Google Analytics Gets a Makeover

Google has lately revamped the design of its Analytics interface, streamlining a number of functions that ended up strewn across distinct tabs and earning it a far more coherent, uncomplicated to use product or service. Here is a operate by means of of the most popular modifications.  

New Best Navigation and Sidebar 

 

The most substantial transform will involve the orange top rated navigation bar and sidebar. All of the report tabs that have been beforehand detailed underneath a primary tab labelled “Home” (these involve the Dashboards, Shortcuts, Intelligence Situations and Genuine Time tabs) have been streamlined below one tab referred to as “Reporting.” As effectively as this, Actual Time now seems under “Standard Reports”, while Intelligence Functions, Shortcuts and Dashboards now show up beneath “My Stuff”.

It’s also well worth noting that the AdWords portion can be identified on the Traffic Resources drop-down menu. This is where by it belongs, while it was moved to its have portion very last 12 months throughout the Google Analytics V5 update.  

Oh, and you will see that the top rated navigation floats as you scroll down the page now also! 

Alterations To Dashboards

The dashboards also got a facelift and now characteristic white widgets about a pale gray track record. Additional drastically, you now have the capacity to change the structure of your dashboards by transforming for example, the sizing of tables to generate additional room for information.   

On major of that, there are now two far more Widget possibilities obtainable: Bars and GEO maps. GEO maps will allow you to create a widget that has a state or state and color code it centered on a metric of your individual choosing, supplying you a good way to analyse metrics at a glance. Bars are a excellent way to plot details on a graph.  

It goes without the need of indicating that these changes will make it much easier to make more powerful dashboards. Not only that but dashboards are now “emailable”, building them less difficult to share and even extra helpful.  

What do you assume of the new enhanced Google Analytics?