If you’re an enthusiast of “Mad Men” (a television drama about advertising in New York in the 1960s), and Google Analytics, well then you’re probably enjoying the dichotomy that is advertising today: a mix of decades-old media creatives and buys, and c…
This is the first of a new series of intermittent posts by Google Analytics Product Managers – the people leading the prioritization and production of features and improvements to GA. We wanted to add a little color to what you’re seeing and let you kn…
Back in Web Analytics TV episode 8, Cesar Brea asked if there was a way to use Advanced Segments to get performance metrics for a list of target cities. As Cesar Brea pointed out in the post comments, because Google Analytics only returns city names (e…
Chrome version 6.0.472.55 was an incremental update to a new version of Chrome released on September 7 and announced here. There was a bug in the JavaScript engine that reported the wrong type of some JavaScript objects in a very specific case. This ca…
Google Analytics processes huge volumes of data for websites around the world everyday, thanks to Google’s globally renowned infrastructure. While we never stop focusing on system reliability and scalability (here’s an example), we also want to make …
Avinash Kaushik is the Analytics Evangelist here at Google. He is, without a doubt, our toughest, most vocal and valued critic and advisor – we couldn’t be luckier to have him. He reminds me of a younger, more talkative Gandalf, the wizard from the The…
Here’s another example of how complex and useful this product is. In addition to the six conversion and analytics-focused company blogs already in existence, Google is launching another Analytics blog in JAPAC, led by our own Vinoaj Vijeyakumaar, lead …
Google Analytics is very pleased to announce the latest release of the Google Analytics SDK for iOS and Android, which now runs on devices using the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 4. The new version of the SDK is 0.8 (ie. still …
Back in Episode 10 of Web Analytics TV, (32:00), Lisa C from Melbourne asked how to pull a trending report from Google Analytics for the top organic search landing pages. This was such a great question, that we wrote 2 articles and released sample code…
Do you need self-hosted analytics software? In some cases, particularly with intranets and other behind-the-firewall web services, running your own internal analytics application is the only way to access to usage data. In other cases, company or agenc…
Since this week’s launch of Instant Search, we’ve been asked how to track Instant Search in Google Analytics, and in particular, whether it’s possible to see partial Instant Search queries in your reports. You actually don’t need to do anythin…
Are you eager to optimize your conversion rate, but feel a little bit overwhelmed by all of the tools available to help you? Introducing ‘Improving Online Conversions for Dummies’!We have just released a simple, easy to follow mini book, in conjunc…
On the Google Analytics API Team, we’re fascinated with what people create using the Data Export API. You guys come up with some really amazing stuff! Lately, we’ve also been paying a lot of attention to how people use it. We looked at whether t…
Nobody likes to duplicate effort. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s a fact of life. If you want to use Google Analytics, you need to add a JavaScript tracking code to your pages. When you’re ready to verify ownership of your site in other Google products (…
Most every business, including Google’s, starts small. These days, technology is giving businesses even more ways to grow bigger, faster.In a recent series on the Official Google Blog focused on small businesses, a handful of real-life entrepreneurs sh…