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# User Metrics Over Time

This report contains user metrics that make sense for the site holistically, rather than for individual URLs.  It shows monthly, weekly, and daily figures that answer the following questions:

1. How many new users visited the site?
2. How many total users visited the site?
3. How many sessions were there on the site?

You can filter the report by:

1. Date range
2. Media

It's generally quite common for the three graphs to have similar shapes, though you will occasionally see some spikes in, say, sessions, but not users or new users if people have a reason to go back to your site over and over on a particular day or week.  Here's what the report looks like:

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