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: Using Google Analytics to establish busiest time of day I am trying to find a way to establish my sites busiest hour, but when using the "hour of the day" metric, each seems to have a date

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I am trying to find a way to establish my sites busiest hour, but when using the "hour of the day" metric, each seems to have a date specific code, rather than just a number from 0-23, as I would expect.

Any ideas how to obtain this info, or if I should be using a different service?

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@Pierce454

The graph by hour option seems to be gone to be back again. You can also create a custom report that looks something like the "rush hour" reports in AWStats. Google Analytics Day of Week and Hour of Day Reports discusses the report in detail. Short summary:


Create a new custom report
In the first tab, choose "Flat Report" layout
Add the dimension "Hour" and metric "Visits"
Add additional metrics (optional)
Save and preview

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@Jessie594

When viewing your website data, choose Visitors > Visitor Trending > Visits from the Analytics left-hand sidebar menu:


Select the date range you're interested in, and then click the clock to the right of "Graph by" in the top right of your screen:




You'll see a graph and bar chart showing visits by time for the date range you selected:



It's important to note that the times in the left column are in whatever timezone you set up for the site when you first created it in Analytics. Check the timezone in the site profile here:


Click the "Analytics Settings" link in the top left of your screen:


Click the 'Edit' link to the right of the site you're interested in:


The timezone for that website appears under "Main Website Profile Information". Click the "Edit" link to change it:

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