Creating Advanced Segment For a Geographical Region With Google Analytics

Google Analytics is one of the most powerful and free4) A new drop down will be displayed with several
web analytics tool available and is much better thanmetrics. Drag the metric named "City" to the box
many other free web analytics softwares available.named "dimension or metric" on the centre of the
Google analytics is not a hosted web analytics tool, butpage.
is just a compatible javascript code which needs to be5) Make the "Condition" as "Matches exactly".
included between the tag of an HTML page.6) Type or select the city name "Kuala Lumpur" from
Google Analytics is so flexible and user friendly Internetthe drop down menu.
analytics tool and comes with a variety of customized7) Name the Segment as "Visits from Kuala Lumpur".
report options. In this post I would like to write about8) Finally click the "Create Segment" button.
how to create an Advanced Segment for a particularNow you have successfully set up Advanced
geographical region with Google website analytics tool.Segment for the geographic location "Kuala Lumpur".
Consider that you have a website and have installedTo see the segmented report go to "Content" and
Google Analytics code to track the traffic details. Youclick on the "Top Content" link. Now you can see a
need to know the top landing pages or top contentsection named "Advanced Segments: All Visits" above
from the city "Kuala Lumpur". In this case you can takethe top right of the graph. Click on the down arrow
the advantages of advanced segments in Googleand check the box corresponding to "Visits from Kuala
Analytics. The steps for setting up an advancedLumpur" in Custom Segments and click on the Apply
segment for a particular geographical region in thisbutton.
cases is given below.Now the Google Analytics Graph will show the overall
1) On your Google Analytics Dashboard there is a linkvisits in blue and the "Visits from Kuala Lumpur" in
named "Advanced Segments" in a box named "Myorange. The statistical table below now shows Page
Customizations" on the left hand side. Click on the linkviews for each page containing All Visits and "Visits
named "Advanced Segments".from Kuala Lumpur". This type of segmentation would
2) After step 1 you will be taken to a new page andhelp you in effectively analyzing your traffic to your
click on the link named "Create new custom segment"pages from a particular geographical location. Hope
on the top right.you will find it interesting and don't forget to try this out
3) You can see a box named "Dimensions" on the lefton your Analytics account.
with several links. Click on the link named "Visitors".