In case you have your reports delivered by e-mail, you may like to know Google is currently saying the following:
System Message: Analytics Processing Delay from April 30th to May 5th
Google Analytics experienced a data processing error from April 30th to May 5th. Almost all of the data has been recovered and is currently being reprocessed. The recovered data will be reflected in your reports within a few days. Please note that a small percentage of data, particularly in the area of e-commerce reporting, was not recoverable from those dates.
We sincerely apologize for this processing issue and are taking every precaution to prevent such disruptions from occurring again in the future. For more information, please read through our common questions.
The Google Analytics Team
I’ll be getting on with something else while they do.
With the welcome news last week that FeedBurner PRO stats are free, I was asked what else I use stats-wise on Dangerous Thinking.
Inevitably, this blog gets used as a testbed for all sorts of stuff, but here’s the current state of play. Google Analytics gets added to just about any site I’m involved with, so that’s a given. The third, which I’m enjoying using on a day-to-day basis is Clicky [Disclosure: this is an affiliate link], which unlike Google Analytics, gives up-to-the-minute stats.
Clicky’s presentation is clean, almost spare, so it’s easy to get an immediate feel for what’s happening. Yet you can get really anal, tracing the minutiae of individual visits, should the urge take you – and you have a free half-hour.
I also like the way it integrates FeedBurner stats into one tab, meaning I can see everything I need in one place. I now interact with Analytics just once a week when it sends me a PDF of all the reports I like to see.
I’m not going to write an in-depth review of Clicky, save to say that I like it, and will recommend it – there’s a free trial, so hop over to Clicky and try it out.
On Tuesday, Google announced a New Version of Google Analytics (henceforth Analytics).
We will be activating this new version on all current Analytics accounts over the next few weeks, so please be on the lookout for an email from us and keep an eye on your settings page.
Well, our main account has been upgraded, and my look around the new version this afternoon put a huge smile on my face. Google must have been listening to my grumblings and finally put its house in order!
Google summarises the upgrades as follows:
Here are some of the improvements:
* 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.
At first glance, the most exciting thing is the ability to e-mail and export personalized reports. So Analytics is not now dragging its feet behind Adwords – always very frustrating when trying to sell the benefits of Analytics to a client, and having to point out that, by the way, they can’t have those reports e-mailed.
I’m very much looking forward to spending some more time with the new Analytics. It looks as if I won’t be saying ‘Google Analytics is good for the price’ any more.
It’s been quicker and quicker getting a Google Analytics account, and today Google claims you can get an account immediately.
If you’re still struggling with whatever freebie stats your Web host provides, don’t hesistate, get over there and set yourself up.
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