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Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

VaBeachKevin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:14:47 -0000

Until GA offers more than 4 variables, real customer support, data insertion API, some kind of excel plugin, iphone app tracking, support for tens of thousands of sites in a single suite, and integration with my other vendors (email, a good testing tool, crm) it just wont work for me. Good for some, not for all.

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

James — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:15:56 -0000

Google analytics is the best, hands down. I used to use statcounter, but analytics is so much better.

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Kristal L. Rosebrook — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:37:31 -0000

Good Post

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SEO Company Pune — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:00:15 -0000

I've been using Google Analytics for quite a while now and i am all praises for it. Indeed one of the best free web-analysis tools ever created.

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Meaghan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:54:57 -0000

Thank you - this is a fantastic overview and although I knew a lot of them, there were definitely some new tricks there!

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Google Analytics Guide — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:56:56 -0000

There is a best feature provided by new google analytic. That is you can download a complete report of all the parts of analytics, like site usage overview, visitor overview, traffic sources, top keywords, top content, map overlay overview, goals and goal funnel report etc. in a single pdf format.

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Rich Page — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:45:45 -0000

I really do love Google Analytics, and these are definitely some of the key points.

One thing however, it seems that Google Analytics has taken a step backwards with its site overlay, even though it now pops up. Why? Because all it shows you is number of clicks on each link. What good is that without knowing the percentages of where people go? This used to be on the old site overlay, including the exit rate.

I have a mini-review of google analytics on my blog too:
http://rich-page.com/web-an...

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Schumi — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:29:11 -0000

Hi all,

I'm quite a newbe to this goggle analytics, but i've found something strange with this new art of design interface vs the old interface.

The thing is that i keep gettin' different numbers for the two type of interface.

4example:

Old interface: Absolute Unique Visitors: 355
New interface: Absolute Unique Visitors: 278 (same range applied offcourse) and an extra X-file 4me is that the new interface shows "278" Absolute Unique Visits, while at the end of the page is shows "287" visits (only one day applied)

So any idea??
Thnxxx in advance.

ps: sorry 4 my english

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Luke — Mon, 21 May 2007 06:53:37 -0000

Hi Adam,

Been using Google Analytics for a while now, and would like to showcase a most popular list of pages on my website. I know this is easy to do with a blog (wordpress plugin, etc) but I'm not running a blog. Analytics shows the Top Content by Title, which is exactly what I want, but I can't make it public (an RSS feed or something I can display on my homepage). New analytics offers feature of downloading a report in XML, etc but this is too manual and too slow. Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Luke

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Jirka Wetter — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:17:11 -0000

Good article, but I would recommend to provide little bit more accurate information how to find that reports - it could help newbies

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

MarkenfÃ¼hrung — Fri, 18 May 2007 07:00:31 -0000

That is an excellent summary of the core features and provides a good insight into the power of the new GA 2.

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Duane — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:41:51 -0000

If you haven't picked up on it already, you may be interested to see the innovative visualization mode that another company uses for its overlay:

http://crazyegg.com/

It may seem a bit cartoonish or oriented to the "visual learner" as mentioned above, but it speaks volumes when you can immediately see that some parts of a site garner little interest.

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Vlad — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:11:11 -0000

yes it will be the best soon as its getting much better, also please visit http://www.serioushacker.com/

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Simon — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:50:52 -0000

Hi CarlenLea, thanks for your reply. The article mentions this in feature 20. Visitor Type Contribution â€“ This nifty little dynamic pie chart tells you the contribution your returning visitors are making versus new ones...

I'm looking at the new interface.

Thank you.

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

CarlenLea — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:01:23 -0000

Visitor Type Contribution?

Not sure what you're looking for there. Can you describe what this metric should track?

Also, are you looking for it in the old interface or new interface?

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Simon — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:25:20 -0000

Has anyone seen the Visitor Type Contribution feature? I can't seem to find it in GA help nor by clicking around...

Thank you

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Malan Joubert — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:32:05 -0000

Haha. Google makes me laugh. The seemingly Non-evil entity is becoming more dominant that The USA itself. Soon we might be making war against a Internet Supergod. And yeah yeah... Such a sweet Stats system!

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:27:48 -0000

thanks Nick :)

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Adam Ostrow — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:26:04 -0000

My problem with log files is that they also count bots - for example, Google spidering our site. While this boosts our numbers, it's not really accurate.

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:24:38 -0000

They do have the heat maps - see #4. Kind of hard to tell from the screen shot, but it's pretty clear when you're actually inside the interface which areas of the country are hot in terms of visits, conversions, etc

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:23:02 -0000

You appear to be right, I can't find hourly view either. Hopefully they'll put it back in before they close down the old version.

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Nick — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:16:53 -0000

Damn, Pete. You've got some great writers on the Mashable team. Excellent, insightful post Adam. Look forward to reading more articles from ya :)

Nick
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Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Webanalyticsbook — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:51:33 -0000

Good summary of Google Analytics.
I made a list of 149 alternatives to Google Analytics:
http://www.webanalyticsbook...

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

Bill Hartzer — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:41:30 -0000

Unfortunately I haven't been lucky enough to have my Google Analytics account upgraded, but hopefully it will be sooner than later.

I've tried a few analytics packages, including Google Analytics and Statcounter--but always end up going back to my trusty log file analyzer because it give so much more accurate data. Too bad Google Analytics won't allow you to import or rely on log files to give more accurate data.

I have to agree with bl.asphemo.us, though, as this new update of Google Analytics seems to be a step in the right direction.

Re: 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed

marc — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:28:08 -0000

I use both statcoutner and google analytics to compare stats, because both give some good feedback on my traffic.