Measuring Google Analytics goals with timeline

In Google Analytics, we face the problem of tracking leads of each and every landing page. You can find it difficult to find out how many goals are achieved and what time each goal has been attained etc. But this does not mean that we cannot use Analytics to find out these specific data. It is easier to generate all the above data by setting up custom reporting metrics and dimensions for better analysis. In this blog post, we will see how we can create custom reports to find out the total...

New AdWords Reports in Google Analytics: Impressive as usual

Google has announced new AdWords report sets in Google Analytics that will help view more specific and detailed reports. These new reports can offer more insight on what happens after a visitor clicks on your ads. The previous report sets, inspite of their advanced and detailed reporting do not offer this particular facility. But the new reports provide additional data, like actual search query etc. which were not available in Analytics previously. In the upcoming weeks, Google will be...

Asynchronous Tracking Migration Part- II

In our previous post,[Asynchronous Tracking Code Migration from ga.js.] we discussed why Asynchronous tracking code is important and what are the methods to execute the migration process We are going to discuss some more of such methods in this post. Recently Google has announced that it will consider the site speed as a factor for the SERP in their official Analytics blog [ http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/04/making-web-faster.html ], so how about considering Asynchronous tracking code to...

Google Analytics Landing Page Report – How to Make The Most Out of It?

Before we enter into the topic, I would like to ask you a question - Which Google Analytics report you feel will be helpful for analyzing your Landing Pages? I guess many of you will answer - “Top landing pages report”. This is maybe because we are attuned to viewing the top landing pages report often and we tend to think that they offer the best analysis. Not really. The Landing Pages of a website is nothing but the pages through which people enter the website. So it is very...

Asynchronous Tracking Code Migration from ga.js.

Google introduced Asynchronous Tracking code for all users in the setup panel for the following reasons. Faster tracking code load times for your web pages due to improved browser execution Enhanced data collection and accuracy Elimination of tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript hasn't fully loaded The _gaq object is what makes the asynchronous syntax possible. It acts as a queue, which is a first-in,first-out data structure that collects API calls until ga.js is...