Avoiding sampling in Google Analytics for your year end reporting

James StandenAnalytics Canvas Tool, Avoiding sampling, Google Analytics API

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% …

Analytics Canvas at the Google Analytics Summit 2012

James StandenAnalytics Canvas Tool, Google Analytics API, Google Analytics Premium

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 …

Analytics Canvas V1.4 Released with Multi Channel Funnel export

James StandenAnalytics Canvas Tool, Google Analytics API, Google Analytics Premium

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 …

Analytics Canvas V1.3 Beta released- Using Google Analytics API V3.0

James StandenAnalytics Canvas Tool, Google Analytics API

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 …

How to avoid Google Analytics fast access mode

James StandenAnalytics Canvas Tool, Avoiding sampling, Google Analytics API

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 …

Google Analytics Premium- Showing the value of data

James StandenGoogle Analytics API, Google Analytics Data, Google Analytics Premium

The interwebs are a-buzz today with the announcement by Google that there is now a Premium, paid version of their web analytics product. Google Analytics premium offers a number of key advantages. The service guarantees in the form of SLAs, the more formalised arrangements with certified partners for support, attribution analytics, but perhaps most importantly, more data and less sampling. …

Is it your traffic changing- or how Google Analytics Tracks it?

James StandenAnalytics, Google Analytics API, Google Analytics Data

Google Analytics is a fantastic web analytics tool- and it is improving constantly. One result of improvements and evolution, however, is that how data is collected and stored changes, and can change your metrics. Usually these step changes are subtle- in certain cases, depending on your traffic and situation they could be earth shifting. While these changes can sometimes be …

Combining Google Analytics data with external sources – the next level of analytics

James StandenAnalytics Canvas Tool, Google Analytics API

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. …

Google Analytics API Data export – empowering analysis

James StandenAnalytics Canvas Tool, Google Analytics API

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 …