I often visit Google Analytics to look at the visitors trends and have some idea on how my content and effort is performing. Google Analytics is no doubt one of the most relied free tool to analyze your site performance and almost every webmasters and bloggers use it. Visitor’s trend, traffic source and top content are always some of my primary interest when I visit Analytics.
Few days ago, Gmail got its new look and as always, there are many to hate the change and lot more again to adapt and appreciate it. Now, the new look of Google Analytics is available to everybody for all language and let’s welcome the new interface. Yea, it’s in new suite now but more than that it has some great weapons!
More Dashboards
One most startling addition to the Analytics is the additional dashboard. Now you can add more dashboards and focus on more of your metrics.
Dashboard is the first screen you see when visiting Analytics probably for all the users. In new version of Google Analytics, Dashboard is redesigned to make it completely widget-based and highly customized. It offers you four different types of widgets - Metric, Pie Chart, Timeline, and Table. Pull the data as it suits your analysis!
Please click here to read more about New Analytics Dashboard.
The New Event Goal
Analytics provided URL goals. Since 2009 it offered Engagement goals to track success metrics around visit depth and time on site. Now, from this version of Google Analytics a new most requested feature is added – Event Goal.
You can use Event Tracking in Google Analytics to track visitor actions that don’t correspond directly to pageviews.Events are defined using a set of Categories, Actions, Labels, and Values.
You can read more about this new Event Goal in Analytics Blog.
Visitor’s Flow
I find this chart pretty pleasing. It reveals how traffic flow through your website or blog. The Visitors Flow view provides a graphical representation of visitors’ flow through the site by traffic source (or any other dimensions) so you can see their journey, as well as where they dropped off. You’ll find this visualizer on the left hand navigation menu, where you’ll see a new “Visitors Flow” link under the Visitors section.
And Many More
Ahh! I can’t learn everything on single sitting when there are lot more new features. However the above ones are what attracted me immediately and I could notice. Will be talking more in future if anything else interests or appears most useful for bloggers like us.
Did you appreciate the new change or you were comfortable with previous version? Will the new Google Analytics help you to increase your efficiency and productivity? Waiting to hear your thought.
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Google analytiics got a lot of goood updates recently. I also like that they have added real time tracking. Overall, I think google analytics is one of the most useful tools for bloggers.
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Yea, real time tracking. Needs to keep an eye on it.
Thank you Richard for the comment.
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I like the idea of visual representation of that visitors flow thing. I have not yet checked it out though – Need to!
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It was there from bit earlier and yea its interesting to study the visitors flow in your website. Nice tool, isn’t it?
I love the new analytics especially the live/real time view
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That’s too much great.Now we can confidently track our traffic.
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In the starting of blogging I didn’t cared about Google Analytics but after reading lots of pro blogs I come to know that what the sweet dish I was missing Now I spend more time to explore it to find what can I do to enhance the blogging.
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I like the new look of Google analytics
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I appreciate your nice post on Google Analytics that helps to know the visitorr trends. This is really important to learn Google Analytics for overall performance of the site. I found very useful information from your post regarding the topics. Thanks for sharing the post.
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Thank you Rezaul for the comment.
Thanks Suresh for providing this good information, google analytic is my all time favorite tools to get keyword and analyzing my site and now having new features in that will make me stick on it for ever.
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Better than ever, now that it has more tricks up in its sleeve.
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Truly offers some insights so that you can better plan your strategies.
Nice informative post, Analytics really a g great tool, it gives perfect results, Compared statcounter looks for efficient but gives impperfect result, In case if adsense banned account then analytics data can be used to prove our innocense to adsense..
Regards
Ritesh
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ahh! this is another aspect you pointed Ritesh. Thank you for the input and your comment here.
I’ve read somewhere, using google analytic hurts web rankings. so i never really bothered to use it, but reading some of the updates you present here is interesting to see, the visitor’s flow looks amazing!
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I never found it that way Keith. Do you remember how it was explained that Analytics may hurt the web ranking? I’m using it since beginning.
The most important benefit of using the new Analytics is that you have more dashboards.
Pretty useful, isn’t it?
Hi, suresh..
I just use integrated my blog to google analytics too..
It’s easy to view who visit my blog…
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Welcome Mutri in the world of tracking and analyzing. Hope you’ll make best use of Analytics.
Google does it again! I can’t help but wonder if their progress will ever be stunted, but it doesn’t look like it will be in the near future. The new look to Google Analytics seems to be in a bit of controversy, but what great changes aren’t? It’s good of you to keep us all informed, thanks for taking the time!
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Thank you Daniel for the comment. We can’t but adopt the change and move towards perfection
nice post,when i first started blogging, i wasnt bothered about Google Analytics after a while though i realised that reseaarch enhanced the quality of my blogging 10 fold
Thank you Julie for sharing your experience. Knowing about traffic and their behavior truly helps to improve blogs. Lets make more use of it!
Hey Suresh, the new interface is great, isn’t it? At first I had a little trouble navigating it, however, what people need to remember is that is exactly how you feel the first time you use any new interface.
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Google is constantly promoting its all online department Google Analytic advancements are appreciable but I have not yet explored them in depth.
I have Google Analytic account for my blog but have never observed such a visitor flow graphical presentation.
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Google Analytics is awesome, and especially feature rich compared to any paid offering. I love the new assisted conversion funnel.
Thanks for sharing this information with us, its really good to have this information about my favorite google analytic.
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There is a TON of information that can be gathered by using Google Analytics. This often under utilized by most bloggers.
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