google analytics real time
 

It's pretty fun to watch your traffic live on google analytics. Just a trip to see things happening. This week I'm going make more of effort to really try and connect things up and create goal pages on sites I have complete control. Time to take stock in a lot of things and attempt to fine tune a little. Hopefully can get a little more blood from the porn rock.

:)

Check it out though if you haven't. Kinda fun to watch things live.

Live is quite cool but I'm still switching to old view when I wanna check normal stats. Same goes to Adsense, new look, more confusion for me.

I was using the old view for some time. Now I've just lived in it more and more I'm beginning to really get used to it and be a little more productive. At least I feel that way. |loony|

It's cool, I like the new version

I was stuck on the old version for a long time, but eventually decided to give in to change. I just love the new version and can't live without real time.

Realtime isn't accurate. I've got a node.js site that I've been working on which uses sockets for every connection, so, I know exactly how many people are connected at a particular time. Google allows sessions to expire very quickly, so, if you're using Ajax to drive your site, after no visible interaction, Google stops tracking that as a current visitor. When they hit the next page, it tracks them as a new pageview and starts the tracking over again. If I had to guess, they are expiring a user after 30-45 seconds.

This particular site has typical time on site numbers of 15+ minutes -- hopefully longer as it gets some real content and not just test content.

New Interface doesn't allow you to add a user to analytics, still have to use the old interface for that.

Both the new and old interface, with and without Webmaster Tools activated, make it very difficult to get the numbers you need. Even Mixpanel seems to be a little better, but, again, focused on the pretty numbers, not the numbers that you need.

If only there were more hours in the day.

I find myself thinking as well as saying this out loud far to often.