[williamssmith23]

Google set up a dashboard viewing area for a website overview. This is where all of your most basic and most important statistics about your website will be for easy viewing. What's great about this is that you can customize your dashboard to your liking, including which reports you want at the top, which reports you don't use and want gone, etc. There is a newer version and older version offered to you when utilizing Google Analytics, and you're free to choose whichever you're more comfortable with. They both offer essentially the same features, but have different layouts and looks to them. There is a good chance that the newer version will become mandatory after a time, so I recommend you try to begin with that one so that it feels natural right away.