WEBVTT 00:00.240 --> 00:05.210 The next plugin that I recommend installing is a Google Analytics plug in. 00:05.310 --> 00:11.880 And this is really a plug in that just allows you to easily and quickly see Google Analytics stats on 00:11.880 --> 00:16.330 the home page of your Wordpress when you sign in on your dashboard. 00:16.350 --> 00:22.800 So there are two that I recommend one is Google Analytics dashboard for WP for Wordpress and then the 00:22.830 --> 00:24.940 other is Google Analytics Hayter. 00:24.960 --> 00:30.050 This is the one that I've been using for a long time over at the time that I've had it installed. 00:30.090 --> 00:36.300 Other plug ins have popped up including this Google Analytics dashboard for W.P. that is a little bit 00:36.300 --> 00:40.440 cleaner but there are still some things that I like about Google Analytics Hayter. 00:40.470 --> 00:45.370 Once you install these what you're going to have to do is sign up for an analytics account. 00:45.430 --> 00:50.060 Let's go ahead and install Google Analytics dashboard for W.P.. 00:50.120 --> 00:57.290 Once I installed Google Analytics a new menu item pops up over on the left let's just go to the general 00:57.290 --> 00:58.920 settings to set it up. 00:58.970 --> 01:03.920 There's a really great set up to Tauriel video if you want to watch it that pops up over here on the 01:03.920 --> 01:04.580 right. 01:04.580 --> 01:07.300 Otherwise you can just click authorize plug in. 01:07.370 --> 01:10.520 It's going to ask you to provide your access code first. 01:10.520 --> 01:13.340 You're going to have to click get access code. 01:13.340 --> 01:18.890 This is going to take you to your Google account page where you're going to have to allow the analytics 01:18.890 --> 01:21.830 plug in access to your Google account. 01:21.830 --> 01:26.600 Once you have set that up it will take you to this page where you can copy and paste this code that 01:26.600 --> 01:31.700 it gives you into this access code area right here then click Save access code. 01:31.700 --> 01:38.510 Now it's going to bring up your option for any of your web sites that you have hooked up with Google 01:38.510 --> 01:43.580 Analytics which you're going to have to do right here you can see under select view that I have a number 01:43.580 --> 01:50.370 of Web sites and you tell me courses that I have hooked up and got an analytics for was Google Analytics. 01:50.390 --> 01:55.330 I'll just use my video school online stats and say save changes. 01:57.320 --> 02:04.960 Now let's go back to my dashboard here we're on our dashboard and we haven't really customized the dashboard 02:04.960 --> 02:05.720 before. 02:05.740 --> 02:11.390 But one thing that I can do is I'm going to get rid of this announcement when you sign up for Wordpress 02:11.440 --> 02:16.120 for the first time you get these next steps and actions kind of announcement I'm just going to dismiss 02:16.120 --> 02:16.450 that. 02:16.450 --> 02:21.670 Now we have all of these windows on our home page and down at the bottom we have this Google Analytics 02:21.670 --> 02:28.510 dashboard which I can click and drag and move up to the top in the left or right column really wherever 02:28.510 --> 02:29.140 you want it. 02:29.140 --> 02:32.800 And now this will show the analytics for your web site. 02:32.890 --> 02:36.640 In the past 30 days or you can select a different timeframe. 02:36.640 --> 02:43.150 Now I'm going to go over to my video school online.com dashboard so that you can see a comparison of 02:43.150 --> 02:49.900 the Google Analytics W.P. which is here on the left or the Google analytic cator plug in which is over 02:49.900 --> 02:51.060 here on the right. 02:51.070 --> 02:52.420 You see that is very similar. 02:52.420 --> 02:58.630 It has status from the past 30 days includes different things like the number of people who have visited 02:58.630 --> 02:59.130 your site. 02:59.140 --> 03:05.680 The page views the sessions the bounce rate different things on the left you have organic search how 03:05.680 --> 03:11.170 many people are coming actually from search rather than directly page load time session duration all 03:11.170 --> 03:15.030 kinds of different stats on the right with Google Analytics. 03:15.040 --> 03:20.020 The one thing that I wanted to mention about that plug in which I really like is it shows you your top 03:20.020 --> 03:21.060 five pages. 03:21.100 --> 03:25.230 So it's kind of cool that you can see which pages of yours get the most traffic. 03:25.240 --> 03:27.400 And then down below your top refers. 03:27.400 --> 03:34.000 So if people are coming from a specific site or Also what people are searching to get to your page which 03:34.110 --> 03:37.610 allots not provided you can see here 31000 visits. 03:37.690 --> 03:40.620 They don't show the search results. 03:40.660 --> 03:45.340 That's because of the settings with their search browser and all kinds of things that doesn't allow 03:45.550 --> 03:49.860 Google Analytics to actually share that data with other people it's a privacy thing. 03:49.870 --> 03:55.870 But you can see that some people search for videos online school video and you can dive more into this 03:55.960 --> 03:59.550 in your Google Analytics which is a whole different topic. 03:59.560 --> 04:05.040 But if you want to just see a snapshot of the stats this is a great place to do it. 04:05.050 --> 04:10.720 And one thing that I like to do with these stats is just look at a little bit of a longer timeframe 04:10.840 --> 04:13.310 to see if your Web site is growing. 04:13.330 --> 04:19.360 You can see with the Google Analytics you could only it's shoes past 30 days past 60 days or yesterday 04:19.480 --> 04:25.100 with the Google Analytics dashboard for WP You can choose even up to a year. 04:26.680 --> 04:28.420 And I like the look of these stats. 04:28.420 --> 04:34.150 Now this isn't her my Ebner designs this is for videos go online but you can see that the monthly page 04:34.240 --> 04:37.290 sessions is increasing over the past year. 04:37.300 --> 04:40.370 And this is what you want to see when you are starting a Web site. 04:40.390 --> 04:48.890 If I go even longer two three years you can see the growth of my entire Web site starting where I was 04:48.890 --> 04:54.860 barely getting a thousand page views back in 2014 per month to this past month where you can see over 04:54.870 --> 04:57.710 36000 sessions to my Web site. 04:57.710 --> 05:01.730 So those are the two plug ins remember that you're going to have to set up Google Analytics. 05:01.790 --> 05:06.650 If you haven't done so already and if you have any other questions please feel free to let me know.