Google rolls out new version of Google Analytics and it’s looking better than ever!
What is new?
In the new version, your reports have been redesigned for clarity, greater visibility of important metrics, and ease of use. Here are just a few of the features you’ll notice:
- Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format.
- Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can email to others.
- Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select date ranges without losing sight of long term trends.
- Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion University tips are available from every report.
The new interface has everything the previous interface had and more. In addition, links within reports make it easier to navigate related information and explore your data. (The above is from an email that Google sent me.)
Anyway, let’s take a visual tour of the new interface.
The interface undergoes a tremendous update, first of all. It looks much cleaner, much sleeker and feels faster. I’ll share with you some site statistics meanwhile.
From the above chart, you can see where my visitors are coming from. Not many people come from Asia and the reason is that most people come to this blog for images. I mean, they even took image of my brother’s birthday cake and post it on blogs to wish their friends happy birthday, wish they at least link back sometimes. I don’t block hot linking but I discourage hot-linking by placing a watermark on all my images.
Setting date ranges are a lot easier now. And the charts look so pretty!
These are my top 10 referrers excluding Google, it shows me where most people come from asides Google images.
What’s really surprising is that more people use Firefox than Internet Explorer to view my blog. I thought it would be the other way round. Personally, I use Opera and it amounts to only 3.3% of the visitors, of which 2.8% is probably just me. I love the pie chart view
And everyone’s favorite search engine is the number one source of my blog.
Google Analytics is the best site analytical tool that’s free. It’s looking better and easier to use now. I also use AWStats to view my statistics but Google is able to look at my blog statistics a lot better. AWStats just show the combined statistics of every things on my website, including this blog. What made me go back to AWStats is the bandwidth tools, it can analyze how much MBs are consumed per day. And I can tell you that AWStats report browser statistics different, AWStats thinks Internet Explorer is number one. I’m not sure who is right though.
With all the cool tools for site analyzation, Google Analytics is the best free product around, I give it a 4.5 upon 5. I couldn’t give full marks it keeps popping up with random errors when I go around testing it.
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