How to Safely Give access to Your Google Analytics Account

ByUrban Renstrom Posted on Web Analytics
Grant access to Google Analytics

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This post is the walkthrough on how to give access to your google analytics account.

Sharing username/Gmail and passwords with people, partners, coworkers and vendors is *not* the best practice for internet safety and security. And is the fastest way to lose access.

Fortunately, Google allows us a safe and simple method to give access to Google Analytics accounts.

How to Give Access to Google Analytics Account

1) Open your Google Analytics account and point your mouse at the bottom to the gear icon *Admin* name #1. The admin is at the bottom of the left-hand column.

Give access to Your Google Analytics Account
#1 click the Admin gear icon

2) A new window opens and you must click on *Account Access Management* #2.

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Grant user access to your Google Analytics – step 2 open Account access management

3) Another new window opens. Click the blue *+* on the top right.

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Give access to Your Google Analytics Account

4) Click the blue *+* #4 and then ‘Add users’.

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Add a new user

5) Add the Gmail address of the person, partners, coworkers or vendor you want to give access to. #5 type the Gmail address of the person. Choose the desired permission level, #6 and click *add* #7.

Success! You’ve now added a user to your Google Analytics account.

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Enter your Gmail, permission levels and press *Add*

6) Under account permissions we see the new user is added, their Gmail address and their permission level granted

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Show all users who’ve access to your Google Analytics account.

7) In the Gmail account of the person you are granting access they will receive this message.

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You have mail: Gmail message “You have been granted access to Google Analytics account”

8) The Gmail message

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You have mail: the confirm message of you have been granted access to Google Analytics

How to Remove Access to your Google Analytics Account

9) Go to the Admin section, step 1 above. Click on *Account Access Management*. Tick the user you would like to remove and click #13 remove.

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How to safely Remove Access to your Google Analytics Account

10) The confirmation message access to the Google Analytics account is removed

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Confirm message that access was removed

Don’t worry, I am Urban Renström, there is always science and research involved in everything I talk about, teach, and demonstrate.

FAQ – How to Give Access to your Google Analytics Account

You are finally asking the right questions as website analytics is a speciality inside of Digital marketing.

Because knowledge and insight from data are what business owners require to make business decisions.

Login to your Google Analytics.
Scroll to Admin section
Click Account Access Management
Click the blue *+*
Enter Gmail address, permission, level and click Add.
Email is sent to the person – indicating access is granted

The easiest way is to share access using the official method outlined above.

go to your admin, click Account Access Management, click blue *+* symbol, type email address, permission level and add.

Grant access to Google Analytics is a fantastic method for business owners to get expert assistance on performance on the website.

Google understand that not all Google Analytics admins have the time nor inclination to master the analytics package. That is why access levels are available to help in this regard.

Grant user access to Google Analytics is simple as clicking a few buttons and presto access is granted.

adding users that do not have a Gmail account is the same process as with a Gmail account

  1. Sign in to Google Analytics.
  2. Click Admin, and navigate to the account.
  3. In the Account column click User Management.
  4. In the Account permissions list, click +, then click Add users
  5. Enter their email and permission level.

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