Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Welcome to yet another exciting magical episode of Web Analytics TV!Web Analytics TV is powered by your questions, in this episode we had questions from Australia, India, Russia, Germany, Israel, Poland, Argentina, Dubai, Cyprus and so many other places. It is amazing to see such an engaged audience from around the world. You all rock!Our process is simple. Step 1: You ask, or vote on, your favorite...
This is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to a small number of Analytics users. We’ll be giving access to more users soon. Sign up for early access.The graph on top of most Google Analytics reports is designed...

Monday, 28 March 2011

Did you know that you can easily get more than 10,000 rows of data from Analytics using the API? Auto-Pagination through the APIHere is a quick overview on how to do auto-pagination with our API. You might also follow along by checking the fully working sample code in Python which you can use in your own applications.The...

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

This is the first in a series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to a small number of Analytics users. We’ll be giving access to more users soon. Sign up for early access.Today, we would like to introduce you to the new dashboards...
Google Analytics helps you measure how visitors arrive to your site. For example, by traffic source, geography, landing pages, and other dimensions. Unfortunately, we’re no longer able to offer data on one of these dimensions: Connection Speed, and we are now in the process of deprecating the Connection Speed dimension.You will still be able to access historical connection speed data prior to February...

Monday, 21 March 2011

Users of the AdSense reports inside of Google Analytics may have noticed that there have been discrepancies between the AdSense reports in Google Analytics and AdSense since March 16th. We’re aware of the issue and a fix is being rolled out at this time. The cause of the issue is not related to the new version of Google Analytics.We’ll continue to update this post when the issue is resolved, and you...

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Today at the Google Analytics User Conference in San Francisco, we shared a look at a new version of Google Analytics. We’ve also reached out to a small group of Analytics users to participate in the testing. If you’re part of this group you’ll see a link to the new version in your Analytics account. We’re starting small, and we’ll gradually roll the new version out to everyone.Our goals for the new...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

If you're reading this blog, chances are very high that you value data, and chances are also high that you appreciate the presentation of data. Going beyond a spreadsheet of rows and columns and creating a visualization is not only pleasing to the eye, but it can also help put meaning and context to the data...

Friday, 4 March 2011

This week, we are beginning a new way of providing benchmarking data to Google Analytics users. For almost three years, Google Analytics has provided a Benchmarking report for users who opt in for anonymous data sharing. In a few days, however, we will be removing the Benchmarking report from the Google Analytics...
This post is inspired by Henrik who posted a comment on last week’s Mastering Unique Visitor blog post. His question was, “Most API users would not create web apps but rather easily access their data without account authentication. Is this possible? Could you describe it?”Great question Henrik! While you do have to authenticate to the Google Analytics Data Export API in order to access data, your...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

The next Google Analytics User Conference is coming up on Thursday, March 17th in San Francisco. Attend and you’ll connect with other Google Analytics users, industry experts, authors and even folks here from the Google Analytics team. GAUGE (as in Google Analytics Users’ Great Event) is being produced by several...