Today at the Google Analytics User Conference in San Francisco, we shared a look at a new version of Google Analytics. We’ve also reached out to a small group of Analytics users to participate in the testing. If you’re part of this group you’ll see a link to the new version in your Analytics account. We’re starting small, and we’ll gradually roll the new version out to everyone.
In case some of you didn't see it, here's a couple screenshots of the new GA interface: [marketingsutra.com...]
Stanley Brown
12:12 pm on Apr 21, 2011 (gmt 0)
How to get new google analytic version
viggen
12:16 pm on Apr 21, 2011 (gmt 0)
...hmm i have that for at least two weeks, (little text saying try new on top right), same issue with adsense new interface, very slow thats why i switched back right away...
Stanley Brown
9:41 am on Apr 23, 2011 (gmt 0)
How to get new google analytic version
Alexei
11:42 pm on Apr 23, 2011 (gmt 0)
Stanley Brown,
April 20, 2011
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.
When Google was strictly a search engine, having Google analytics made sense,
Nowadays, I am less and less comfortable with GA,
I am curious, do the majors still use GA, I see the code less an less when viewing the html source of Majors
netmeg
7:33 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
I'm perfectly comfortable with GA.
I'm not perfectly comfortable with the new GA. Spent a little time in it, and while it's somewhat prettier than the old, two important losses mean I will be sticking to the old version as long as they let me:
- When you do a date comparison they removed the red or green percentage changed. Why on earth would they do that? That's one of the main things you wanna see?
- Can no longer export to PDF. My clients don't want spreadsheets. Spreadsheets make their eyes glaze over. They hire ME to look at spreadsheets. They want PDfrickin'Fs.
There's probably other things I don't like, but those two were so monumental I went no further.
Alexei
7:53 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
>>> I'm not perfectly comfortable with the new GA.
What about the similarity between the new GA and your Google Profile. Don't you like it too? Or, say, in severals months from now you'll be able to +1 referral sites. How cool is that? A PDF export? Who cares - a share-it-on-Groupon button will serve the purpose.
netmeg
7:57 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
Hunh?
Alexei
8:04 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
Opps, I did't add some grin/irony smiles to the message. Same here - I switched back to the old GA.
scooterdude
10:24 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
There are threads on this forum that ring alarm bells in my head, this combined with confirmation from the horses mouth that they are experimenting with certain technologies that can only be implemented with access to plentiful analytics data
Would you tell me the seam of keywords that consistently turn into joy for you? think about that
Obviously, you'd then say its one thing to know the keywords tha glow, and tis another for me to rank for them :)
Perhaps , you might even suggest that, there is no way I could develop enough sites to compete for this traffic ,
Anyway, tis just a mild ich, can't mean anything
koan
10:48 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
I'm playing with it right now and it's not very good looking, it looks like a previous version of the old one, a bit clunky in my opinion. One thing I am glad to see changed is the numerical date format. It's always confusing for non Americans to use month-day-year, instead of the more logical year-month-day or day-month-year. At least right now they use word abbreviation like Feb 1, 2011, which is clearer than 2/1/2011. I'm with Netmeg on the "compare dates" thing, clear percentages with red/green colors are fundamental to any comparisons.
