: Detecting when you are going to reach your hit limit for Google Analytics free account I am a user of a free Google Analytics account and i'm slightly concerned that I may be approaching the

@Gloria169

Create a custom report==>select metric hits==>and any dimension I took user type and you will get a number of hits.

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@Nimeshi995

What you might want to do is use the GA Core Reporting API to extract these numbers automatically. It's not very easy to build the queries manually, so I use the Google Analytics Query Explorer 2.

I think you need the metrics you need are the metrics: ga:pageviews,ga:visits

You can find a go reference implementation for pulling the data from Google Analytics on Google Code, links can be found it the GA CR API

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@Debbie626

In Google Analytics, you can specify the dates you would like to see information for. It should be in the top right corner of your dashboard.

Then, under Standard Reports, the Audience Overview link should take you to see the amount of visitors that have seen your site within that time frame.

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@Tiffany637

As mentioned in the comments, surely

number of page views + number of events


Please can you explain what you find lacking in that logic? Also

If you go over this limit, the Google Analytics team might contact you


might contact you, it doesn't say that is is a hard and fast limit; Also it is very likely that it is based on an average of a few months, for example years ago when the limit was 5M a month, I had a site hit 6M and not get contacted, it just had an unusual peak here and there because of digg traffic

If I were you I would do a total for 2013 and work out the average PV + Events per day, and times by 30 and go off that figure. If that figure is knocking on 10M then it will likely be time to come up with a plan b!

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