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google analytics visualisations

james — Thu, 06 May 2010 06:11:59 +0000

So like many people who run a whole bunch of website I use Google Analytics to track visits to those websites. GA — for those unfamiliar with the product — is a free Google service that works via an embedded bug on each webpage on the site. When activated it reports useful anonymised information back to Google including IP address, browser and OS version, page referrer etc. When this information is combined with other stuff Google already knows about, including the location on Earth of most IP addresses (i.e. the one your computer is using right now) and the analytics from other sites also embedding the GA bug they’re able to produce some extremely interesting graphs that can help you work out what content is popular on your site, how people are finding it and what impact changes you make over time have on attracting a larger audience.

Anyways…
This morning I saw a link to http://www.google.com/analytics/apps/results — I’m not sure where now, maybe it was in my RSS aggregator. That link has links to a bunch of other useful apps some for iPhone/iPad, and some web apps like the following:

http://analyticsvisualizations.appspot.com/

Juice Analytics talks directly to the GA API and can produces the most wonderful looking visualisations. All of the image on this page were produced using the analytics reporting from this web site. These next two being the results of my most popular piece of content:

Keyword Tree based on "airport" coloured by "average time on site"

Keyword Tree based on "airport" coloured by "% new visitors"

Talk about awesome user interface design

unsw/googlemaps points of interest

james — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:34:39 +0000

View at googlemaps

view superbad big ass version

Click here to download the KMZ file directly

Google Maps now with Australian Street View

james — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:52:12 +0000

cool, Google Maps Street View has made it to Australia!

and they’re using face detection with blurring to protect people’s privacy!

face blur protecting the innocent

yay, more love from Google maps

james — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:32:49 +0000

View Larger Map
(screw you guys I’m going to the beach)

Google Developer Day 2007 – Sydney

james — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:21:23 +0000

Today marked the start of Google Developer Day 2007. The first event was held in Sydney, at Australian Technology Park.
I was fortunate enough to be there and had a pretty cool time. Thank you Google!

see Flickr photo page