Comments on: Get the Most From Your Google Analytics Dashboard http://www.vancelucas.com/blog/get-the-most-from-your-google-analytics-dashboard/ Web Entrepreneur and PHP5 Guru Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:01:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Merlin15 http://www.vancelucas.com/blog/get-the-most-from-your-google-analytics-dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Merlin15 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:10:24 +0000 http://www.vancelucas.com/?p=250#comment-425 It is only because they are so hard to come by that they are worth so much. , It is only because they are so hard to come by that they are worth so much. ,

]]> By: Dan http://www.vancelucas.com/blog/get-the-most-from-your-google-analytics-dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Dan Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:31:15 +0000 http://www.vancelucas.com/?p=250#comment-70 "The “Visitors Overview” widget is the first thing you want to get rid of. The exact same information is displayed larger above" That's incorrect. The top large graph is visits, the bottom smaller one is Visitors. These are very different figures, for example, sites like compete.com report (though not very well) VISITORS (bottom graph) not visits. “The “Visitors Overview” widget is the first thing you want to get rid of. The exact same information is displayed larger above”

That’s incorrect. The top large graph is visits, the bottom smaller one is Visitors. These are very different figures, for example, sites like compete.com report (though not very well) VISITORS (bottom graph) not visits.

]]> By: Vance Lucas http://www.vancelucas.com/blog/get-the-most-from-your-google-analytics-dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Vance Lucas Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:22:34 +0000 http://www.vancelucas.com/?p=250#comment-69 @Elizabeth As far as I know, there is no way to make your own Google Analytics dashboard widgets. They are more of a way to pull information from different pieces of Google's own stats program into the dashboard in a way you want them displayed so you get a little freedom regarding the look and feel of it. Google does have <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/" rel="nofollow">published API docs</a>, but they appear to deal with the actual tracking javascript code placed on your page and ways to customize reports, data, and track different areas of the website instead of a web services type API that you would be able to use with PHP. @Elizabeth

As far as I know, there is no way to make your own Google Analytics dashboard widgets. They are more of a way to pull information from different pieces of Google’s own stats program into the dashboard in a way you want them displayed so you get a little freedom regarding the look and feel of it.

Google does have published API docs, but they appear to deal with the actual tracking javascript code placed on your page and ways to customize reports, data, and track different areas of the website instead of a web services type API that you would be able to use with PHP.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.vancelucas.com/blog/get-the-most-from-your-google-analytics-dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Elizabeth Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:43:43 +0000 http://www.vancelucas.com/?p=250#comment-68 Thanks for the tip but as I'm new to this tool, are you aware of anyway to plugin in our widgets, since I'm a PHP developer anyways? Does Google have an API to support their tool or are we developers left out in the cold again?! Thanks for the tip but as I’m new to this tool, are you aware of anyway to plugin in our widgets, since I’m a PHP developer anyways?

Does Google have an API to support their tool or are we developers left out in the cold again?!

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