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The SDP www.vic.gov.au dashboard is used This guide covers the key metrics you can access on the GA4 dashboard. Use the dashboard to monitor the performance of key metrics for the pages on vic.gov.au website.
This guide will focus on how to navigate the dashboard and what elements you need to know about.
We also have other guides for each specific page of the dashboard, linked in the Related Guides section. .
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Accessing the dashboard
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Anyone who clicks on the link to the dashboard should be able to access it.
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If you’ve been emailed a report and cannot view it, reach out to the Analytics team (analytics.team@dpc.vic.gov.au) or your team members to be granted access.
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Explore each dashboard page in detail
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How to access the dashboard
Our dashboard is public and can be accessed without an account or permissions.
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Dashboard elements
Once you click the dashboard linkGoogle Analytics dashboards.
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Dashboard landing page
Once the dashboard is open, you should see the below Overview page:
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This dashboard has the following elements.
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page includes the following metrics:
Total Sessions
Sessions by Day
Engagement Rate
Sessions with search
New vs Returning users
Devices by engaged sessions
Social network engaged sessions
Feedback on what this page helpful (Note: there is a current issue with this data which is pending a fix)
Top 5 pages
Top 5 referral sources
Top 5 search terms across Google
Top 5 grants, publications and news items
Top 5 downloads
Sessions broken down by weekly comparison and daily comparison
Navigating the dashboard
The dashboard has 9 11 different pages, which can be found in the left-hand column. Click on You can select the arrow at below the bottom menu to expand this section to see the page names, or to collapse this section and see page numbers insteadthe dashboard pages section.
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Date range
Click on Select the drop-down against the date picker to choose a specific set of dates, or select from preset options such as the one of the following date options:
manually populate a specific Start Date and End Date
the Fixed list of options, for example last 14 days, last
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30 days, today or yesterday.
Changing the date range is temporary and can be updated at any time.
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Filters
Filters refine or reduce the data that is displayed, so you can view only the data that is relevant to you. Clicking on a filter will reveal a drop-down list with options to select or deselect.
For example: On the “Overview” page, there There are 4 filters that can be used:
Site section: Filter to a specific site section of vic.gov.au.
Page title: Filter filter by the title of a page, which matches what shows in Google Searchsearch.
Site section: filter to a specific site section of http://vic.gov.au .
Department/entity: Filter filter by the department or entity that owns the content.
Content typeDevice Category: Filter filter by the type of content, for example: landing page, publication or grant.
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device type
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In this example, choosing “grants” Grants in the site section filter options will limit the data displayed to only content tagged to that specific site section.
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Once you’ve finished with a specific filter, click on the – sign next to the filter name to reset it. You You can also click the Reset button in the top-right corner of the dashboard to reset all data to the default options again.
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Sharing options
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You can select the Share option to:
invite people to view the dashboard
schedule an email delivery for the dashboard
get a shareable link to the report
download the report.
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Invite people
This option will let you share the dashboard with others by sending them an email with the link to it.
You can choose the type of access they need as well: either Viewer or Editor.
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Schedule email delivery
You can use this option to email yourself and/or others a regular report of the data. You can customise the pages to be included, the date and time and how frequently it gets sent.
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You can also add filters to the report, if you want to only send the delivery with specific filters applied
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Get report link
This option will give you a link to the dashboard that you can copy and paste to share with others.
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Download report
This option allows you to download the report as a PDF file.
You can choose to download all pages or customise your page selection. If sensitive information is included in the report, you can choose the option to make the file password protected.
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Support
If you have any questions about the dashboard, please email the Analytics Team on analytics.team@dpc.vic.gov.aulog an SDP support ticket.
Related guides
You can also read our guides that go into more detail on each specific dashboard page:
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How to use the overview page: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard
How to use pages and downloads: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard
How to use feedback: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard
How to use form submissions: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard
How to use the grants, publications and news page: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard
How to use the content design page: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard
How to use the audience, software and technology page: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard
How to use campaigns and referrals: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard
How to use the search page: vic.gov.au Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard