Google has lately revamped the design and style of its Analytics interface, streamlining quite a few features that were being strewn throughout diverse tabs and building it a more coherent, uncomplicated to use merchandise. In this article is a run by of the most prominent alterations.
New Top rated Navigation and Sidebar
The most major transform involves the orange prime navigation bar and sidebar. All of the report tabs that ended up previously outlined less than a most important tab labelled “Home” (these incorporate the Dashboards, Shortcuts, Intelligence Events and Actual Time tabs) have been streamlined underneath one tab termed “Reporting.” As effectively as this, Genuine Time now appears less than “Standard Reports”, when Intelligence Gatherings, Shortcuts and Dashboards now appear underneath “My Stuff”.
It is also worth noting that the AdWords portion can be identified on the Traffic Sources drop-down menu. This is the place it belongs, though it was moved to its possess section final calendar year during the Google Analytics V5 update.
Oh, and you’ll discover that the major navigation floats as you scroll down the page now also!
Variations To Dashboards
The dashboards also got a facelift and now aspect white widgets more than a pale gray track record. Additional considerably, you now have the ability to change the structure of your dashboards by modifying for example, the size of tables to produce extra home for facts.
On leading of that, there are now two additional Widget possibilities out there: Bars and GEO maps. GEO maps will allow you to produce a widget that includes a place or state and colour code it based on a metric of your own picking, offering you a terrific way to analyse metrics at a glance. Bars are a excellent way to plot facts on a graph.
It goes with out stating that these adjustments will make it less difficult to create extra productive dashboards. Not only that but dashboards are now “emailable”, producing them much easier to share and even far more helpful.
What do you believe of the new enhanced Google Analytics?
