I made a quick little modification to the Map Overlay dashboard I described in our popular blog article, and produced the same dashboard, but focussed specifically on that USA market.

This is part 2 of a series for the new Next Analytics user, walking through how to create a simple monthly summary report (see Part 1). In this article, I am going to explore how to show distribution of visits over a couple of dimensions:

Show the visits by the traffic source (medium)
Show the visits of [...]

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For a new Next Analytics user, the tool can seem quite daunting, so in this article, I will walk through how to create a simple monthly summary report using Next Analytics version 3.0. I am going to roll in a number of common challenges, including:

Show a common metric like visit count
Show a calculated metric like [...]

I was really disappointed this week when Hootsuite stopped telling me what Twitter messages were ‘new’ since the last time I looked. That was the number one reason I used it, and the Twitter interface is missing this valuable feature. Well, there were a few things that bugged me about both Hootsuite and even the [...]

Many of the free Excel dashboards available from Next Analytics combine the results from multiple Google Analytics queries into the various elements of one Excel “dashboard” worksheet, but it may not be obvious how you would build such a combination report from the user interface. It is actually quite easy, and in this article, I will [...]

While I was building one of our weekly free Excel dashboards (Traffic Source Trends), I realized that most of our dashboards include an interactive dropdown with the Google Analytics advanced segments. While this is a great capability and is similar to the GA web interface, making comparisons between segments is difficult because you have to [...]

I was building an Excel dashboard last week, this time about traffic sources from Google Analytics, when I realized it was time to bring together two of the most useful analytics functions: trends and segmentation. We get a lot of requests for segmented trends, and we’ve published an interactive workbook with the functionality (Segmented Trends), [...]

A number of people need to keep track of multiple web properties – their blog, support site, maybe a social media presence and their main web site. They may even have a series of related websites that they want to track independently. This week’s free Excel dashboard shows just how easily Next Analytics lets you [...]

I often find I have two lists of things and I want to filter one list based on the contents of the other; removing test pages from a top content report for example. In this week’s free Excel report, I added an “exclude” worksheet so that named service providers or specific regions or countries could [...]