Comments on: Google Analytics: Still Crap http://www.psfk.com/2005/11/google_analytic_1.html Ideas & Trends Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:24:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andrew Hitchcock http://www.psfk.com/2005/11/google_analytic_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-3241 Andrew Hitchcock Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-3241 <p>Well, the 12 hour delay doesn't bother me that much. If it updated much faster, I would waste even more time looking at stats :).</p> <p>That said, I do feel the interface could use some work. It is kind of slow going between different views and the back button doesn't work. After I drill down to say, a certain city, it is hard to get back up to just the region, the back button doesn't seem to work. It would be nice if they could make the back button work and get some better navigation on the pages, besides just the things on left. Also, I don't have any goals, so it would be nice if I could better customize the views that are shown. I am more interesting in search queries, referrals, and visitor stats. I'll look around the options, but I thought you could only pick from one of the three default views.</p> Well, the 12 hour delay doesn’t bother me that much. If it updated much faster, I would waste even more time looking at stats :).

That said, I do feel the interface could use some work. It is kind of slow going between different views and the back button doesn’t work. After I drill down to say, a certain city, it is hard to get back up to just the region, the back button doesn’t seem to work. It would be nice if they could make the back button work and get some better navigation on the pages, besides just the things on left. Also, I don’t have any goals, so it would be nice if I could better customize the views that are shown. I am more interesting in search queries, referrals, and visitor stats. I’ll look around the options, but I thought you could only pick from one of the three default views.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.psfk.com/2005/11/google_analytic_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-3242 Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-3242 <p>12 hours is a lot less time than it took you to fix the link to Google "/analystics"</p> 12 hours is a lot less time than it took you to fix the link to Google “/analystics”

]]> By: Piers Fawkes http://www.psfk.com/2005/11/google_analytic_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-3243 Piers Fawkes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-3243 <p>Link corrected - apologies.</p> <p>OK. About the time thing - if a site that was probably built in somone's garage can give me almost instant results, why can't a site that was built by a company created in someone's garage a few years ago? </p> <p>12 hours is really 24 hours - by the time data is available, we'v e all gone to bed. It's just not 2005.</p> <p>The PSFK sites publish over 12 times a day and it's important to see the interaction between PSFK content and other sites right away. </p> Link corrected – apologies.

OK. About the time thing – if a site that was probably built in somone’s garage can give me almost instant results, why can’t a site that was built by a company created in someone’s garage a few years ago?

12 hours is really 24 hours – by the time data is available, we’v e all gone to bed. It’s just not 2005.

The PSFK sites publish over 12 times a day and it’s important to see the interaction between PSFK content and other sites right away.

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