Goal Completions

Date created: Oct 12, 2022  •   Last updated: Oct 12, 2022

What is Goal Completions

A Goal represents a completed activity that you have defined as important to the success of your website or business. Goals can capture a number of completed actions, such as completing a form, downloading a brochure, or making a purchase. Goals and in particular Goal Conversion Rate are vital in measuring the effectiveness of your website and business objectives.

Goal Completions Formula

ƒ Count(Goal Completions)

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How to visualize Goal Completions?

Use a summary chart to visualize your Goal Completions data and compare it to a previous time period.

Goal Completions visualization example

Goal Completions

984

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43.35

vs previous period

Summary Chart

Here's an example of how to visualize your current Goal Completions data in comparison to a previous time period or date range.
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Goal Completions

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Measuring Goal Completions

More about Goal Completions

When using Goals with Google Analytics, Goals can be categorized into four types:

Destination Goals: When a specific location loads.

Duration Goals: When a session lasts longer than a specified amount of time.

Pages/Screens per Session Goals: When a user views a number of pages or screens.

Event Goals: When a defined action, an Event, is triggered. An Event will be counted as a Goal only once per session even if it was triggered multiple times.

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Here is Google Analytics explaining what Goals are and how to use them.

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