How to setup your dashboard

1. Prerequisites

If you want the full power of the reporting you’ll also need:

• Demographic data turned on in your Google Analytics 4 account (use Google Signals)
• To be tracking events and conversions in Google Analytics

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2. Make A Copy And Add Google Analytics Data

Now you’ve got all of these sorted, it’s time to connect your Analytics account to the data studio template.

1. Make a copy of the Template
2. Hit the dropdown menu for the first box, click ‘Create Data Source’
3. Give Data Studios access to your data
4. Go to the Google Analytics row
5. Pick your GA4 Account & Property
6. Hit connect (top right)
7. Wait a couple of seconds for ‘Using Owners Credentials’ to Disappear
8. Then click add to report (top right)

Using the dashboard

The report’s actually incredibly easy to use. We’ve added country and page path filters at the top of the report.

Clicking these allows you to change the data of the report, allowing for a more in-depth analysis of your data.

Note: You may have metrics that you wish to report on that aren’t included in this template, or you’re looking for something that focuses on a different channel.

Pro tip: For the Page Path and Country filters, click the “only” button to save de-selecting every option.

What does the dashboard tell me?

The Dashboard gives you a top level understanding of the visitors to your site, and how this has changed over time. Its ideal for 

• How many people have visited my site?
• What channels are driving the most traffic?
• Where are people accessing my site from across the country/world?
• What pages are performing the best?
• Which events are most popular on-site?
• When people visit the site, what device are they using?
  
  
  
  

Note: In the template, we’ve used Welly Kai for the Google Analytics 4 data. This is a website that helps you find over 130 local businesses delivering a range of tasty noms in Poneke (Wellington). It was created by our Aro Digital co-founder, Tim Dorrian.

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