{"id":64,"date":"2017-04-26T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.analyticsbook.org\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2021-02-19T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:34:09","slug":"definitions-of-metrics-and-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.analyticsbook.org\/definitions-of-metrics-and-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitions of Analytics Metrics and Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google Analytics Reports consist of metrics and dimensions.<\/p>\n
Analytics Metrics are numbers that are used to measure characteristics of dimensions. For example, the characteristics of the Source \/ Medium dimension may include:<\/p>\n
Usually, metrics appear in reports as columns.<\/p>\n
We’ll go through the definitions of the basic analytics metrics including:<\/p>\n
A page view happens when a user visited one of the web pages on your website. When this user continue visiting a second web page of your website, then the page view count becomes 2. Your website’s total page views can be calculated by adding the page view count of all the users.<\/p>\n