1. How to use

2. What is Google Analytics?
Sheffield Hallam has a staff account for Google analytics which contains the analytics for all WordPress sites at the university.

3. Google Analytics permissions
To access google analytics first you need to get the right permissions from IT. If you request IT to add you / other team members to the SLS Blogs sites within Google analytics.

4. How do I access Google Analytics
First of all make sure you are logged into your Google drive account.
Head to google analytics via
Google or by going to

5. Accessing your sites stats
Go to Behaviour > Site Content > Content Drilldown
Find your site

6. Changing the date range
On the top of the content drilldown pages there is the option to select the date. You can choose the range of days you would like to view stats for.

7. Understanding data
You can now compare the popularity of pages, views, time on pages, bounce rate and %exit.

8. Finding out more
Google Analytics is easy to use however if you wanted to find out more about how to analyse the data there are plenty of tutorials on Lynda.com or YouTube.

9. To find out more visit the LSSS tech website