I’ve been writing about Google Analytics a lot lately and think it’s time for an Urchin post. I know Urchin isn’t as new and exciting as Google Anlytics, but it is a fantastics web analytics package. It can process huge chunks of data quickly and provides great reporting at an amazing price. One of my [...]
Track your Google Analytics Changes
Posted: August 31, 2006 4 Comments
Whenever I work with a client the first thing I do is create a change log for Google Analytics. I create a very basic spreadsheet (usually suing Google Spreadsheets so I can share it with the client) and use it to record every modification I make to their GA settings. The file is not overly [...]
Making Google Analytics Content Reports more Readable
Posted: August 21, 2006 25 Comments
I was teaching a class on Google Analytics last week. The audience was non-technical and the session focused on how to effectively use GA reports and the most efficient way to communicate data to clients. While browsing the Content Optimization reports one of the antendees made a great observation. She commented that viewing ‘hits’ based [...]
Google Analytics is Now Open to Everyone
Posted: August 15, 2006 Leave a Comment
Well, it’s happened. After months of programming and scaling Google has released Google Analytics to the world! No more waiting for an account. The only limitation is that non-AdWords users have a 5 million pageviews/month cap. Congrats to the GA team for all their hard work!
Getting More out of Google Analytics Goals
Posted: August 4, 2006 15 Comments
Setting up goals in Google Analytics is a vital step in monitoring the success of your website. While it is not necessary, setting up goals helps you harness the complete power of the application. Most people usually set up goals and scrutinize the conversion rate. I’m not going to comment on conversion rate, Avinash has [...]
Google Analytics breaks 500,000 Accounts
Posted: August 4, 2006 Leave a Comment
Holy crap! I just found a GA account number over 500,000! That’s a lot of GA installations. What’s interesting is that I noticed an account number over 400,000 on June 22, 2006. That’s some serious growth. Google also announced this week that they were increasing the number of profile available on each account. Looks like [...]
Custom Segmentation with Google Analytics
Posted: July 25, 2006 9 Comments
Last week wrote a piece about using custom segments to exclude yourself from Google Analytics tracking. I didn’t stop to think that some folks may not know what custom segmentation is and how it is implemented with Google Analytics. So today I’ll cover how to setup and use custom segmentation with Google Analytics. Segmentation of [...]
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