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title: "What are custom dimensions and custom metrics?"  
description: "What are custom dimensions and custom metrics?"  
author: "Yakshit Agarwal"  
published: 2018-02-20  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34611/what-are-custom-dimensions-and-custom-metrics  
category: "google products"  
tags: ["google analytics"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are custom dimensions and custom metrics?

What are [custom](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/282/creating-custom-template-in-joomla) [dimensions](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1834/c-sharp-xaml-how-to-modify-the-dimensions-of-the-rows-and-the-columns-of-a-grid) and custom [metrics](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1507/create-custom-dimension-and-metrics-in-google-analytics-api)?


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