One of the most important tasks when maintaining a website is knowing your visitors. Usually this is accomplished with some sort of tracking software, and who better to make website tracking software than Google? I use Google Analytics to track my sites, and today it looks like they’re testing out a new look. Take a peek:
Old Analytics
New Analytics
There’s a few things I do and don’t like about the new interface. I miss being able to see the little dots of where everyone is visiting my site from. In fact that was one of my favorite “eye candy” features of Analytics. I feel like the new continent shading scheme kind of generalizes and cheapens the whole thing. Speaking of generalizing, Google now lumps your referrers into categories rather than breaking them down individually. I haven’t delved into toying with the new interface too much yet as it was just released hours ago; hopefully there’s a way to customize what you see a little bit. However, I do like the new way that you see daily/monthly visitors and the new flash (I’m assuming that’s what they used) interface as it is smoother to operate.
This is all a brand-new beta, so I’ll play around some more. It shows promise.
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PS: don’t make fun of my stats, it’s a brand-new site!