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First month to report10/1/2023This is auto-generated to always be 12 months ago, don't change it
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First month of complete dataJanuary 2019
Enter the month following the day you implemented the custom dimension (if you started gathering dimension data on 4/15/2020, you'd enter 5/1/2020)
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View ID90219011This is the ID of your view in Google Analytics
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Dimension number3
This is the number of the 30-day reading custom dimension (find it in your Google Analytics admin)
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How to use this report
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To use this report, you'll need to set up a custom dimension to track reading frequency. Sadly, that's not a trivial task, but...
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...we've thoroughly documented how you'd do it, from concepts to code, in this document!
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And after you've implemented the dimension, you'll need to wait until the beginning of the following month for this to work.
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1. Make a copy of this spreadsheet.
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2. Get the Google Analytics Spreadsheet Add-on.
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3. Update the First month of complete data, view ID, and dimension number, highlighted in yellow above.
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4. Click Add-ons > Google Analytics > Run reports
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5. You will be prompted re: Google Analytics permissions, grant them.
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6. Done!
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7. To automate this report, click Add-ons > Google Analytics > Schedule reports. (Suggestion: every Monday morning.)
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8. It's a little thing, but once you've got this running, I'd move the "Config" tab all the way to the right. It's ugly.
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For more information on reading this report, etc., please see the accompanying documentation.
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Memberkit 1.0
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Copyright 2020, WHYY and Colorado Public Radio.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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