We already know that Google Analytics is able to get complete details of user interactions for your website. It provides you with a lot of information regarding visitors, which you are very much required to improve your website’s performance.
Sometimes you may have to share analytics data with your visitors, team members, potential business partners. However, you may have to give them login details to access your analytics account. Which are probably unsafe from safety vision?
In this article, we will teach you how to export data from Google Analytics. This helps you to share analytics reports without giving permission to your Google Analytics account.
So let’s go ahead and know why analytics data is necessary for you.
Why Export data form Google Analytics
There are many important reasons instead of one, you may have to share analytics reports and data with people. However, here we have identified some situations, where you may have to share your Google Analytics report.
So let’s have a look at those situations:
- For visitors: If you have a website on which there are friendly-relations between you and your visitors. So you can easily share Google Analytics reports by keeping them up to date on your site’s performance.
- Partnering with another website: If you want to partner with other websites to work together, it is very important for each other to know website statistics. In this case, providing Google Analytics reports is more secure than sharing analytics account details.
- In selling the website: Website buyers determine the price of your website after viewing analytics reports. in this situation, sharing analytics reports is very simple and secure for you.
- For team members updations: These methods are absolutely accurate and secure for sharing website analytics with team members and organizations.
In addition, there are many more points for which you may have to export and share your website’s analytics reports. But we are unable to tell all the points in this single article.
Export Analytics Data in WordPress
If you want to export analytics data for a WordPress website, you can do it very easily. Firstly, you’ll need to install MonsterInsights as a Google Analytics plugin. For more details see our step-step guide on how to install a plugin in WordPress.
The special thing about using MonsterInsights is that it comes with a Google Analytics dashboard for your WordPress. Which shows you actionable analytics reports right inside your WordPress dashboard.
In addition, you can customize it so that it only shows you the reports that matter to you. See our article on how to connect MonsterInsights with Google Analytics.
To export your analytics report, you’ll need to visit the Insights » Reports menu from your WordPress dashboard. Here, you’ll see overview reports.
On this screen you find the Export PDF Report button, simply click on the button and get a properly pdf report to share with others.
Share Analytics Report in Email
Sometimes due to excessive busyness, you forget to share the performance reports of your website with the client or team member. With MonsterInsights, you can share website statistics directly in the inbox of your customers and team members.
It automatically shares analytics reports via email. Here you can add 5 email addresses to send weekly summary. In addition, you can customize the header with your brand logo.
To set up email summaries in WordPress, go to your WordPress dashboard and then navigate to Insights » Setting » Advanced. Now scroll on Email summaries.
After doing this, you are able to send analytics reports to 5 email addresses that you often forget to report on time.
Furthermore, you can also export report data to other format directly from Google Analytics.
Export Report in Other Formats in Google Analytics
If you are using WordPress or other website, then report data may also be required in other formats. Which isn’t possible to achieve with MonsterInsights.
In Google Analytics, you can export data in the form of Google Sheets, Excel files and CSV format. These data can also be formatted and edited according to your needs.
To do this, you’ll need to log in to your Google Analytics Account. Now, you have to navigate to the report for which you want to export the data. There will be an export option for almost every report in Google Analytics.
Now, click on the export option and select the formats in which you need the data.
Next, it will automatically download report data onto your computer. After this, you can share these data with your customers and partners by email or other ways.
Share GA Report to Inbox without Export Data
Are you wondering how to share report data without exporting Google Analytics data? So you don’t need to worry, you can do this with your Google Analytics account.
To do this, you access your Google Analytics account and open the report you want to share. As for sharing active users Google Analytics reports, navigate to Audience » Active Users. Then click on to Share button on the right corner on the screen.
After clicking on it, an email report popup will open. Where you need to enter the email address of the person to whom you want to send the report. Google Analytics also gives you the option to select the file format. These formats include PDF, Excel (XLSX), CSV.
After entering the details, click on the Send button. Now, you’ve successfully shared the active user report.
Conclusion
If you want to export a specific report, then Google Analytics gives you the option to select multiple formats. You use the export option at the top right corner of the report in Google Analytics.
In addition, if you have a WordPress site, you can easily export data as a PDF file by using MonsterInsights. The main thing about using MonsterInsights is that you can set a schedule (daily, weekly, and monthly).
I hope this article helped you to learn how to export data from Google Analytics in this article. You can also see the article related to how to do event tracking in Google Analytics.
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