I know there is a "It's here !" thread but I think that functionality discussion is a whole different issue. After playing around with it, I discovered : Following user's habits like navigation, recency, loyalty has become much easier, and is definitely showed my websites in a somewhat different light. This data became much more accessible and grouped for easier examination. It had taught me that some sites have really weird usage patterns, and navigation and bounce rates change dramatically depending on the freshness of site's content. Bad thing : 1) I can't find the hourly statistics thingy . 2 ) The graph appears to be able to display only one statistic at a time, but # Visits # Page Views # Pages/Visit # Avg. Time on Site # Bounce Rate # % New Visits statistics are available on the graph , just not multiple selection. And due to the behavior of the dashboard, the graphs cannot be set in different modes. (I might be wrong, maybe someone managed to) 3)The default generalization of the referring sources graph is just wrong. It currently shows by default the SE/Direct/Reffer pie chart. For me it's useless. Considering the amount of pageviews, this graph will ALWAYS look the same unless a site gets hit but Digg/Stumbleupon/unnatural promotion. The good part about the old pie chart was the ability to see those 3%-4% referrers that were contributed by some blogs/forum postings you could go visit right away. (Don't get me wrong, the data is still availible) 4) The unnecessarily large geo-location interface. It's very important to see where the visitors come from... only when you see other data. And the more the better . The Geo location interface is neat, it has some charting options, geo-resolution options, and a HUGE !@#$ing map. How huge ? (removed PV numbers and dates btw) It looks cool on my monitor, but I'd really rather have additional info next to a slightly smaller map. After all, geo-location is not about where the country actually is .The big map is nice, but putting some info next to it and making smaller would be probably better. The most important thing is the Dashboard, which is pretty much the default control panel of analytics, that you can assemble from the different reports. It doesn't seem to work well, as custom views and resolutions of graphs that were added to the dashboard, appear to be resetting to default parameters (such the visitors graph, which resets to Visitors from the Pageviews mode it was added in, or the map, which resets to lower resolution) After looking at the product's tour I understood that Google is aiming at real ecommerce sites and not content sites with this product, and it probably integrates very well with the Websites Optimizer (also a non-content product), both being conversion-centric tools. Just look at the new tour http://services.google.com/analytics/tour/index_en-GB.html Hope this helps, and if anyone has solutions to the downsides I mentioned - please enlighten me Cheers
I miss the hourly stuff, they may add it back in as its a good metric. Ie, if your sites busyest at 3-4am, and your business operates between 9am-5pm, it might be wort starting the day a little earlier like 8am to cope with orders (from a commerce perspective) Im still waiting to get the updated account, so it will probably be a while longer. I dont understand the generalized traffic pie chart either? Whats up with that? Though what is nice, if you dont like it.. just remove it! Pierce
I can't believe the metric was completely removed the hourly metric functionality! I thought I just needed to get acquainted with the software a bit more to eventually find it.
new version of google analitics is greater than before. it gives more information. you can also read http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=324427 . it's a discussion about google analitcs new interface