Monday, September 27, 2010

Updated GA Evolution - Now with Weekly Data, Goals, Optional Metrics

Over the last few weeks, I have made some improvements to GA Evolution. The functional changes were pushed last Friday and this morning I added a quick YouTube Video to the login page to better help show users what the app is all about.

Here are the highlights of the changes:
  1. Improved performance and session handling (faster is better with less errors)
  2. I have included Goal Data which can be reported as either Goal Completions or Goal Conversion Rates
  3. The metrics columns are now optional so users can build the report that they really want
  4. Report data can now be broken out by week besides by month
As always, enjoy and please pass along feedback on the app. 

Link to original GA Evolution post

Link to GAEvolution web app 

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4 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 13, 2010 at 2:12 AM

    Hi Michael

    I have just discovered this today and am still investigating it but first impressions are that it is excellent and something I have been looking for for a long time. Great work.

    A quick question - what is your definition of a week? I work with some companies who use Sunday to Saturday, and others who use Monday to Sunday. Could this become a configurable option?

    Many thanks
    Phil

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  2. GonzaloNovember 13, 2010 at 4:29 AM

    It is not my definition of a week, it is Google's. Google's definition of weeks always starts on a Sunday. I hope they fix it soon as well because I work with plenty of European websites who start the week with Monday.

    Please give me a rating for my app here.
    http://www.google.com/analytics/apps/about?app_id=165001

    Thanks!

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  3. UnknownNovember 13, 2010 at 4:31 AM

    It is not my definition of a week, it is Google's. Google's definition of weeks always starts on a Sunday. I hope they fix it soon as well because I work with plenty of European websites who start the week with Monday.

    Please give me a rating for my app here.
    http://www.google.com/analytics/apps/about?app_id=165001

    Thanks!

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  4. UnknownNovember 13, 2010 at 5:20 AM

    That's a shame but I suspected might be the case. The only response on this that I can find from Google is here:

    http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=637119fe3276c2c5&hl=en

    so there are no signs that there is anything in the pipeline unfortunately.

    Could you add an option to download data by day instead of just week and month? Even if this had a limited date range (say five weeks at a time?) it would be very useful and save a lot of time in changing the week range offline as well as helping looking at historic changes in activity over short time scales such as after an email campaign.

    It seems there are a lot of people who need to change the data range so a tool just dedicated to doing that by crunching the numbers from daily data might be very popular.

    Thanks again, I've posted as rating.

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