Usage monitoring overview
Monitoring the usage of reports has several benefits. Knowing how various reports and dashboards are being used helps in both demonstrating your impact and prioritizing your efforts. Even if Looker Studio makes it very easy to create reports, it takes a decent amount of effort and time to build a well-thought-out and properly designed dashboard. You want to invest your efforts where the users will find the results to be most beneficial. Analyzing user traffic data and patterns also helps you identify potential usability issues. Then, you can optimize your reports appropriately to increase their utility. For example, a low engagement rate may indicate that many users do not find the dashboard very useful or find it hard to understand.
Tracking report usage enables you to get answers to questions such as the following:
- How many users are viewing the dashboards?
- How long are they spending on different dashboards?
- How often are they visiting...
