Today is the last day that webmasters can use the old Google Analytics interface.
In case you haven’t quite found your way around the new interface I wanted to remind readers about the Google Analytics tutorial we released last month as well as the second part where we answered your questions.
If there are any more questions, now is the time to ask!
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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Booooo. I actually liked the old analytics better. The new ones arent as accurate. My server has its own analytics built in and reports much better info than the new Google version. For example, I get totally different keyword searches. The old Google Analytics keywords matched my servers keywords. Obviously Google is pulling different info, possibly from their searches only, and my server picks up ANY keyword searches. OK, maybe its not bad. I now have more data, more info, and more keywords to crunch.
Regardless, Google is still quick and easy to use.
It is a shame to see the old interface go. I prefer it over the new one. I find it much easier and faster to find my what I need in the old interface. I can just take a glance at it and get a good overview of my site. When you have close to 50 websites, this saves a lot of time. I wish Google would reconsider and let the old interface remain an option.
I greatly dislike the new interface.. Luckily I’m almost finished with my own analytics platform. It doesn’t do even close to as many things as Google’s however it gives me accurate reports on whether people came from Google CPC, or Yahoo CPC. It also tells me if people came from the first page on google.com or the 3rd page of google.co.uk. Oh also it gives me accurate stats on conversions! Really it gives me all the stats I tend to track.. I guess I’ll leave analytics on if I want to check monitor type and geo location settings.
I will miss the old interface. Even though I liked new one from the first look, still i’m using old one, because i’m more used to it, it has more clear reports by hours and some other are easier to use also.
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