Can’t See Weighted Sort in Google Analytics Yet?
Weighted sort was released quite some time ago now, in fact just over a month ago and I’ve been foolishly weighting to see it on my Google Analytics, but unfortunately it just didn’t appear. The same can be said for my colleagues – none of them have noticed it either, but it turns out it is there, hiding, so if you haven’t seen weighted sort yet follow my simple guide:
- Login to your Google Analytics account
- Go to any report where it has a % metric (e.g. bounce rate, conversion rate etc.)
- Order the report by a % metric – bounce rate is an easy one.
- Once you order it by bounce rate/conversion rate a tick box should show with the title “weighted sort”.
- Your report will be re-ordered to take into account the number of visits
Basically weighted sort saves you having to exclude all the visits that are less than 10 when looking at bounce rate/conversion rate as a metric. It’s very handy and certainly saves a lot of time. You can see a demo of weighted sort being used in the video below:
8 Comments
Dirk
Strange, I can see weighted sort when I sort by %Exit, but not when I sort by Bounce Rate…
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Roger Bert
Might be worth doing a more detailed post on this. Not 100% sure how to make use of Weighted Sort
David W
Try going into your analytics to find the top converting keyword, you will notice some have a conversion rate of 100% but with only one visit – not that useful or actionable. Now click weighted sort and you’ll get more useful information.
Adam Tudor - http://www.adamtudor.com
This only appears on specific reports as I remember Dave, not on all. It won’t appear on any content reports, is mainly used on keyword and referrer reports.
Not idea why they can’t implement it on all reports, saves us having to do Excel exports to apply weighting sorts.
Roger Bert
Thanks David. Will spend some time on this.
Roderick - Google SEO Expert Philippines - http://seo-expert-for-hire.blogspot.com/
Great post and thanks for the video tutorial. I didn’t know about this Weighted Sort thingie.
Time to explore me GA dashboard.
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