Introducing Google Analytics, The Next Generation

Google Analytics V5 Dashboard

Today at the Google Analytics Great User Conference, Phil Mui, product manager for Google Analytics and all around awesome guy, introduced the new version of Google Analytics. This version includes a completely reworked user interface and many, many infrastructure improvements. Before we get into the deals, I should mention that this version is going to [...]

The Executive’s Guide to Google Analytics

Google Analytics Certified Partners

The debate whether Google Analytics is enterprise ready is more or less dead. People have finally figured out that they should use a tool that fits their needs regardless if they have 5 employees or 50,000. If that’s a paid solution fine. If it’s a free solution fine. With that said, I’ve seen the number [...]

Adding Two Books to the Analyst’s Bookshelf

Lots of folks have been emailing asking where the heck I’ve been. I’m still here, but the last few months have been jam packed. In addition to starting a new job at WebShare (which is wicked fun!) I’ve co-authored a new book with two smart guys and finished an update to my first book, er, [...]

Google Analytics Launches new AdWords Reports & Other Goodies

Today at Emetrics, Brett Crosby announced a number of new features and recapped some recent changes to Google Analytics. Here’s a quick video recap of the announcement and some thoughts on the changes. Specific things that Brett talked about: The rebranding of Google Analytics consultants as Google Analytics authorized partners. This was announced on the [...]

Introducing Google Analytics v4

Google introduced a new version of Google Analytics today, filled with new features to make analysts and marketers drool. Included in this new release is: New and Improved Goals (20 goals per profile and new ‘threshold’ goals based on pageviews and time on site) New mobile tracking Table Filtering (a way to quickly filter data [...]

How Google Analytics Tracks ‘Bookmark’ Visits

I was recently inspired by a Tweet to write about how GA tracks visitors that use a bookmark to access a site. Simply put, Google Analytics will attribute a ‘bookmark’ visit to the information in the Google Analytics campaign cookie. Many people believe that GA tracks bookmark visits as (direct) traffic. Google Analytics does not [...]

Google Analytics Version 3.0

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Today Google is releasing a significant update to Google Analytics. I’m not sure if it is officially version 3.0, but the amount of new functionality is extraordinary. Not to mention some nice changes to the interface to clean things up. This new release includes: * Motion Charts (a data visualization tool) * Advanced Segmentation * [...]