Looker Studio ensures that you can easily visualize your reports. This has made it a favorite among marketers and business professionals. However, using analytics tools can be challenging and stressful, considering that you have to add data, design reports, etc.
But did you know that you can be more productive while reducing stress using Looker Studio? How so? The answer lies in the report templates that Looker Studio provides. In this blog, youll learn all about report templates and which are the best for businesses.
Let’s get started.
What Are Google Looker Studio Report Templates?
Google Looker Studio offers report templates to help businesses use Looker Studios’ power without the stress of having to design a report from scratch.
Google Looker Studio has a Report Library that lets users choose templates from a wide selection of ready-to-use templates. Users simply click on a template, add a custom name and their data, and the report helps visualize their data fast.
With that in mind, let’s learn where you can get the templates.
Where Do You Find the Looker Studio Report Templates?
Once you open Google Looker Studio, you will notice the ‘Reports’ section on the left-hand side of Looker Studio. You’ll see a blank report as well as 3 other templates.
Click on the ‘Template Gallery’ option on the far left-hand side. Looker Studio will open the template gallery page to display all the available templates.
You can filter the templates by category when you click on ‘Category’ under the template gallery. There are templates for Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, YouTube Analytics, Google Sheets, Big Query, Search Ads 360, and Display and Video 360.
You can choose any template depending on your needs, and Looker Studio will show you a preview.
Once you confirm that’s the template you want to use. Click on ‘Use my own data’ at the top of the preview, and Looker Studio will populate the report with your actual data.
Next, click on ‘Edit and share’ to give your report a customized name and edit any other details you want to add or remove.
Finally, click ‘Add to report’.
Looker Studio will allow you to edit the template, and the first thing you should do is create a personalized name for your report.
At the top of the report, you can add new pages, data, charts, and controls. You can also edit the theme and layout of the report to customize it further.
The Best Google Looker Studio report templates for businesses
Now that you’ve learned to access Looker Studio Templates, let’s learn about the best report templates for business.
Google Analytics 4 Overview
The Google Analytics 4 overview report template is meant for business owners who want to learn their KPIs (e.g., conversions, conversion by events, channels, and rate as well as the Total users, transactions, and revenue) at a glance.
This template has charts to help you compare and contrast users by gender, device, and country.
To get a feel of this template, click the preview link and follow the instructions under ‘How to use this template’.
Purchase, Conversions Monitoring Template
The Purchases and conversions monitoring template ensures that business owners can easily monitor all details about purchases and conversions from a single template.
As you can see from the screenshot above, it’s very straightforward and has separate tabs for purchases and conversions. It also has a nice guide at the top right corner to help you learn how to use it.
You can further customize the template by tracking conversions or purchases via Device, Date, Item, Brand, and Country.
You can get this template by clicking on its preview link here.
Ecommerce Revenue Template
This template is meant for business users who want to learn more about their ecommerce data.
As you can see from the screenshot above, the dashboard features the sales performance KPIs, including Total purchases, quantity, checkouts, and revenue.
You can filter the revenue by device, brand, marketing channel, and country. Finally, you can always learn how to use it by clicking on the ‘How to use’ option on the right-hand side.
To get this template, visit the preview page here.
Final Thoughts
In this blog post, you’ve learnt that Google Looker Studio has a lot of good templates to offer business owners. Looker Studio allows you to customize your reports and view the data you want to see while removing clutter. Check out our Looker Studio case study where we successfully executed account management tasks for a performance marketing agency, using Looker Studio to get refined data.
So, keep on using Looker Studio to get clear insights and watch your business grow, thanks to improved decision-making.
Magesh
Magesh is a distinguished Data Scientist with over 14 years of experience in Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. As the Vice President of Analytics, he brings a wealth of expertise in tools such as R, SPSS, Tableau, Power BI, and Google Analytics. Magesh is renowned for his profound analytical problem-solving skills and strategic decision-making abilities, making him a leading force in transforming complex data into actionable insights.