Sometimes it’s hard to keep tabs on your business data. For example, it might be summer and you might be on holiday at the beach. But you feel the pressing urge to check up on your business. What are you going to do! Well, if you use Google Analytics, and you have an Android device, […]
A Social Media Dashboard for Google Analytics
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
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
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
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
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 […]