2021 Week 15 | Tableau: Website Analytics

Introduction

Lately I’ve been working with Google Analytics data, so I thought I’d pass on a data set to you!  Our data set was created by you the audience – it’s extracted directly from our website analytics.

This week’s challenge focuses on a lot of little things coming together – dashboard design, formatting, and reference lines.  The big “aha” moment for me in this challenge is working with duration/time in the format of minutes and seconds, most specifically getting the reference lines to display.

Requirements

  • Dashboard Size: 1300px by 1000px
  • # of Sheets – up to you
  • Create 4 Metrics with Trend lines
    • Total Sessions
      • Trend weekly, with a weekly average reference line
    • Average Session Duration (Session Duration/Sessions)
      • Trend weekly, with an overall (aggregate) reference line, this must be formatted in minutes and seconds
    • Bounce Rate (Bounces/Sessions)
      • Trend weekly, with an overall (total) reference line
    • Average Time on Page (Time on Page/(Pageviews – Exits))
      • Trend weekly, with an overall (aggregate) reference line, this must be formatted in minutes and seconds
    • Colors
      • Purple: #7830b6
      • Green: #72b966
      • Yellow: #f7cc63
      • Darker Blue: #628cb9
      • Lighter Blue: #58b8ba

FYI: Since this is a static data set, I’ve filtered it to 12/29/2019 to 4/10/2021

Dataset

This week uses an export from Google Analytics. You can get it here at data.world

You can see full definitions of data set attributes in the GA Dimensions & Metrics Explorer

Attribute

When you publish your solution on Tableau Public make sure to take the time and include a link to the original inspiration.  Also include the hashtag #WOW2021 in your description to make it searchable!

Share

After you finish your workout, share on Twitter using the hashtag #WOW2021 and tag @AnnUJackson, @ItsCandraM, @LukeStanke, @_Lorna_Brown and @HipsterVizNinja

Solution

Interactive

3 thoughts on “2021 Week 15 | Tableau: Website Analytics”

  1. @AnnUJackson Not quite sure why my previous comment got deleted, but your maketime formulas still contain an error.

    Maketime(avgseconds/3600, avgseconds/60, avgseconds%60) would make the hours count double if the dureation is longer than 3600 seconds. Not an issue in your dataset as the outcome is well below 3600 seconds, but as a concept of how to do calculations with time, this is an issue.

    To fix this, you can remove the avgseconds/3600 component, or, or you wish to use the formula in that format, you could do Maketime(avgseconds/3600, (avgseconds%3600)/60, avgseconds%60).

    Actually maketime(avgseconds) would also work fine.

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