Google Analytics is the most popular and I’d say the best free tool for the internal site stats analysis. I use it myself for most of the projects I run. Recently I’ve come across a few really useful FireFox addons allowing for a quicker access to Google Analytics and its better usability.
Check Google Analytics for the Current Day
Strangely, Google Analytics shows stats for the past 30 days instead of the current day. I say “strangely” because most often webmasters check their stats daily and what they really want to see is their most recent traffic numbers and sources.
This browser bookmarklet corrects this bug – the only disadvantage that it will work for one site report only. With this browser bookmarklet generator you can create a few bookmarklets for each of your sites (but this will be helpful only in case you own no more than 10 site, I guess).
View Google Analytics Reports in Firefox
Fire Analytics is an experimental addon (login to install it) exporting Google Analytics reports into Firefox.
Access it via Tools => Fire Analytics menu, specify your Google Analytics email and password on ‘Preferences tab’ (alternatively you can just log into your account using browser), choose Report type and click “Show report” button.
Currently 7 report types are supported:
- Map Overlay
- OS and Browsers
- Languages
- Referring Sources
- Keywords
- Top Content
- New vs. Returning
Enhance Google Analytics Functionality
A number of Greasemonkey scripts united by this FireFox addon allow for quite a few additional features including:
I was checking out your fire analytics example and was cracking up at the subject. Upskirts and nipples? lol
@Cohnsey LOL yeah, I’ve got a celebrity blog that I can use for various experiments without any fear to bury it :)
Sounds like a nifty little firefox plugin for any webmaster using Google analytics (which would includ me). =)
I wouldn’t use the plugin because it doesn’t show the part of Google Analytics that I find most fascinating, the content overlay.
This shows you where your visitors are clicking and it usually isn’t where I would expect.
Very useful for adjusting your site and seeing the results in only a few days.
Ya that is good.
Here’s a new Firefox Add-on to enhance Google Analytics: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11120
It creates a new tables showiong the referring sites and keywords that are increasing and decreasing the most over the last few days.
But how can I disable completely google-analytics in Firefox ? Everytime I am trying to open a page , Firefox it is checking first the google – analytics, and this checking takes really time. It was a stooped ideea to put this “protection” in this browser wich finally does not protects too much. Maybe I will go back to Internet Explorer.
This firefox plugins allow you to see what analytics tool is install and what value it’s reporting: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4001