Google Analytics: Dashboard to show popular content per directory

[Bee159]

Hello, I work for a furniture business and I would like to set up a dashboard in Google Analytics to show a table for each of the 10 sections to show the most popular content, ie.

/Sofas
/Sofas/black-leather-sofa | 987 PVs
/Sofas/brown-leather-sofa | 782 PVs
/Sofas/classic-material-sofa | 636 PVs
etc.

/Beds
/Beds/king-size-bed | 900 PVs
etc

How would I go about doing this?

Thank you

[TomRayner]

Hi there

In your dashboard, click "Add Widget".  In this case, I think selecting a "table" widget would be best.

For the dimension, search for the "page" dimension.  There's lots in there, but you just want to select "page" by itself in this case.  For the two metrics, you can add "pageviews" and another one - maybe "avg time on page" or "% of new sessions".  Whatever you think is most useful.

The most important step is setting up the filter.  Click "add a filter" and then select "only show".  In this case, you will want to only show "page" containing "/Sofas/", "/Beds/" etc. (minus the quotations of course).

You'll end up with something like this: http://i.imgur.com/0bPFfwL.png

Give the widget a title for reference, such as "Most popular Sofa Pages" and then click save.

You should end up with a report like: http://i.imgur.com/dFUHl0z.png

To rinse and repeat, all you need to do is go to the widget, click the edit icon, and then at the bottom of the popup will be a "clone widget" option.  Do that, adjust the filter for each category you have, and you're done!

Hope this helps.

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