Google Analytics, CSS, and HTML (IL5)

Google Analytics, CSS, and HTML

Google Analytics is a system in which one can gather information about who has been viewing their webpage. There are four main components of the Analytics system: data collection, configuration, data processing, and reporting. First, Google Analytics is able to collect user interaction data from websites, mobile apps, and other digitally connected sources. For the sake of this blog, we are just going to ellaborate off of websites. Google Analytics uses JavaScript code to collect information when a user views a page. This is known as a "hit". Once a "hit" has occurred, Google Analytics, the users collected data begins to be processed. This info is known as "raw data" and is processed into something that can be useful.After the users data has been processed, it is then configured, in which the data is can be filtered and stored into a database. Once stored in the database, the data cannot be changed. And finally, after the users data has been collected, processed, and configured, it is then reported. This data is then reported to the Google Analytics web interface in which the website designer can access the data related to the user who viewed the website.

CSS which stands for Cascading Style Sheets is the language used in computer programming that describes the appearance and formatting of your HTML. A style sheet is a file that describes how an HTML file should look and are said to be cascading because the sheets can apply formatting when more than one style applies. An example of CSS is shown below.