Compare DIFFERENT Sites with Google Analytics?

Hello.

Is it possible to compare one site I have in Google Analytics with another site?

Currently, I have found it possible to only compare different metrics from a single site (for example: visits VS page views, visits VS bounce rate, etc).

Regards!

 

There are comparable Analytics sites that have many different features, in real time, and have features that are better than Google. But yet others are either heavily ad-supported and/or not free. Google: Top 10 Analytics sites.

 

Yeah, I don't want to trade G. Analytic's functionality and reliability for another company that may coma and go everytime or make it's services paid.

So I can not compare different sites' performance in Google Analytics; only different time periods for the same site?

 

No,its not possible.

 

Google Analytics offers full access to all your data thru an open API, and you can access the data and download it into a spreadsheet or db for reporting any way you want. You can use their code samples and build your own, use a partially-free service like YouCalc, an open source Excel addin (Excellent Analytics), or an inexpensive product like Nextanalytics for Excel.
API info:
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataDeveloperGuide.html
Product info:
http://www.google.com/analytics/apps/results

 

maybe you can get analytics data via API and compare

 

You can do that. In fact I use it on my web-sites to compare their stats. I put two Google tracking on each site. One is for current site, and one is for all sites.
Here's one of my site sample: www.web-directory-plus.com (The Analytics tag is right below Body tag. That's the new Asynchronous Tracking method...)

And from there set the variable to..
_gaq.push(['b._setDomainName', 'none']);
_gaq.push(['b._setAllowLinker', true]);

That way you can track multi domains. Then just set custom report to get the stats you need.
Or in Analytics, you can go to "visitors" -> "Network properties" -> "hostnames" to get some stats for different domain that you have

 

That sounds too complicated to do. I'm just gonna close my eyes to that and accept that you can't compare different sites in Google Analytics. At least not easily.