A Social Media Dashboard for Google Analytics

Google Analytics Social Media Dashboard

As I’ve talked about before, dashboards are great for people that are focused on a specific thing. You can create a dashboard focused on mobile, one that is focused on a certain campaign, or one that is focused on social. Creating a social dashboard in Google Analytics is a lot easier now that we have [...]

Save Your Ass With Google Analytics Data Alerts

Google Analytics Hostname Alert

Let’s face it, we’re all a bit “lazy.” I admit it, I don’t check my website data every day. And when I’m on vacation it can be a bigger challenge. But that’s OK, I use data alerts to stay on top of my data even if I can’t check analytics every day. Are you using [...]

Google Analytics Real Time: Real Time Data for Real Time Decisions

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Google Analytics now contains a series of real-time reports that measure what’s happening on your site in real time. These reports will roll out in the next 1 to 2 weeks. I’ve long railed against real-time data. I’ve said that businesses don’t need real time data. It’s very hard to action on time data. I’ve [...]

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. 2: Reporting & Usage

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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 [...]

Changed GA Feature: Report Organization

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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 [...]