Comments on: Using Google Analytics to Compare Traffic from Different Periods of Time

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:41:31 +0000

I’m curious exactly *how many* page views you receive per day.

Definitely you have illustrated how to compare time periods and how to use Google Analytics but you have cropped out the amount of page views on the side of the graph.

By: Cher

Cher — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:28:23 +0000

Hey Darren! I’ve been using Statcounter to track the visitors. Can i use google analytics for the same website? Will there be any problem if i use two traffic counters at the same time.

By: Anne Maiden

Anne Maiden — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:48:05 +0000

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if it was possible to get the traffic for every friday from 2 pm to 5 pm. I have not figured it out yet and need help if it is at all possible

By: zool

zool — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:39:12 +0000

OO.. I don’t know that google analytics can do this..
It can be used to compare my traffic ..
good tips

By: Robert MacEwan

Robert MacEwan — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:44:57 +0000

@rich-page, While I don’t agree with all 10 of your suggestions, mainly the 10th, the others were on target in my eyes.

@Darren, Nice write-up on using Google Analytics in a more meaningful way. This article directly addresses the 10th suggestion from Rich – support.

By: XiaoRouWan

XiaoRouWan — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:42:45 +0000

Thanks for the great tips, Darren, especially on the compare period. I been using for months and like the others I didn’t know that Google Analytics could do this. (^ o ^)

By: Chester's Clean House

Chester's Clean House — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:14:22 +0000

Thanks for the insight. I am still trying to learn the new analytics interface now that they shut the old one down. It is a very powerful tool and can’t wait to see what other tricks you might post about. I guess I still have a lot to learn.

By: Technobuzz.net

Technobuzz.net — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:24:10 +0000

Wow, this is really cool.

http://www.technobuzz.net

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:51:28 +0000

Thank you for this Darren!

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:17:51 +0000

Good post! I’ve never really understood Google analytics and this helps.

By: rich page

rich page — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:46:27 +0000

This is a great post about a great feature of Google Analytics, and I am a big fan of Google Analytics. I decided to be different and actually help improve it. I created the 10 ten things that need fixing for google analytics and made a blog post for it:
http://rich-page.com/web-analytics/google-analytics-10-missing-pieces/

I would love to know what you all think. Especially Google?

Rich Page

By: Online Money Making Forum

Online Money Making Forum — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:12:37 +0000

Yes, Google Analytics really provides good statistics. Before Analytics, we were were actually depending on software like awstats, etc which is not that accurate.

After adding a code snippet from Analytics, we started relying on it very much.

There are many good features within Analytics! We especially like the detailed demographic feature as well as features that show us more about serps

By: Buxr.com

Buxr.com — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:05:36 +0000

Great info Darren.. I’ve been doing this for about a month now, and it give you real insight about traffic changes.

The real question for me is, when do I find time to do all this analysis?

By: Shine

Shine — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:58:03 +0000

Darren you do read your readers’ minds… I am actually thinking about writing you an email asking your advice on statistics. The thing is I’m using a couple of them, mainly including the google analytics as well as the website host (Blue Host in my case). What I am aware of is the trend is more or less the same but the figures are quite different – and I don’t know which one should I use and whether there is any discrepencies on the definition…

Thanks for this very very very useful post with all the tips. Keep learning…

By: brian

brian — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:16:39 +0000

Wow. I’ve been using it since Beta and never thought to try this. Very cool. Seems I should be spending more time learning all the features of GA.

By: Don@AffiliateWatcher

Don@AffiliateWatcher — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:17:45 +0000

Great tips Darren. I especially like Google Analytics to review my content and SERPS position on different search engines. I find it amazing the huge differences between Yahoo, Google, Ask, MSN, AOL, etc. What’s even more amazing are the keywords people find my site by.

You can also analyse you content by looking at the Bounce rate and Time On Page. That will let you know just how good your content really is.

Don

By: Conservatory TV

Conservatory TV — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:57:11 +0000

Darren

Thanks for the tip.. I have just added google analytics to my site

It was easier than I thought it would be !

Matthew

By: OpenSourceMarketer

OpenSourceMarketer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:53:25 +0000

Comparing month to month is a good trick, but I hadn’t thought to bring that concept across to a per search engine comparison. Thanks for that idea. I will definitely do some trend reporting with that and see what happens, especially before and after any major changes to the site or promotions I might be offering.

Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:07:49 +0000

I can’t believe I didn’t know about this feature! This is why you’re the Pro Blogger!

By: marquis

marquis — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:33:02 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I’m going to use this more often.

http://alltalksports.wordpress.com/