Google Analytics Address RegEx Tool

One of the handy features of Google Analytics is the “Filters” feature. Want to make sure your visits to your site aren’t tracked? Just create a filter for your external IP address[1] and you’re good to go.

To setup filters you’re going to need to know a little bit about regular expressions. Another term for

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Google Analytics — Hourly?

Are there really no hourly reports in Google Analytics?

FeedBurner Site Stats Issue?

FeedBurner’s Site Stats feature isn’t something that a lot of folks are aware of, but I’ve been using it for most of a year and generally am quite happy with it. It gives a nice “simplified” view of traffic and metrics. When I want more, I dig into Google Analytics.

While checking stats last night,

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Google Analytics on AIR

If you use Google Analytics for web stats you might be interested in Google Analytics AIR beta.  This is a slick little app that runs on your local machine (presumably anywhere that AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) can run.

It’s easy to run, starts quick and feels a bit more accessible than the Analytics web interface.  In

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More Landing Pages Soon

I’ll be revisiting the Landing Page & Analytics topic again soon. When testing analytics, it helps to check filters.

Turns out I had Google Analytics configured to filter out activity from our office connections… thus, my initial testing was completely bogus!