Google Analytics Gets a Makeover

Google has lately revamped the style and design of its Analytics interface, streamlining numerous options that ended up strewn throughout various tabs and generating it a more coherent, uncomplicated to use item. Right here is a run by way of of the most notable variations.  

New Best Navigation and Sidebar 

The most considerable alter includes the orange best navigation bar and sidebar. All of the report tabs that had been beforehand outlined below a major tab labelled “Home” (these involve the Dashboards, Shortcuts, Intelligence Events and Real Time tabs) have been streamlined below a person tab called “Reporting.” As properly as this, True Time now seems below “Standard Reports”, although Intelligence Functions, Shortcuts and Dashboards now seem below “My Stuff”.

It is also well worth noting that the AdWords portion can be observed on the Targeted visitors Sources fall-down menu. This is in which it belongs, whilst it was moved to its very own section very last calendar year throughout the Google Analytics V5 update.  

Oh, and you will notice that the best navigation floats as you scroll down the webpage now too! 

Changes To Dashboards

The dashboards also obtained a facelift and now aspect white widgets above a pale grey qualifications. Extra drastically, you now have the means to alter the layout of your dashboards by altering for illustration, the size of tables to make extra space for facts.   

On prime of that, there are now two a lot more Widget solutions readily available: Bars and GEO maps. GEO maps permits you to produce a widget that contains a state or condition and color code it based mostly on a metric of your own deciding on, offering you a great way to analyse metrics at a glance. Bars are a top-quality way to plot information on a graph.  

It goes without the need of stating that these changes will make it less difficult to produce a lot more productive dashboards. Not only that but dashboards are now “emailable”, earning them much easier to share and even far more useful.  

What do you assume of the new enhanced Google Analytics?