Note: Bad news — All the cool API Excel extensions are PC swim only.
Backstory
When the Annielytics’ Dashboard Course was first released, Excellent Analytics was the best option for a free Google Analytics API tool. But now Excellent Analytics is no longer available, so we’re providing training on a new-and-improved option: Analytics Edge.
Video
This excellent tool (never heard that one before, I’m sure) allows you to pull data from the Google Analytics’ API into fancy reports each month.
The setup process can be a bit tricky, so I created a five-minute video walkthrough of the the user interface and the account connection process.
Analytics Edge has extensive number, date, filtering, and sorting options that are all covered in the tutorial below. I also demo how to dynamically add dimensions and metrics into your dashboard.
Free Dashboard
This dashboard is one of the dashboards available in the Annielytics Dashboard Course and mini-course. But we’re giving you this dashboard with Analytics Edge integration for free.
This dashboard has a tons of complex calculations that pull together this beautiful final product. Here is just one example:
And here’s a look at the full dashboard.
You can download it here.
Can’t wait to try this ! I’ve used similar tools in Google sheets, but this looks like it might be a little more comprehensive, but still well laid out.
Yeah! It’s an impressive tool!
I started using it last month.
It’s great, but it took a long time to get working with Excel 2010, due to remnants of other deleted add-ins clogging up my registry. (And the Office Help function stopped working…)
I bought Annie’s Analytics Audit Template yesterday and decided that if I’m going to customise a near 200 pages document I should probably ditch my old fuddy duddy Office and get a shiny new subscription to Office 365.
But my concern is that with the automatic updates to 365, I might experience “downtime” with Analytics Edge whilst Mike is incorporating changes (although judging by the speediness of responses to my support questions , I suspect that he is an insomniac).
Lol! I suspect you might be right about Mike! Good luck! I’d love to hear how it goes!
Many thanks.
I have a quick question, if you get a spare moment… but I’ll send it via your contact form just in case it’s not the sort of answer you wand visible to the public.
Best
Simon
Google Analytics is a great tool, if you take the time to use it correctly. What get’s me is Google’s constant need to update their algorithms. My latest annoyance with Google is the inability to use the Keyword Planner for free, the need to run a campaign purely to get keywords!
I agree! GA can be so powerful. But it’s also very easy to mess up a lot of your data in small settings.
My go-to for keywords is SEMRush.