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Google Analytics hours of day

Here's a quick way to use Google Analytics to view your site's traffic by hours of day. Among other things, this can be useful when planning scheduled maintenance on a high-traffic website -- by checking traffic by hour, you can identify when your site experiences its lightest loads and plan accordingly (and, conversely, avoid the time with the heaviest loads!).

It's actually pretty simple to have Analytics display your traffic by hour, over any period of time:

Google Analytics hours of day

  1. Select Visitor Tracking | Visits from the menu on left
  2. On the right, locate and click the clock icon

That's it! As hinted above, it will display the traffic for the currently selected date range, so if you want to see if just for the past week, or just for yesterday, just play with the date range. This can be especially useful when performing a post-mortem on some event that occurred during a particular day, or range of days. Enjoy!

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V3EVGF64WN5GAWGVDPQVWJL72E Laura

    Hi,

    I wonder if anybody could help me? I have set up a custom report on Analytics to report on the hour of the day that people are visiting our site and set an advanced segment so it shows UK only; we now want to know if particular days have a trend in what time of the day they are visited i-e Tuesday visit times, wednesday visit times, thursday visit times etc – I can see how you would do this on the reporting system but the variables are blanked out so I cannot drag them – Is it possible to do? If so, Could somebody please help?

    Many Thanks,

    Laura

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V3EVGF64WN5GAWGVDPQVWJL72E Laura

    Hi,

    I wonder if anybody could help me? I have set up a custom report on Analytics to report on the hour of the day that people are visiting our site and set an advanced segment so it shows UK only; we now want to know if particular days have a trend in what time of the day they are visited i-e Tuesday visit times, wednesday visit times, thursday visit times etc – I can see how you would do this on the reporting system but the variables are blanked out so I cannot drag them – Is it possible to do? If so, Could somebody please help?

    Many Thanks,

    Laura

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