Columns

The USAGE view contains the following columns. Columns marked with an asterisk comprise the primary key.

Column Name Data Type Notes
​_CITY String(255) Users' city, derived from their IP addresses or Geographical IDs.
​_CONTINENT String(255) Users' continent, derived from users' IP addresses or Geographical IDs.
​_COUNTRY String(255) Users' country, derived from their IP addresses or Geographical IDs.
​_DATE Date The date of the session formatted as YYYYMMDD.
​_DAY String(255) The day of the month, a two-digit number from 01 to 31.
​_DAYOFWEEK String(255) Day of the week, a one-digit number from 0 (Sunday) to 6 (Saturday).
​_DAYOFWEEKNAME String(255) Name (in English) of the day of the week.
​_HOSTNAME String(255) The hostname from which the tracking request was made.
​_HOUR String(255) A two-digit hour of the day ranging from 00-23 in the timezone configured for the account. This value is also corrected for daylight savings time. If the timezone follows daylight savings time, there will be an apparent bump in the number of sessions during the changeover hour (e.g., between 1:00 and 2:00) for the day per year when that hour repeats. A corresponding hour with zero sessions will occur at the opposite changeover. (Google Analytics does not track user time more precisely than hours.)
​_LANGUAGE String(255) The language, in ISO-639 code format (e.g., en-gb for British English), provided by the HTTP Request for the browser.
​_METRO String(255) The Designated Market Area (DMA) from where traffic arrived.
​_MONTH String(255) Month of the session, a two digit integer from 01 to 12.
​_NETWORKDOMAIN String(255) The domain name of users' ISP, derived from the domain name registered to the ISP's IP address.
​_NETWORKLOCATION String(255) The names of the service providers used to reach the property. For example, if most users of the website come via the major cable internet service providers, its value will be these service providers' names.
​_REGION String(255) Users' region, derived from their IP addresses or Geographical IDs. In U.S., a region is a state, New York, for example.
​_USERTYPE String(255) A boolean, either New Visitor or Returning Visitor, indicating if the users are new or returning.
​_WEEK String(255) The week of the session, a two-digit number from 01 to 53. Each week starts on Sunday.
​_YEAR String(255) The year of the session, a four-digit year from 2005 to the current year.
​_YEARMONTH String(255) Combined values of ga:year and ga:month.
BOUNCES Integer The total number of single page (or single interaction hit) sessions for the property.
ENDDATE Date
ENTRANCES Integer The number of entrances to the property measured as the first pageview in a session, typically used with landingPagePath.
EXITS Integer The number of exits from the property.
PAGELOADSAMPLE Integer The sample set (or count) of pageviews used to calculate the average page load time.
PAGELOADTIME Integer Total time (in milliseconds), from pageview initiation (e.g., a click on a page link) to page load completion in the browser, the pages in the sample set take to load.
PAGEVIEWS Integer The total number of pageviews for the property.
SEGMENTID String(255)
SESSIONDURATION Time Total duration (in seconds) of users' sessions.
SESSIONS Integer The total number of sessions.
STARTDATE Date
TIMEONPAGE Time Time (in seconds) users spent on a particular page, calculated by subtracting the initial view time for a particular page from the initial view time for a subsequent page. This metric does not apply to exit pages of the property.
UNIQUEPAGEVIEWS Integer Unique Pageviews is the number of sessions during which the specified page was viewed at least once. A unique pageview is counted for each page URL + page title combination.
VIEWID String(255)