Google Analytics has been a part of my arsenal for many years. It is really good, it has been improved over the years, and the best part? Well it is free!
There have been many many companies that have seen that Google did not have a realtime analytics service, and they have been doing really well. I looked at them and because you have to pay, I thought “do I really need this?”. And for the most part, I thought that I didn’t.
So when I got this email this morning,
I got quite excited. But then thought, “do I really need this?”
Well to answer the question, YES. This is so amazing, I had no idea how cool this could be to check what Tweets you have posted and in realtime to see where people are coming from and what they are looking at.
How to get your realtime analytics
Do you have access to it? To check do this:
If at the top of your analytics page it says this, click on the “New Version”
Then click on the website that you want to look at.
Then you should be on the Standard Reporting page.
Then click on the Home Link.
Then click on the Real-time (Beta) link.
Then click on the Overview link and this is what you will see.
This is the overview Screen.
This is the locations screen for Google Analytics Real-time.
This is the Traffic sources Page.
This will show you what content is being viewed right now on your site.
I cannot find any info about how this is being rolled out, but if you don’t have it yet, I’m sure that it will come soon.
This could be the most addictive things that Google has ever rolled out. Once this post is posted, I will then watch how the figures increase.
Please share your thoughts below.
