Archive for December, 2008
Modifying Scheduled Reports In Google Analytics
If you have dabbled with scheduling reports in Google Analytics, you’ll know how frustrating it is to keep receiving reports you are no longer interested in. A couple of months ago I tested out the scheduling feature myself and set up a schedule to send two reports to myself daily. Since then, I’ve been receiving [...]
Full StoryHow To See Traffic Varying Over Time
I was asked recently if it was possible to see how traffic to a site varies over time during a particular day in Google Analytics. The dashboard in Analytics provides a quick view of how it varies by day within a date range, but sometimes getting a feel for how traffic is distributed along a [...]
Full StoryGA Notes
GA Notes is a Firefox extension that gives you the facility to add business information to your Google Analytics interface. Adding information relevant to your reports can give them the context needed to more fully understand them. The providers of this utility concede that it would have been more useful if it could add notes [...]
Full StoryWhy Time On Page Is Inaccurate
When considering the time on page that Google Analytics reports, you have to remember that this can be a very inaccurate metric. Let’s first understand how Analytics calculates the time that a user spends on a page.
How Google Analytics Calculates Time On Page
Each time a page on your site loads, Analytics records the timestamp. If [...]
