: Has Google stopped offering it's "Weighted" Analytics sorting filter? I am trying to better evaluate my user's engagement and came across a feature of Google Analytics that I didn't know about,
I am trying to better evaluate my user's engagement and came across a feature of Google Analytics that I didn't know about, Weighted Sort. This is supposed to sort by bounce rate and also time on page, however it appears unselectable in my GA account . Can anyone verify that it is no longer offered? Or do I need to configure it somewhere else? I couldn't find any reference online to this feature being disabled in the new version of Analytics
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You need to create a custom report firstly with less columns and have pageviews column next to bounce rate column.
You need to sort the data by Bounce rate to enable the greyed out "Wighted sort"
By default it is sorted by pageviews.
Weighted sort is intended to filter outlier data from the grid view - for example, if you had the following pages (sorted by Bounce Rate) it's obvious that you'll want to pay more attention to items #3 and #5 over the others, even though a descending bounce rate sort would place the low-traffic pages at the top:
# URI Hits Bounce Rate
1 /example-abc/ 3 100%
2 /example/ 1 100%
3 /popular/ 1000 99.98%
4 /contact/ 9 52%
5 /semi-popular/ 552 40%
From the Weighted Sort documentation at Google Analytics Help:
With weighted sort, our system takes into account the number of
visits, bringing [rows] with more visits to the top of the list.
With the Bounce Rate column selected, you can switch to Weighted Sort to get a list more like this:
# URI Hits Bounce Rate
1 /popular/ 1000 99.98%
2 /semi-popular/ 552 40%
3 /contact/ 9 52%
4 /example-abc/ 3 100%
5 /example/ 1 100%
Update: ... and, although it's not listed at Google's help center, you will also need to disable any Advanced Segments you may be using to filter data in order to enable this feature.
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