Google Analytics can track visitor demographics!

Yep, that’s gender, age & interests straight into your Analytics reports!

Screenshot of example demographics data

 Do it: Turn on Demographics tracking

Demographics tracking is not enabled by default, so you need to turn it on straight away.

I’ve put this lesson right here because data will only start gathering from when you “flick the switch”, so if you want to see some juicy numbers against your demographics categories, you need to turn it on right now to make use of it later.

 Bonus reading: More about how demographics are gathered and used

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