The New Google Analytics Available to Everyone
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | 1:57 PM
Labels: Announcements, New Google Analytics
This is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to all Analytics users. And follow Google Analytics on Twitter for the latest updates.
I’m very excited to announce that the new version of Google Analytics is now available to all Google Analytics users in all languages. When you sign into Google Analytics you’ll see a link to the new version in the top right of your account.
If you haven’t, we encourage you to try the new version today. There’s a host of new features to help you do better analysis. These new features are only the beginning of what's coming to the new Google Analytics platform over the next few months.
Here are five things you can try in Google Analytics v5 today:
- Create an additional dashboard to focus on your important metrics
- Set up an Event Goal to track interactions like downloads and video engagement
- Graph and compare any two rows over time with Plot Rows
- Check out your favorite report (Did it move? Our Report Finder can help)
- Flip between your different profiles and sites while staying focused on the same report
So what happens next? You’ll continue to have access to both versions of Google Analytics, and you can switch between them at any time. If you find anything that doesn’t work or could be better, let us know. We especially want to hear about issues that force you back to the current version. We’re still hard at work on enabling a few features from the old version including PDF export and email scheduling, and they’ll be coming soon.
Take some time this week to try the new Google Analytics, and let us know what you think. We’ll continue making improvements and adding functionality. Next week, we’ll be covering how to use custom reports in the new version.
64 comments:
Bravid said...
Thanks for pointing out which features haven't made it yet. I spend awhile searching for scheduled reports a couple weeks ago only to switch back to the old version.
2:57 PM
Seth said...
Does it (finally) give us the option of consolidated reports across multiple profiles?
3:30 PM
gL said...
Will there ever be a way to move accounts to other profiles without having to delete them and creating them anew?
3:49 PM
TerminatorFiles said...
We'll probably have to get used to it... but the 'My Analytics-accounts' dropdownmenu of the old version is better than the uber-grahical method in the new version. An overview of all accounts is quite hard to get, which was easy and scrollable in the old form-element.
4:01 PM
William said...
Like the new dashboard feature! Will save some time hunting around. Will you do features posts on your blog about the new features and how to use?
Thank you!
6:06 PM
aaron.scott said...
I have checked out the new version and there are some great improvements.
There are couple of features that I believe are worth while investigating:
* Expanding dashboard widgets to enable personal comments/notations, the ability to apply filters to individual widgets and pull widgets from custom reports
* Better handling of individual eCommerce product reporting throughout Google Analytics. When you only have a few different products that are very different (such as financial services applications - personal loans, home loans, investment accounts) it is important to see product quantity and product revenue by product. It is currently very difficult to identify traffic sources, campaigns and performance for individual products without trying to overlay custom advanced segments onto dashboard widgets and custom reports.
* Custom segments only seem to be able to be applied to vary limited amounts of data (no longer than a month?). It us necessary at times to report on/analyse trends over several months and as mentioned above it is near impossible to monitor the performance and traffic sources/campaigns to individual products.
Thanks,
Aaron
7:11 PM
Jeff said...
@gL Add the new profile as an administrative user for the account you want to transfer.
8:36 PM
Antique said...
I must see it!
I been using Google analytics for optimizing my decorative concrete website.
8:52 PM
markus said...
1:05 AM
Päivi said...
When it is possible to use weeks,
we are using in europe?
From monday to sunday.
1:20 AM
Sushil Kumar Verma said...
Google's new update in Google Analytics have very good features. It will help us in data analysis.
1:29 AM
alison said...
Hmmm, the first thing I tried to do in the new version was extend the time period shown on the dashboard and I'm not impressed. Where did the click and drag date range go?
3:28 AM
Josh Einstein said...
Hey it's Trevor! Can't wait to try the new analytics. Been looking for an excuse to start blogging again. Keep up the good work.
3:54 AM
Atom McCree said...
1. Am I missing the traditional dashboard? I have multiple email reports that I send out to clients and will those now be blank if I don't build out the dashboard? I also don't like building from scratch when I can go back to the old version and get the needed metrics already built. Might be better to migrate the same modules then let me add and remove.
4:27 AM
Atom McCree said...
2. I miss the overall monthly compare view that sat on the management page for someone with multiple accounts and multiple sites. I like being able to quickly see how all sites are doing month over month.
3. So say that I have to build these dashboards over and over it would make sense to have a template that I can use on all my sites no matter the account. Master Templates. So I don't have to build 50 new dashboards.
4. In Business I can't have things break for even a day so until these things are in place I cannot switch.
5. PLEASE let me set default COMPARE TO PAST metrics on my home dashboards. The data is useless if I can't compare to past and it is something I always have to go into the dropdown and check the box.
So on my custom dashboard give me the default compare to "one month", "one year", "one quarter".
I love the look besides these things and being able to have a nice widget based home page is great. Just be sure to think of us guys that use this as part of our livelihood.
4:28 AM
MrZ said...
I tested it out and have to say the layout isn't really that quick to learn. Tracking downloads and video time is still best done with some scripts on the web and what I would have like to seen is a method to start tracking Form Abandonment rather then using page views or event tracking. Something quick and easy to add. I'm still shocked the new GA can't handle it properly.
6:53 AM
mightybs said...
A number of previously missing features have been added, and I've been able to clear up some confusing data being able to further edit profile information. The new UI is also clean and smooth. Thank You Google!
8:04 AM
iwipa said...
8:21 AM
FotoMaton said...
I was planning in taking the Analytics IQ test, how will the new interface affect the test? Should I study the new interface in stead?
9:09 AM
Oren said...
Really great usability, massive improvement.
9:30 AM
Zak said...
Thanks for making it less Flash reliant, but it would be great to see it completely Flash-free.
11:41 AM
Sona said...
11:52 AM
Sona said...
I have several different profiles set up with different filters to track goal conversions (form completions) based on different geographical campaigns set up on adwords across the same website. Every morning I looked at the account overview in analytics where I could easily see and compare the # of goal conversions for each profile from the previous day, and make sure they reconcile with the profile without filters which gave me the total amount of forms completed. This was very useful and it appears that the only way to see the number of goal conversions is to look in each individual profile now. Will there be/is there a way to see an overview of goal conversions, page visits, bounce rates, etc. like there was in the old version?
Thanks
11:53 AM
Ramesh said...
Not very intuitive.How do I filter by keywords in organic search?
12:29 PM
Ramesh said...
Ahhh..."filter by keywords" has moved to the top. And its labeled as "Search"
12:46 PM
BuddyWeb said...
I like the integration between Google Analytics and Google AdWords. It just feels well thought through and designed for efficient campaign management.
They are saying that more features are coming, so I am going to be logging in every day to check them out.
Buddy p I really like how well integrated Google Analytics and Google AdWords are now. This is helpful the SEM campaigns that use Google Analytics. There appear to be several features that will be rolling out in the next few weeks, so it will be worth watching carefully.
Buddy - http://wordspicturesweb.com/?p=167
7:24 PM
Swapna Khade said...
Its very interesting....
2:41 AM
wagaf-d said...
I would like to transfer websites that where created with my original account to new accounts. Is that possible ?
9:27 AM
Agentmango said...
I am testing it now..
9:50 PM
technabob said...
Any chance that real-time or near real-time analytics are on the roadmap? I work for a company with some very large sites, and waiting 24 hours for reports to be complete is far less than ideal for us. I know on smaller sites, reports are usually only a few hours behind.
10:06 PM
Agentmango said...
The new version is user friendly. However, when I switch to the new version, my new blog address is not fetch. It displays the blogspot address of my Ninja Saga Cheats blog rather than the new domain.
10:15 PM
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12:06 AM
bob warner said...
Seems very intersecting.Many things are new in this version. changes are appreciated.
11:05 PM
mark said...
Yup, I have the same problem as Agentmango above: the domain displayed is not the one tied to the UA number. It seems all my profiles are juggled. I'm not switching to the new version until that is fixed.
1:56 AM
Jeff Zimmerlin said...
I deeply miss the "View Report" link on the dashboard widgets...
9:50 AM
Karla @ {The Classy Woman} said...
As of Feb.8th my analytics all show zero which is impossible because I've had many people leave comments and view the pages. I can see info listed under stats in Blogger but for some reason analytics stopped working for me. I'm not sure why. My feedburner link is the same.
The only thing I can think of is I had a blog designer design a new blog for me and add code. Could she have possibly messed up some tracking for my analytics? If anyone could respond, that would be much appreciated.
10:56 AM
Preserve Glass Studio said...
Just added Google Analytics to my site, this is a great service.
http://www.PreserveGlassStudio.com
11:21 AM
grantgrant said...
Can the main graph reflects the filter value like the old analytics tool did? I heard it is by design but any rational behind it?
12:05 PM
Ysfun said...
The new version is user friendly. best step from google
12:27 PM
sanjeev said...
GA V5 is much fast and user friendly, but............ it does not show the % wise growth and fall, while comparing the data for the specific time duration.
11:11 PM
Roshan Joshi said...
the new interface is vastly different from old interface and will take some time to get used to for new users.
3:56 AM
Agentmango said...
Same goes to my other domains. The new version still has my blogspot blog address and not the new domain url like my PC Holics blog.
4:17 AM
bernstein-google said...
I'm having an issue liking the new dashboard feature...
1) There's no link to View Report, so I can't go anywhere quickly.
2) Without the ability to filter the widgets, they're useless. So, if I want a widget that shows my newsletter traffic (filtered by source) and a different widget to show organic traffic, I can't do it. They're way to general at this point. The current dashboard is so much better.
3) There's no "Add to Dashboard" link on reports, which was great and is now gone.
9:12 AM
bernstein-google said...
4) It's nice to be able to plot data points on the graph but, when I filter, the default graph doesn't show the traffic pattern for the resulting data. It's still showing me 100% of the pageviews. I need to be able to see the traffic pattern for the all of the filtered data together. Right now you can only select 2. This makes no sense. I have to assume I'm missing something. How do you get the graph on the top to change?
9:19 AM
janderso64 said...
On April 22 2011, I reviewed my Goggle Analytics data - all was fine. Today, April 26, all data was missing and had a message in Webmaster Central that my DNS TXT was incorrect. Mind you I didn't alter the DNS TXT. I had to re-verify my site using a new DNS TXT. Not happy at all!!
11:27 AM
Eevee said...
Looks nice, less stuff to sift through, and is much more responsive. Nice job.
It's a terrible shame that the overview charts still rely on the Flash plugin, which I don't have. SVG fallback would be greatly appreciated. At least some pages are no longer completely broken.
12:00 PM
KJ said...
My choice for measuring 'domain with multiple sub-domains' hasn't replicated to the properties visible in the new Google Analytics.
4:03 AM
janderso64 said...
Yesterday I wrote a comment in regards to DNS TXT missing.. It turns out it was a user error - mine. I logged with my personal account and not the company account and didn't realize it until today. Sorry for the misunderstanding and any extra work my comment may have caused.
5:24 AM
Stahl said...
Why now i have to learn everything new?
Where is my dashboard, where are my settings?
Why now i have to search for things that i was used to use?
Why also the new version is slow as snails runnig uphill?
9:04 AM
DMan said...
Does this new version tracks each individual link separately on "In-Page Analytics" Report?
Current version tracks all links on the same page to the same destination together. For example, if I have two links to page "about us" and it is 2% of all clicks on the page, I have no way to distinguish them.
If new version doesn't have it, is it in works and is there any approximate ETA on it?
Thank you for the great free tool.
3:37 PM
ofer said...
Launching a new and different version is always a cause for many complaints. Most people naturally don't like changes. This is not a good enough reason not to change and innovate.
BUT - the fact that the metrics comparison between time periods is just gone truly brings up some questions... I mean - is there even one user who does not use this feature?? who doesn't want to compare this week's(/month's/year's) results with last one's?
1:02 AM
Blog said...
Almost flash free, almost!
6:49 AM
David said...
In general I like the upgrade but I find I need to go back to the old version regularly. The biggest short-coming of the new version has to do with searches/filters within a report. For example in the old version if I filter by typing in a keyword the graph above would change and all the top metrics would be provided for that search. A search on a word would show me all the keywords that matched that search along with the % out out of the total visits that matched that search. In the new version none of the metrics or the graph above change based on the search. I hope this is a known error and will be rectified soon. Until then I will need to keep going back to the old version.
8:48 AM
EdSF said...
Great navigation - faster and makes it really easy if you have multiple sites/profiles.
Took a little getting used, to but overall pretty straightforward. This makes the excellent option to switch between old and new invaluable - this is probably the best part (while transitioning). Kudos!
Feedback: probably an easier way to get to "setup" is needed (configure goals, etc.).
Overall: excellent.
7:40 AM
The SharePoint Hosting Pioneer said...
I am having the same issue as David mentions above:
"In general I like the upgrade but I find I need to go back to the old version regularly. The biggest short-coming of the new version has to do with searches/filters within a report. For example in the old version if I filter by typing in a keyword the graph above would change and all the top metrics would be provided for that search. A search on a word would show me all the keywords that matched that search along with the % out out of the total visits that matched that search. In the new version none of the metrics or the graph above change based on the search. I hope this is a known error and will be rectified soon. Until then I will need to keep going back to the old version"
6:45 AM
Chris said...
The customized segments do not work now. Please fix.
12:50 PM
Texas Lightsmith said...
OMG Google... You're blowing my mind!! I am a giddy goat!
6:56 AM
Wake up on Earth said...
Hi,
Even though we are just in Beta can we change it now so we are permanently in the New version by default ?
Also is there a way to compare a list of sites on every level ?
12:29 AM
sean said...
David: I totally agree on the "search/filter" comment.
This is not a good change unfortunately, and fingers crossed this is just an error/oversight in the beta version.
7:29 AM
dede59 said...
I already make many hours scanning just to know all those changes, does new changes offered could help the system of our blogging or it will just delayed us?
12:30 AM
audriusa said...
While Flash graphs look really nice, I do not see them at all in my iPad that I use for quick check - not supported. I would propose to have some GIF alternative or in the worst case table for mobile devices. In general the optimal mobile device view is very different as it is desireable to have everything at once on a very small screen.
1:35 AM
Me said...
For ALL of my clients, I use the compare feature in my monthly reporting. I notice that with the new version, I don't get to see the PERCENTAGE of change (positive or negative) - am I missing something? Why isn't this there? I know I need it. Is there something I need to set to view it?
10:43 AM
Nick said...
I agree with this: "For ALL of my clients, I use the compare feature in my monthly reporting. I notice that with the new version, I don't get to see the PERCENTAGE of change (positive or negative) - am I missing something? Why isn't this there? I know I need it. Is there something I need to set to view it?"
I also use this for all my clients. The new format does not have the overlapping timelines, with the percentage change and "previous" for the period you're comparing to. Please tell me this is coming back, because otherwise I may as well quit doing what I do, since my reports will take hours to create manually, and will be SO much longer (since the new format is nowhere near as concise).
8:27 PM
Mel said...
There are some things that seem nice, what little I've had time to browse through. However, in trying to complete a report that should have taken but a couple hours, I have wasted 2 days. The reports constantly reset while I worked and the advanced filter resets every time I change a dimension.
I need to look at events that occurred for visits from specific landing pages that contain targeted keywords.
Content -> Events -> Top Events
Secondary dimension: landing page
Advanced filter: use to narrow the results to contain only the specific page.
Change Secondary dimension to: Traffic sources->keywords
Advanced filter reset!!!!! WHY?!?!!?
I either need to be able to add more dimensions or to be able to accumulate the advanced filter like it does in the old interface.
1:36 PM
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