Hourly Bar Chart
The Hourly Bar Chart shows hourly totals since midnight for the selected metric.
For the current hour, the total up until the latest update is shown in green with the projected total for the hour in pale blue. Projections are based on the previous day's data, scaled according to the activity that has occurred so far today.
Move the cursor along the time axis to show the exact quantity and time for each hour, as shown below
Table 1 lists metrics can be viewed using the Hourly Bar Graph module. Unless indicated, metrics for the current hour are updated within five minutes of the event occurring.
| Buying Sessions | The number of sessions in which one, or more, product has been bought. |
| Direct Load Sessions | The number of sessions that cannot be attributed to a search engine, a referral site or a paid Marketing Management Center (MMC) link. |
| Element Views | The total number of intra-page elements viewed. |
| Events Initiated | The total number of conversion events (as defined by the conversion event tag) initiated. |
| Events Completed | The total number of conversion events (as defined by the conversion event tag) completed. |
| Event Points | The total number of event points. |
| Items Ordered | The total number of items ordered. |
| MMC Sessions | The number of sessions that were initiated by clicking on a paid MMC link. |
| Natural Search Session | The number of sessions that began with a visitor arriving at your site from a search engine. |
| New Sessions | The number of sessions initiated by visitors who have not visited your site before (or who have visited the site but deleted the Digital Analytics cookie). |
| On-site Searches | The number of on-site searches that were made. |
| One Page Sessions | The number of sessions that consisted of a single page. |
| Orders | The total number of orders placed. |
| Page Views | The total number of pages viewed. |
| Product Views | The total number of products viewed. |
| Referral Sessions | The number of sessions that began with a visitor arriving at your site from an unpaid referral. |
| Repeat Sessions | The number of sessions initiated by visitors who have made a previous visit to your site (and retained the Digital Analytics cookie). |
| Sales | The total value of sales. |
| Sessions | The number of sessions. |
| Shipping and Handling | The total shipping and handling on these orders. |
* This metric is updated every five minutes with completed session data.