As well as the new tracker, Google have made a small but welcome change to the Analytics dashboard. Now, we can get easy visual comparisons of the following metrics:
- Visits
- Pageviews
- Pages/ Visit
- Average Time on Site
- Bounce Rate
- Percentage New Visits
Any two metrics can be viewed on the one graph, or a single metric can be viewed over two time periods.
This is what it looks like:
Google Analytics - Two Metrics
Google Analytics Date Comparison
To use this feature, click on the arrow at the top right corner above the graph and you’ll get access to the dropdown. Once you’ve made your selection, click it again to hide it:
Google analytics - select metrics
At this time it’s limited to only two metrics. But that’s still pretty handy.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Chris Bloczynski // Dec 21, 2007 at 9:05 am
Great article! I’ll stop by more often to see what you’re writing about.
2 David Rogers // Dec 21, 2007 at 11:43 pm
where do you put the analytics code in a wordpress (and cutline!) blog? thanks, David
3 Mark // Dec 23, 2007 at 3:12 am
@Chris, thanks!
@David, you need to put it right before the closing body tag which is Cutline is in the footer.php file. Although you can actually put it anywhere between the body tags, this is the best place because it’s the last code to execute and your analytics stats will show +full+ page views. Small point, but it adds a little accuracy.
4 David Rogers // Jan 13, 2008 at 9:15 am
Thanks Mark - up and running
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