From the course: Google Universal Analytics Essential Training (2020)

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Graph data over time in reports

Graph data over time in reports

- [Instructor] One feature that you're likely to see on almost every report on Google Analytics is the main data over time chart. This is the chart you'll see here where we've got data graphed over time, and this is great it gives us a 10,000 foot view but to really utilize it, we can configure it to show much more. For example, let's take a look at the audience report that shows website traffic by device category. This can be found under audience, then we'll scroll down to mobile, and we can look at the overview here. And this overview report can be useful to compare the traffic coming from mobile devices, desktop, and even tablets. I've adjusted the time period for this particular report up here in the top right corner. I'm also viewing this data in terms of days which I've set here, although I could set this in terms of weeks or even months. And if you see that I do that the visual representation of this here is gonna change quite drastically here. For now I'm gonna go with the…

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