let's collect some requirements/features you'd like to see added to Analytics.
Here are a few as a starter from my side:
- reports per day of the week over multiple months - bigger input field for filters (this is sooooo anoyingly small!) - reprocess option; after adjusting a filter give us the option to reprocess the data with current filter setup. I understand this impacts performance, but I'd rather have this than free signup/more profiles - set administration rights per profile
The filters is a great new feature,, but I need to EXCLUDE subdirectories, not restrict to a subdirectory, I mistakenly did this yesterday --- OOOPS.. hope the data comes back. Anyoneon know how to make this happen until they add an exlude sibdirectory feature?
also I think that a test capability needs to be added so you know if you've messed up or it works.. perhaps "Add ME to exclude" that takes my local IP and add its to the exclude list. Same for testing of subdirectory. have it allow you to enter the site and it will show you the visits in thhe last half hour. Right now we don't have any tracking thats time sensitive like that... would be handy.
Anyways I think its a rocking tool, just needs a little refinement. Oh, on the main pge "filters" would be nice so I could just look at a specifice geographic region. Yes you can zoom in on the report, but it doesn't help when you have 20 flags all overlapping, you just can't zoom in enough, and those flachs just get bigger... some other method is required.
So for example http://www.totalgarage.ca/fruit/apple as the URL in the exclusion? I would think filtering of subdirectories (both inclusion and exclusion) would be common tasks thus on the drop down menu.
The problem for me is how do I test to see if its working... so if thhe above will work, I'll ad it in.
Integrate server log files. I loved urchin, and I feel like analytics has not yet achieved the same depth of information that I was getting from my server logs, even though with the .js code there should be the potential for even more info. Certain information contained in the logs could, if combined with the info collected by the .js, make an absolutely amazing tool, full of lots of great burrowing potential.
> So for example http://www.totalgarage.ca/fruit/apple as the URL in the > exclusion? I would think filtering of subdirectories (both inclusion > and exclusion) would be common tasks thus on the drop down menu.
> The problem for me is how do I test to see if its working... so if > thhe above will work, I'll ad it in.
no.. not the whole url but more something like this: ^.*/fruit/apple/.*
than anything within the subdirectory apple will be excluded..
> let's collect some requirements/features you'd like to see added to > Analytics.
I love the integration with AdWords and Google Checkout. Why not with certain aspects of Webmaster Tools? I'm thinking of the query stats specifically. If we can see the value of AdWords rank in Analytics, why not organic rank? I think at the very least it would give Webmasters an incentive to improve their content, and make it more crawlable to Googlebot and relevant to the user.
In Analysis Options -> Cross Segment Performance -> Content, It would be very helpful to see referring pages that *include* dynamic strings. For many dynamic sites, seeing a referring page such as "showthread.php" is almost useless, because thousands of pages on a site would begin with such a filename. What we need is the string of arguments after the extension. Thank you!
