Metric and Dimension

Metrics is measurement example- number of visits, page visited and avg. time on site. It can also in graph form and we can compare two metrics on the same graph and further divided into tabs example:- side uses, goal set, e-commerce and clicks tab and Adsense tab.

A dimension is an descriptive attribute or characteristic of an object that can be given different values. Many reports contains tables and these tables usually break out data by a single dimensions.

Their is also secondary dimension which let us see the data for each combination of two dimensions.