How To View Hourly Web Traffic With Google Analytics

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Are you trying to find out what time of day you get the most traffic to your website? Is it Thursdays at lunch time or Saturdays after 4pm? In this quick tutorial I’ll show you how to view your hourly traffic using Google Analytics.

I became interested in hourly stats as of recently when I posted the question When is the best time to post to my blog? For Traffic?. I was curious to see what time of day I could garner the most traffic. As I recently started automatically submitting my rss feed to a number of social networks I thought the next step would be the best time of day to post.

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In Google Analytics select the, “Visitors”, tab. Under Visitors select Visitor Trending > Visits. Then over to the right select hour in the Graph By options. You can also choose to view traffic by daily, weekly or monthly here.

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About Me: Nate Balcom is a web designer and social media guru with over 11 years of experience in the web industry. He specializes in web design and development, SEO and social networking. You can follow him on Twitter here.