: Google Analytics Dashboard: week-by-week view Setting up Google Analytics Dashboard allows webmasters to get a weekly progress report of marketing achievements & keep a finger on what's going

@Bryan171

Couple of years later I'm facing the same issue.
My solution is to change the type to BAR graph and group the date by "Week of the year". Make sure to sort the graph by "Week of the year" by clicking the little arrow next to it while editing.
Hope that helps.

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@BetL925

Google Analytics allows dates to be bookmarked, however it does not allow relative dates into the URL. So when you bookmark a GA URL, the dates in that URL are frozen in time and never update as new data comes in. To work around this, you need software that updates the dates dynamically.

I created a page on ostermiller.org that allows me to see a wide variety of views into my Google Analytics account with dynamic relative dates.

To use this page:


Find your Google Analytics Report ID in the URL when you are looking at a graph on your Google Analytics. It will have a format like a00000000w00000000p00000000
Copy and paste this ID into the "Google Analytics report ID" box.
Use the Set button to set the report ID.
Now you will see lots of links such as "4 Weeks by Day" and "6 Months by Week".
Before you click on the links, bookmark the page on ostermiller.org that now has #gaid = in the URL.
Use this bookmark to access your Google Analytics account -- the links will automatically update with new dates in the URL.


It is also possible to create bookmarklet (javascript powered bookmark) to take you to the view that you want in one click. See: Changing default date range in Google Analyics? and Google Analytics Kiosk: URL that compares current month to last, and is permalink

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@Ogunnowo487

I had the same question a while back and also couldn't find a solid answer anywhere. However, I did something that seemed to please my clients that I believe should get you the results you're looking for. I'll explain my solution, and maybe you find it beneficial.

My clients wanted weekly Google Analytics reports with a monthly view of data, and I needed the emails to be automated because I'm too busy to continually pull reports for 30 clients. But, when you set dashboard emails to send weekly, Analytics will only display data for the past 7 days. To solve this problem, I scheduled four separate dashboard emails containing the exact same information to be sent on a monthly frequency on the 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd of each month. When the client receives emails on those dates, they contain a month view because they were scheduled as "monthly" emails, even though they receive the emails approximately every 7 days.

I hope that helps you solve your problem. I may come back and try to edit this for clarity at a later point.

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