How would I create this type of report in Google Analytics?
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I work for an e-commerce site. I would like to run a weekly report to see what every category pages increase and decrease for pageviews would be. How would I do that?
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Some customization is going to happen. But regex can come to the rescue. Try: .(/bats/|/monkeys/|/puppies/). where bats, monkeys and puppies are your categories.
The (parenthesis) is a grouping of folders. The | says 'or'. The .* on either side just says just says match anything. If you only want the categories without the pages, just remove the last .* from the expressions.
http://www.url.com/category/bob
http://www.url.com/category/steve
/category/
/nachos//category/9
/category/!category
http://www.url.com/monkeys/spider-monkey
http://www.url.com/puppies/ugly-puppies
http://www.url.com/bats/bat-manI once had to match every possible misspelling of 'warrior'. My eyes started bleeding, but I got the majority of it.
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Although I ended up going through customization having these widgets on my dashboard for my top categories still seems like a great idea. Thank You
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I ended up going through customization and can find the data I wanted but I can't figure out how to compare months automatically. Ideally I would like to send a report out the first of every month that shows the increase or decrease in pageviews from the previous month.
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I made a couple of dashboard widgets. You will need to edit the Includes filters to the proper category page or pages. If you have a folder level called /category/, you'll likely only need one Includes filter.
If the dashboard is too difficult/broken, you can follow the path Martijn suggested. However you'll need to change the date range to Last week and compare to previous period. Change the Primary Dimension to Page and the secondary to Week Index. After that, you'll have to click Advanced and set includes for Page containing your category.
If it's looking good to you, click shortcut. Then click email and the rest should be pretty intuitive.
If you need to filter via regex, a simple example would be: ./category/.
That will match any page with category as a folder. Try out regexpal. You can get started with the above regex and see how these inputs match (highlight) or don't (no highlight).
http://www.url.com/category/bob
http://www.url.com/category/steve
/category/
/nachos//category/9
/category/!category
Have fun! And if anything is broken, well... it's late.
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Hi,
You probably can do this by going to Behaviour > Site Content > Content Drilldown. This should display all the categories on your site probably. By creating the report based on this you get the opportunity to receive a weekly report with all the default metrics you see in there.
Good luck!
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