Do you want to see more than 140 characters of a Tweet? The new version 7.82.0.0 shows longer tweets. For background, see this: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/upcoming-changes-to-tweets If you want this, just download a new version. It's available to everyone, even the free users. If you already have an installation, you will need to upgrade your Twitter spreadsheets. You [...]
Download the data from public YouTube Channels, Playlists, and Videos. After installing the Excel Addin, click Custom then Click YouTube Data Choose where the data goes to. By default, it will put the data into a worksheet. You can change it later to put it into [...]
During May 2017, Google released a new version of their Adwords interface. You can browse the reports that are now available, as well as the data columns that you can download using the Custom Query option. Data can be used in Excel, Google Data Studio, Power BI, and many other query and reporting tools. [...]
Attended Downloads Watch it working, but you can do other things at the same time. The first is a program that runs outside of Excel and it refreshes your spreadsheets. We call this program "Standalone" and you can install it quite easily. Download NEXT Analytics Standalone here. After you run setup, [...]
After you have purchased Analytics 360, it is very convenient to continue with the interactive dashboards. But sometimes your requests result in sampling conditions (greater than 500,000) sessions. Click the button that appears on your ribbon bar (in Windows), and you can get more detail which query is being sampled. At that point, you need to [...]
This blog describes an easy and free technique to avoid Google Analytics Data Sampling without having to pay for Google Analytics 360 (aka Premium). If you have Premium, it might save you from the two step process described here. Sampled data is wrong data. There's a lot at stake, if you are publishing wrong data! [...]
Main Reason to do Multi-View Analysis It's very common to hit the maximum number of goals that a View supports. Web analysts will create additional Views as new Goals are introduced. They do this because they don't want to delete or re-use old goals because they are still historically relevant. Many people therefore would like [...]
Has your analytics run aground because you've started seeing Google Data Sampling appear? GOOGLE DATA SAMPLING - WHAT IS IT? When a web site experiences more than 500,000 sessions that covers the same time range as what you’re querying, then GA ignores some of your data. Google refers to this “sampled data”. The elimination of [...]
To get the answers we want, sometimes it's desirable to rolled up or aggregate a overly detailed dimension. This can apply to any data source including Google Analytics, PIWIK, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, SQL Queries and more. To demonstrate the value of rolling up detailed dimensions, a good example would be web site referers. Referers [...]
Web analysts must create and maintain reports which show the how well a web site or app is achieving the business' objectives. This sample Google Analytics Goals Report shows goals data for current period, previous period and same period a year ago. This Google Analytics Goals report makes it easy to see if things are improving [...]
