Extraction time reduced by up to 50% nModal Solutions is pleased to announce the release of the public Beta of V1.3 of Analytics Canvas, which takes full advantage of the new Google Analytics Core Reporting API announced today. We’d like to thank Google for having granted us early access to the API, as it is our goal to always deliver …
We all love Google Analytics- it is a wonderful tool, great features, great price, but if you have a high traffic website, it won’t always give you all your data. So how do you avoid fast access mode? How can you eliminate sampling? You need break your request to Google into smaller chunks, so each request is less than the …
While the best queries might not have lots of data, but have the RIGHT data, sometimes you do have a reporting need that means you want to get a lot of different metrics from Google Analytics all at once. Because Goal completions are tracked as metrics, this is often the case- if you are tracking 10 goals, for example, you …
Last week, Google held its annual Google Analytics Partners Summit at the computer history museum in Mountain View California. This year, Google invited ten of its most accomplished third party application developers to present their solutions to the Partners and demonstrate their applications. Analytics Canvas was proud to have been selected to attend, and we had a great time speaking …
If you have to do reporting of your website traffic sources, you’ll notice that the raw data from Google Analytics is often somewhat, well, raw. For example, you might want to report how many visitors came to your website via Twitter- but google analytics will have multiple sources for this- “twitter.com”, “mobile.twitter.com”, as well as other clients- “twittergadget.com” or “hootsuite.com”. …
We’re very pleased to announce that Analytics Canvas V1.0 is now available! To Our Beta Testers: A big Thank You to you all for helping us get here! We’re grateful for all your feedback. Analytics Canvas is available in a number of different plans: We believe you’ll find one that gives you the extra Google Analytics data crunching power you …
ETL stands for “Extract, Transform and Load”. ETL is a key process in the business intelligence and data warehousing arena- it’s all about automating data movement and building repeatable, robust processes that take raw data, clean it, fix it, enrich it, and then load it into a location where it can be easily queried and analyzed. The opposite of ETL …
Google Analytics is being used by some very large websites. The result is that there is a lot of data, and one of the realities of tracking a high traffic website with Google Analytics is that often data will be returned as a statistical sample, rather than exact metrics. Ask for too much data and you will get an estimate. …
While Google analytics is a great way to collect data about web traffic, there is lots of data in other places that you probably need to be looking at too. Where is it? It’s in databases and files. in that SQL Server database that marketing uses to track all its promotions in that MS Access database over in sales where …
Google Analytics data is incredibly valuable stuff. But there is a way to make it radically more useful. Combine it with other data, from outside Google Analytics. If you are not doing this now, then using data that is external to Google analytics will bring your “Analytics Game” to the next level. If you are doing it, push it further. …
As we’re testing the Alpha version of our new product Analytics Canvas, it strikes me how well Google understands the importance of data. Even better, they understand the importance giving access to data widely. While they provide fantastic tools in Google analytics, and keep expanding the platform, (witness some of the new features just released), they also realize that they …
Whew. Don’t mind the mess, the place is still a bit under construction. Analytics Canvas is a brand new way to get at your Googles Analytics data. It uses the Google GData API for analytics, and it lets you pull data from multiple accounts and multiple profiles. But even more importantly, it brings you new tools to transform your data- …