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The Mad Analyst is Happy

The Mad Analyst is happy.  Why you ask?  Because I’m now using some of the latest Google Analytics features and it makes my life easier, particularly the Advanced Table & Report Filtering function.  The release couldn’t have been more timely, considering a recent client request.

I was asked to look at the content of their site to determine “choke” points within the navigation.  Now the site doesn’t have a lot of page depth to begin with so I wondered how I might look at where people are falling off.  Previously, you could look at page data and only sort by the headers – so if I sort by Exit% or Bounce Rate, I either get the pages that are performing well or I get the pages that have super high bounce rates (100% !) but only 2 visits.  What do you do?  Export all 2,346 rows and then apply a filter in Excel?  Not anymore.

Instead I utilized 2 semi-recent functions and the very recent report filtering to easily export a nice little analysis identifying the pages that need attention because they’re losing visitors.

First, I created a custom report that showed me the key metrics I wanted by page:

-        Visits

-        Entrances

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November 18th, 2009 | Posted by Darren 'the Data Guy' Selberg
Categories: Google Analytics
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