Google Analytics is a powerful, free tool. Because it isn’t charged by account, and because there are lots of good reasons to create multiple accounts, often power users can find themselves with more than one. Sometimes lots more than one. The web front-end lets you look at data in one profile at a time, but if you want Google Analytics …
There are lots of good reasons to pull Google Analytics data into spreadsheets or databases for reporting and analysis. You can get rich details not available in the web interface, you can blend it with internal data sources, you can extract large volumes of unsampled data in bulk, and so much more. For these reasons, Google Analytics APIs have been …
Progress! Round one of the latest Analytics Canvas beta came to a close last week. Testers kicked around the new Data Studio connector and helped us to get it into really good shape. Round 2 is MUCH bigger, featuring: ✓ Analytics Canvas Cloud Automation ✓ Google Search Console ✓ Google Data Studio ✓ Cloud File I/O Analytics Canvas Cloud Automation …
If you’ve recently started using Analytics Canvas or are just beginning to explore its potential, then these tips and tricks might be helpful to you. In this blog post I’m going to show you how to get around Analytics Canvas, with just 5 tips and tricks for beginners – which hopefully will help you get better results. Tip 1. Get …
Sampling in Google Analytics helps speed up the response from GA, but it can serious affect the accuracy of the data you are looking at. Fortunately, Google Analytics has a great API, and with Analytics Canvas you can use a visual interface to get at your data, know when sampling is happening, and in many cases eliminate it. In our …
Tableau Workbook File (TWB) is an XML document. It contains the information about your sheets, dashboards and stories. The TWB file references a data source file such as Excel or TDE, and when you save the TWB file, it is linked to the source. The most important thing to remember about TWB files is that they don’t contain any data …
The beauty of analyzing conversion funnels in Analytics Canvas is that you don’t have to wait for the data to be collected after you’ve set up your goals. You can create any funnel you want. Start by identifying your biggest funnel. Look at how the majority of visitors end up on your site: where they came from, and where they …
We’re excited to announce the latest release of Analytics Canvas, and to be doing it here in Las Vegas at the Tableau Conference 2015. We are here with 12,000 other Tableau fanatics getting ready for the major Tableau event of the year. We’re looking forward to showing off our Data Kung FU, and to meeting lots of new data folks- …
Do you often find yourself spending hours manually extracting data cutting and pasting to create reports, and then have to repeat the whole thing, time and time again? Consolidating data across sources, crunching numbers and creating reports can be a tedious process. Nobody likes doing the same things over and over. How much better it would be if you could simply automate …
Have you heard of referral spam? You may have seen it in your Google Analytics. It junks up your reports. It creates a lot of noise in your data. It wastes your time. It skews your online marketing results. Referrer spam is not a new phenomenon, but it has taken a serious turn this year. Just look at this chart …
We are pleased to announce that Analytics Canvas V1.7.6 is now available. This release has a number of new features which greatly expand what is possible with Analytics Canvas. Referral Spam Detection We now have a powerful new ability to detect referral spam- and if you can detect it you can eliminate it from your reports. With a dynamic filter …
Every now and then, the Analytics Canvas team will go over the features that our users – you guys! – frequently use. And, what we find is that it is often the case the majority of you will use just a small number of the features available to you. Now, this hurts our developers’ feelings! They think it’s rather a …