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you are on a quest to solve an anomaly between Q1 and Q2, but would be less helpful
should you just want to compare a one-off question.
You cannot compare reports grouped by date, as this would not make sense,
with you choosing a new date in the date selection box. And if you want to compare a
specific data point, such as visits, over more than one date, i suggest you just choose a
longer period and use the default trended view to compare.
let's take a simple report of visits grouped by search engine referrals, as shown
in Figure 6.13, as an example.
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Figure 6.13 Search engine referrals report
the report shows us that about 70 percent of our direct search engine referrals
are coming from google. A natural marketing question is how this result compares
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