Event Tracking Pt. 3: Reporting & Analysis

This is part three of a three part series about event tracking in Google Analytics. You can find more information in these other posts: Event Tracking Pt. 1: Overview & Data Model Event Tracking Pt. 2: Implementation I wrote this post before having access to the new events reports. As a result, I don’t have [...]

GA On Site Search Pt. 1: Overview & Setup

Google Analytics On Site Search Usage Report

This is part 1 in a two part series about tracking on site search with Google Analytics. In this post I outline the setup and configuration you need to perform to create accurate, usable data in the new reports. If you’d like to get a look at the reports, you can skip to part 2, [...]

GA On Site Search Pt. 2: Reporting & Usage

Onsite Search Reports Menu

This is part two in a two part series about the new GA on site search reports. In part one I discussed the setup. There is a tremendous amount of information in the new Site Serch reports about ow your visitors interact with your search engine. But it goes way beyond measuring how many searches [...]

New GA Feature: Segmented Widgets

Keyword Report

I’m on a roll with GA Desktop Widgets :) Another really cool feature of the new GA dashboard is Segmented Widgets. This is very similar to the Sticky Filters feature that I wrote about last week. With segmented Widgets you can add a segmented report to your dashboard. Here’s an example. I can choose a [...]

New GA Feature: Sticky Filters

Keyword report filter.

This is a pretty cool feature that most people don’t know about. I’m not really sure if it’s officially called ‘Sticky Filters’, but that’s the term I’m going to use. If you apply a filter to a report, and then add that report to a dashboard, the filter will be applied to the data in [...]

Welcome to the New Google Analytics

Add To Dashboard

Today At EMetrics Brett Crosby announced a new version of Google Analytics. Over the next few weeks the Google Analytics team will begin to migrate all Google Analytics accounts to the new version of the application. The changes are significant and, in my opinion, represent a tremendous improvement over the current version. Not that the [...]

Changed GA Feature: Report Organization

20050507_dashboard_nav.png

The GA team has completely reformatted and re-organized the reports. A couple of reports have changed dramatically and, I’m sorry to say, one report did not make the cut and has been removed from the product. A moment of silence please… Quoting the GA help center… Changed & Removed Reports All Navigation Report To find [...]