Are you spending huge amounts of time just getting the data ready, rather than actually doing analysis? You can eliminate mindless work by automating your data extraction using Analytics Canvas Automation Wizard. Imagine coming in on Monday morning and being able to get right into analysis- rather than first having to spend hours or days exporting, cleaning and combining data …
Today Google announced 40 new dimensions and metrics that are now available in the Google Analytics API, and we’re pleased to release Analytics Canvas V1.6.3 that provides access to all of them. Our clients expect us to keep up with the API in all respects, and we’re proud to be able to same day release new features thanks to being …
Googles announcement at Google IO that session and hit data was going to be available in Google BigQuery marks a significant milestone in Google Analytics relentless drive into the Enterprise analytics market. UPDATE: Check out how Analytics Canvas is the tool for BigQuery GA Premium integration with SQL Generation. Google mentions a number of scenarios that become possible with this …
Sampling can drastically reduce the accuracy of data queried from Google Analytics, but by using the API in many cases it can be eliminated. Google Analytics is clearly an enterprise capable analytics platform. As higher and higher traffic websites take advantage of its features, Google has put in place some limits on how much data can be included in a …
Funnel analysis is a key part of ecommerce analytics, and being able to understand how your visitors move through your cart and checkout process (and where they leave) is a key part of optimizing any website. Google Analytics has some good functionality in this area, letting you see how many users are moving through your funnels for a given date …
We are pleased to announce the latest release of Analytics Canvas, with new features and upgrades that provide even more powerful access to your analytics data. Google Analytics Cost upload and Bing Ads API connectivity Advanced funnel Analysis Enhanced GA profile management for those accessing hundreds of profiles at once Advanced query partitioning to avoid sampling Cost Upload into Google …
Google Analytics is a powerful tool, and provides a wide range of excellent functionality right in the web interface. But Google knows it hasn’t provided everything. That’s why they created the Google Analytics APIs. Many readers might be using an excel based plugin to pull data using the API directly into a spreadsheet for manual manipulation. Often this is a …
Are you working on year end reporting? If you use Google Analytics, and had more than 500,000 visitors this year and want to use an advanced segment in your reporting (and you should use segments, because segments rock) then it means it is also time to deal with sampling. A query trying to see Non-paid search by source ignores 94% …
Last week in Mountainview at the Computer science history museum, Google analytics certified partners, Google Analytics Premium customers, Googlers and a select group of five software vendors attended the annual Google Analytics Summit. Analytics Canvas was proud to have been invited again this year by Google to present our latest version and participate. This was a particularly exciting summit, as …
Today Google announced that the Multi-channel funnel (MCF) data within Google analytics is now available to export with the API. And today we are releasing V1.4 of Analytics Canvas, with full support. What does this mean? It means you can now understand your conversions and how people are getting to your site like never before. It also means now you …
While usually the most important and valuable analysis is ad-hoc, and done by an analyst, very often there is the need for scheduled exports and reporting of Google Analytics data. Google Analytics provides some automation capabilities for custom reports, for a limited number of dimensions and metrics, but of course the results are subject to sampling (fast access mode). The …
Mark Twain popularised the expression “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics”. It is a phrase that I think reminds us that when working with numbers, we have to be careful with the analysis we do. Statistical sampling is a very valid way to come up with accurate, useful measurement from very large sets of data. …