.
How to access?
Go to Conversions > Goals > Reverse Goal Path to access the report.
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A slow site can harm your website ranking. So, it’s important to have good website speed. To collect site
speed data, Go to reports, select behavior > site speed.
Site speed reports show how quickly your website loads and ready to interact with visitors. It helps you
to identify the areas to be improved.
Execution speed or load time of any discrete hit, event, or user interaction that you want to
track
How quickly the browser parses the document and makes it available for user interaction.
47. How to avoid spam in GA?
We can customize the GA but not as a whole. Few features and modules can be customized according to
our needs.
Time lag report helps us to find the time lag in between the original session and completion of the goal.
Visit duration report categorizes the visits based on the amount of time, visitors spend on the site.
We use the action parameter to name the type of event we want to measure. This action is literally what
the user does.
Conversion report is a detailed report on if the visitors have completed the pre-defined goal. It says
whether the visitor converted to customer or not. The conversion report shows you the path your
customers take, from the entrance to completing a purchase or filling the form.
It is one of the general Google analytics interview questions and answers guide. Let’s see account,
property and views in detail.
An account is your access point for Analytics. You need at least one account to access analytics. You can
define the relationship between account and properties depends on your requirements. You can either
have one to one relationship or you can have one to many relationships.
Property is a website, mobile app or device. An account can have multiple properties. When we add a
property to an account, it generates the code that we can use to gather data from the property. The
code contains a unique ID that identifies the data from that property.
View is your access point for reports. We can offer views to users so they can find the reports based on
view’s data.
A category is a name that you supply to a group of similar events you want to analyze. For example,
profitable engagement, YouTube videos, Reading, etc.
55. What is Google Segments?
A segment is a subset of your analytics data. Like a piece of cake in your whole big cake of data. For
example, among your entire set of users, one segment might be from Mumbai. Another segment might
be users who downloaded an ebook from the website.
Segments help you separate and understand the subsets of data to help you examine the trends in the
business. For example, if you see people from Delhi stopped using your service recently, you can check if
your local competitor started a campaign or your local page has any technical issues, etc.
Segment types:
Subsets of users
Subsets of sessions
Subsets of hits
Real time reports give information about the traffic, insights, reactions, sources and more on a real time
basis. The reports get updated immediately and hit is reported seconds after it occurs.
How to see?
By multi-channel funnels report, you can analyse how your marketing channels work together to create
conversions. The report helps to demonstrate the value of the channel. With the help of a specific
campaign, you can further identify which is driving conversions.Top Social Media Marketing Interview
Questions
58. What is the best way to track e-commerce sales through Google analytics?
After you install the pixels, go to the admin panel of Google analytics. Under “All website data” you can
find “eCommerce settings”. Switch on to turn on the eCommerce tracking. Also, turn advanced features
like Related products or enhanced eCommerce reporting.
The behavior flow report shows the journey of the visitors from one section to the next. This report
helps you identify content or continuity issues on the website. It shows the navigation behaviour of
users which is very helpful for eCommerce websites. It helps you discover which content works better
for you.
With the assisted conversion, we can identify the values of channels which helps at the initial, mid-level
cycle. This helps businesses to stop ignoring channels which take the customers to the final marketing
channel which eventually gets converted.
With multiple channels and routes to your audience all playing diverse role in bringing consumers
toward the final outcome, each channel deserves credit. That is why assisted conversions are important.
The group might be simply previous shoppers or it can be as specific as audiences who viewed the page
for product A and then within 5 sessions or 10 days returned to purchase the product.
It can be broad or very specific based on your needs. It gives us information about visitors to help you
understand your buyer persona.
Remarketing audience is required to run remarketing campaigns in Google ads. Users who had already
engaged with your website but didn’t convert can become your audience. After the list is ready, you can
target those audiences with special offers and initialize your remarketing campaign.
UTM stands for Urchin Tracking Module. UTM Parameters are added to URLs in order to track organic
traffic, referral traffic and CPC (Cost Per Click) traffic.
The UTM is appended to your website URL in order to make them unique and also make it easy for you
to track the exact source of your website visitors. The various UTM parameter includes:
Explorer
Flat Table
Map OverlayExplorer:A Standard Google analytics report that consists line graph and data table
that include dynamic the elements like search, sort and secondary dimensions.Flat Table:A
static sortable table that displays that data in rows.Map overlay:A Map of the world of different
regions and countries displaying in darker colours to indicate the traffic and engagement
volume.
65. How can you set up and install tracking for mobile apps?
Install tracking code lets you gather and send data from mobile apps to your analytics account.
Enable app install tracking in your account for android and iOS
Custom parameters can be added to your landing page URLs and it’s an advanced type of URL
parameter.
Define your parameters – Custom parameters have two parts (Name and Value)
Honestly, this is one of the regular questions in the google analytics interview question. To answer this
you have to understand why google does this.
In October 2011, Google changed the way it harvests data from search to protect users’ privacy.
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This is one of the advanced google analytics interview question. Cohort is a group of users who share a
common characteristic, identified by an Analytics dimension. Cohort can also be understood as a group
of visits who share the same content with the same time. Cohorts in analytics are based on acquisition
date.
Cohort type
Cohort size
Metric
Date range
Attribution model is the rule, or set of rules, that determines how credit for sales and conversions is
assigned to touchpoints in conversion paths. It can be set based on your marketing strategy and user
behavior. For example, First interaction model assigns 100% value to the first touchpoint.
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Last Interaction
First Interaction
Linear
Time Decay
Position Based
Benchmarking is a tool which compares your site performance to your industry’s average. This insightful
tool helps you to set meaningful targets, gain insight into trends occurring across industry.
You can compare your data against benchmarks for the following metrics
Sessions
%New Sessions
Pages/Sessions
Bounce Rate
This is one of the most complex questions in Google analytics Question answer guide. What actually is
model comparison tool?
Attribution models are widely used to identify the right marketing channel and gives credit. But how do
you decide which attribution model would work for your business?
Model comparison tool helps to compare conversion metric by using different attribution modeling like
first interaction, last interaction, time decay and more. Model comparison tools helps you to compare
three attribution models with one another.
For example, you can compare how Twitter advertising works when you apply last clicks with linear and
time decay attribution.
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