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What is an account in Google Analytics?

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Published on Jan 20, 2023 and edited on May 4, 2023 by Iron Brands

In Google Analytics, your account is a top-level container that holds all the data and settings for your website or web application. It can contain multiple properties. These are sub-containers, holding the data and settings for specific sections or subdomains of your website or web application. Each property can have various views and sub-containers that allow you to configure and access different data sets and reports for a particular property.

You can use your account in Google Analytics to organize and manage data and settings for a website or web application. You then get a high-level overview of the data and reports for your website or web application, allowing you to access the data and settings for specific properties and views within the account.

To create an account in Google Analytics, you must first sign up for a Google account and visit the Google Analytics website. From there, you can create a Google Analytics account. Once you have created your account, you can add properties and views to your account to track different sections or subdomains of the website or web application. You can access the data and reports for your website through the Google Analytics interface.

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