I agree, the 500 row limit for exports is challenging… Hopefully Google will provide a solution to this issue soon. I have seen some people hack a solution using Excel and VB, but it is definitely a hack.

Thanks for commenting and thanks for reading.

Justin

What am I supposed to do if I have 20k rows of data and need to generate a chart? Do the following forty times: – Manually reload the page, select export, select csv, open the new spreadsheet, cut and paste the 500 rows of data into one common worksheet? Come on …

The hourly reporting is back. You can find a link to hourly reporting at in each of the Visitor Trending reports (Visitors > Visitor Trending). It’s located under the narrative which is the textual description of the report.

Justin

Glad you like the new GA!

There are some path analysis tools in GA:
1. If you’re trying to measure a specific process, use the Goal Funnel functionality.
2. If you’re looking for some basic path info, like the sequence of pages, use the Navigation Analysis tools in the Content reports.

The JS tracking code _should_ be cached by the browser after the first load, but that depends on the visitor’s browser settings. It could be that there is latency in the GA server. You could try to host the JS on your own server. Just create an urchin.js file on your server and reference it in the tracking code. WARNING: if Google updated the urchin.js you’ll miss out on the updates.

Maybe it’s slow on the iPhone because of that 2G network :) Speaking of the iPhone, how’s the data look? I’m guessing it’s not too accurate because of the wireless architecture and the routing of data.

Thanks for reading,

Justin

I use GA and Omniture side-by-side. I was an old Urchin customer, but then bought Omniture for a year to test it out. I love the GA upgrade by the way. It is now almost as robust as Omniture. Great job!

Do you have any plans to add path analysis reports to GA so I can see the most common paths through the site and where users are dropping off? Omniture has these reports but I don’t see them in GA.

Also, the code snippet for GA seems to have a negative impact on browser loading times for our pages, especially on iPhone. Is there a remedy for this?

Thanks,

- dean

Hmmm… It seems to work just fine in FF. I can export ‘paid’ or ‘unpaid’ keywords using FireFox. It may be due to one of your FF extensions.

Justin

I dug around for a few hours, scoured some more forums, no luck.

BUT, then I made an interesting discovery — the bug is in Firefox only! In fact, this functionality is fine in Internet Explorer. By doing the exact same thing, side-by-side in both browsers at the same time, I get the results exported properly from IE but not FF. All this time, it was just a Google/Firefox incompatibility. It just took me a moment of desperation to open up IE and give it a try.