Google Apps: Track Gmail usage with Google Analytics
An addition to Google Docs and Google Sites, Google Apps’s Premier and
Education customers can start tracking the Gmail usage in the organization using Google Analytics.
Just like usual Analytics, implementing this feature will allow administrator to view the statistic such as users’ locations, languages, length of visit, etc.
Please note that, Google Apps’s Standard edition customer as well as normal Gmail users doesn’t have this feature.
If you new to Google Apps, this is how to set it up, or read more here.
- Log in to the Google Apps admin control panel at https://www.google.com/a/your_domain.com.
- Click Advanced tools along the blue navigation bar.
- Next to Reporting, click Set up Google Analytics. If you haven’t yet created an account for Google Analytics, click Learn more in the New to Analytics? section. You can enter your domain name as the primary URL for your Google Analytics account.
- In the text field for Web Property ID, enter your Google Analytics Web Property ID. The format of the Web Property ID is like this: UA-10876-1. If you aren’t sure how to locate the Web Property ID in your Google Analytics account, click here.
- Click Save changes. It takes up to 24 hours to start tracking your domain. In Google Analytics, the status will read ‘tracking not installed’ for up to 24 hours.
The useful thing - monitoring of employees’ accounts. Often working hours is used in the personal purposes…
Have you actually seen Gmail stats in your Analytics. I see Sites and Docs in mine, but no Gmail.
@Tim Laughlin - This is for Google Apps. Although there is Analytic available for Gmail, but it still no available on my Gmail Lab too.
@Admin, thanks for the response. I did mean in GMail for Domains. I see all the other traffic like docs and sites, but nothing for mail accounts for that domain.