Three Simple But Useful FireFox Hacks For Google Analytics
This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who is a SEO consultant.
For most people blog traffic and search analytics is done with help of Google Analytics which is quite understandable because it is free and really advanced.
You can get really in-depth traffic analysis with the tool or, if you don’t want to go onto any geeky details, you can just see your traffic sources and keyword referrals.
This post will show you three simple Google Analytics hacks you will love! To try two of the following tips, make sure you have Greasemonkey installed.
1. Export Your Report to Google Docs and Share them easily! (Greasemonkey)
This Greasemonkey script exports up to 10000 rows of Google Analytics data to Google Docs and thus allows a handy option to save, organize and share your reports!
2. See Your Unusual Traffic (Greasemonkey)
Here a cool Greasemonkey script that allows you to see referrals that have sent you unusual traffic:
- Referring sites with higher 50% traffic over the last 3 days;
- Referring sites appearing in the last 3 days;
- Referring sites with lower 50% traffic over the last 3 days:
3. Check Your Traffic for the Current day with One Click of a Mouse (Bookmarklet)
Are you obsessed with your search analytics which makes you check your current traffic again and again? If yes, you will love the tip!
Now, to see your traffic and referrals for the current day you need to make at least three clicks but with this handy bookmarklet generator you will need only one!
Just provide your Google Analytics ID and drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar:
I hope you will have find these firefox hacks for Google Analytics pretty interesting. Do give it a try and let me know your opinion about it.
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April 16, 2010
4:05 pm
Beautiful tips Ann!! Its very tough to find such features and compile it into an interesting post, but I nowadays feel that Getclicky and Chrome are better than Ganalytics and Firefox, but after seeing this I may consider both of them again, only for the above features.
April 16, 2010
5:28 pm
I don’t make use of analytics as much as I should. But I think that it has a lot of plusses if you are really serious about seo and blogging.
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April 16, 2010
7:51 pm
Like the bookmarkelet tip.. You gotta luv what greasemonkey and scripts can let you do.. awesome.
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April 16, 2010
8:40 pm
Brilliant Tops Anne, I’ve been using Google Analytics for ages and these GreaseMonkey tips are going to help out quite a bit, thanks for the advice
Karen @ Blazing Minds´s last blog ..How To Earn Money By Adding Videos on Your Blog With GoViral
April 16, 2010
11:59 pm
Trying to dump Firefox at the moment though, finding Chrome much easier and there are more & more SEO tools becoming available. BUT got to admit combined with GreaseMonkey it makes an awesome tool.
April 17, 2010
12:05 am
These are great tips. The more info you have to arm yourself with, the better.
April 17, 2010
1:46 am
I’m not a current GA user, but will save this in case.
What’s considered, “unusual” traffic”?
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April 18, 2010
1:26 pm
Hey Dennis, “unusual traffic” refers to some recent traffic spikes and/or drops. For example, if some URL suddenly starts sending you more traffic than ever.
April 17, 2010
2:55 pm
Well I do not use google analytics to track my traffic, I use statcounter. Statcounter is easy to use and can understand everything easily.
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April 18, 2010
9:53 am
good post, there are heaps of addon’s u can use for firefox, i don’t use google analytics personally, rather statcounter. There are a good set of apps like:
Google analytics monitor
GA? – Is Analytics installed ect.
Good post, keep it up.
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April 18, 2010
12:24 pm
Loved the last hack, only because it is the best one ever.
Many of bloggers are addicted to stats and this is the way to cool them down. Thanks for the awesome recommendations. I will check them out soon
Gautam Hans @ Blog Godown´s last blog ..You Can’t Do Everything…. If You Want Everything Done Right!
April 18, 2010
2:43 pm
3rd tip is the best for me…i am an avid analytics user and check my account very often..this will save my lot of time
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April 18, 2010
11:22 pm
This post just hit my head! Because I’m learning the power of analytics now since Google made an analytics class last month in my country
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April 19, 2010
6:50 pm
This is a simple hack but certainly a very helpful one. Will give it a try later.
Thank you for sharing this.
See you around.
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April 20, 2010
9:06 pm
very handy hack really needed one .. said true about checking stats and organic trafiic..and this one is the best .
now trying it.
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April 21, 2010
9:23 pm
Very useful tips!
Up until now if I wanted to check my stats for the same day, I simply changed my timezone a few hours forward, but your tip seems better
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April 24, 2010
10:32 am
very handy hacks
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