Comments on: “Enterprise” Google Analytics

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:00:36 +0000

Hi Clark,

You can now create an advanced segment to segment your data by landing page. I think the thing you may want to try is using advanced segments in conjunction with an advanced link tagging strategy.

Justin

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:28:34 +0000

If GA can provide a filter by landing page, that would be great. We always use some URL parameters to distinguish campaigns to the same page, but when you wanna build up profiles for each of them, you just can’t do it.

I know with utm_source,utm_medium…,this can be done. But my case is a little special, I’m dealing with all pop-up ads, millions of them and the result of using utm parameters is I can track only 1/10 to 1/5 of the actual visits.

I gusee it is a challenge to GA’s data processing ability and if there is a paid GA which has more hardware resource equipped, the problem should be resolved.

What’s your opinion, Justin？

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By: Cole

Cole — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:54:35 +0000

Justin, does the 50,000 URL limit apply if you have GA reg ex filters setup that group all URLs viewed to LESS than 50,000? In other words, can one effectively use GA itself for their bucketing strategy instead of doing it via virtual page views?

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By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:14:53 +0000

Markus,

I totally agree. The export in options are too limited. However, I think Google is really pushing us to use GA for more analysis. Hence the email reporting. Do your analysis in GA and then email a report instantly to a coworker. But there are just some times that I want to use Excel…

I also agree on the segmentation. Using profiles and funnels is such a buzz kill…

Thanks for the feedback.

Justin

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:49:49 +0000

Hi Justin,

great article, you hit the nail on the head. I found GA useful for some ecommerce projects, after managing the tags for shop data.

A big disadvantage in my opinion is the limited csv/tsv export. You cannot get a complete list of all pages for example. And this makes using GA really hard when you want to use Excel.

Limited Segmentation is the other issue. Sometimes a client wants a special report for a single section of his site, but I cannot provide him history data in a new profile :-(

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:58:58 +0000

Jeremy,

Thanks for stopping by, great to hear from you.

A ‘global’ filter library would be awesome, I never thought of that.

Thanks for the idea,

Justin

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:52:20 +0000

Hey Justin/Paul -

I definitely agree with the whole Profile copy recommendation. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to just copy an existing profile and make modifications.

It’d also be nice to be able to copy/use filters outside of actual accounts … but we digress …

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:48:41 +0000

Paul,

I totally agree. If you want to do Nth level segmentation with GA it takes planning. Creating all of those profiles is a lot of work. I’ve been asking Google for a profile ‘copy’ feature for a long time. It would make the whole process of creating ‘segment’ profiles much easier.

Thanks for the comment,

Justin