Google Analytics Client Access Account Set-up

This is a brief tutorial on quickly creating and setting up a Google Analytics User Account.

Once you tagged your client's website with Google Analytics and are collecting data, you want to grant access to your clients or office staff to view web traffic data. Granting access to a user to view web analytics in Google Analytics is a fairly simple process. The main specification to keep in mind is granting access to viewing data but not have administrative rights (so they cannot change or delete settings or view other client's data). Set-up should only take 5 minutes and is a simple 5 step process.

Step 1.
Log into your Google Analytics account and select the client specific account to which you wish to add a user account. Select Analytics Settings and click on User Manager.

Step 2.
On the Existing Access Bar click on the + Add User link.

Step 3.
In the Create New User For Access window add the user's email address, their last name, their first name and set the Access Type to View Reports Only.

Step 4.
Select the Available Website Profile and click Add to the Selected Website Profile.

Step 5.
Click Finish and you are done, the user can now use their gmail account to log into Google Analytics and they will see all the website profiles that you have given them access to.