Comments on: Getting to Know the New Google Analytics Admin Interface

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:30:04 +0000

Yup, _setVar(). Maybe you can use that to get the data you need.

Thanks again.

Justin

By: V

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:10:26 +0000

Hi Justin,

Thank you so much for your quick reply. I am not sure I know what you mean by “custom segment cookie”. Do you mean setVar()?

I am a bit surprised that GA can’t track this. I can think of several instances where Firefox plugins force a browser restart :)

Thanks again,
V

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:58:10 +0000

If the browser restarts the GA will always create a new session. Some of the GA cookies used to track visit length are session cookies. Once the browser closes those cookies are deleted, thus killing the visit. Unfortunately there is no way around this.

What you could do is somehow use the Custom Segment cookie to get the data you need.

Hope that helps and thanks for reading the blog.

Justin

By: V

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:49:39 +0000

Hi Justin,

I have a GA question for you. Tried using your contact form, but saw that you would prefer I use this comment form. So, here’s my question:

I have a page on my site where the user installs a browser plugin that (almost always) requires a browser refresh. This is confirmed by the fact that the post-install page (also on the same site) shows 80% landing visitors (in Navigation Summary report). So, it looks like GA is not keeping track of this session. How can this be achieved?

Thanks much!
-V

PS: I have also put up this question on the forums – http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=4835814dd25cb65b&hl=en

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:14:45 +0000

Jason,

As fate would have it our team just developed a note taking application for Google Analytics.

As for the visualization you mocked up, that’s really hard to do. The data over time graph is in Flash and we can’t get into the code to add the business information.

Thanks for reading,

Justin

By: Jason McMinn

Jason McMinn — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:37:56 +0000

We need development events blogging built into charts. I want to be able to plug in key milestones (dates annd description) so that I can see how events have effected traffic.

See it mocked up here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmcminn/2386110453/sizes/o/

By: Goran Giertz

Goran Giertz — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:57:06 +0000

Have seen the reporting and segments but I have not seen the new interface that you talk about above. When is this happening, its awesome, a dream, quick access to all our clients information.

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:17:16 +0000

Hey Will,

The roll out seems to be taking a good amount of time. I’m not sure why but hopefully we’ll see things soon.

Justin

By: itsWill

itsWill — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:29:41 +0000

Hi Justin

Should I be concerned? I haven’t seen the rollout of GA’s new features yet with my profile. Are your clients still playing the waiting game as well?

Keep up the great work!

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Google Analytics 3.0 Excitement - Demerzel's Blog — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:19:26 +0000

[...] User Interface Refresh: [The] tabular layout of accounts is new, and very helpful. If you’re an agency, or a large company, you probably have access to multiple GA accounts. This layout makes it easy to identify performance at the account level. [...]