Analytics

Your website: Google Analytics and Search Console

Visits, top pages, traffic sources and Google Search results for your website, beside the bookings and enquiries doTask records.

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Analytics

Analytics → Website shows your own website as Google sees it, for the dates on the date button and compared with the period you choose: visits from Google Analytics, how people find you on Google Search from Search Console, and the bookings and enquiries doTask recorded, by where each person came from.

  1. Settings → Google Analytics & Search Console → Turn on Google Analytics, and sign in with the Google account that can see your website’s Analytics. Google asks for read-only access to Google Analytics only.
  2. Pick your website’s Google Analytics 4 property.
  3. Turn on Search Console the same way (Google then asks for read-only access to Search Console only) and pick your site.
  4. Open Analytics → Website.
  • Visits (Google Analytics): sessions, users, new users, page views, key events and engagement rate, then channels, your top pages and your key events. Key events are the actions you marked in Google Analytics, such as a form sent.
  • Google Search (Search Console): clicks, impressions, click rate and average position (1 is the top), then the searches and pages that brought people. Search Console keeps 16 months; the last two days may still change. Google leaves out rare searches to protect people’s privacy.
  • Bookings and enquiries by source: enquiries are people who started a conversation, bookings are bookings made in the period, each counted by where doTask first saw the person arrive on your site (through the chat on your site). Beside them, Google Analytics’ sessions for a source of the same name. Google’s visits are anonymous, so they cannot be joined to a person: read the columns side by side, not as a rate. People who came by WhatsApp, Instagram, phone or walk-in are counted under No website visit recorded.
  • The figures come from Google when you open the page and are kept for 15 minutes (3 hours for periods that have ended), so reloading does not use up Google’s allowance. Google Analytics counts days in its property’s own time zone; the page says so when that differs from yours.

doTask only reads: it never changes anything in Google Analytics or Search Console. It keeps the property and site you picked, its Google sign-in (encrypted) and the figures it read, for minutes. Stop on either part forgets that choice and its figures. Disconnect deletes the sign-in, both choices and every figure kept; to remove doTask from your Google account as well, go to your Google account’s Security, then Third-party access. If the same Google account also connects Google Calendar, Google Ads or your Business Profile, doTask leaves Google’s access in place so those keep working.