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Does everyone who comes to your site complete the sale on the first visit? Look at the Google Analytics Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels report. Is “1” the only path length shown? If your answered "no" to either of these questions, then you need to know about Google Analytics attribution models.
Dashboards provide an efficient way to review your Google Analytics data. By combining relevant data into a dashboard, you can quickly and easily make determinations about your website's performance.
For traffic types other than Direct and Organic, Google Analytics lets you track visitors to your website using Custom Campaign URL Tagging, a feature that enables you to add custom parameters to URLs used in web-based or email ad campaigns.
The Audience section of the Google Analytics dashboard contains metrics that can help you track website traffic, see the number of pages viewed, and estimate audience interest in your content.