While working on our free spreadsheet report for last week, splitting the Google Analytics screen resolutions into a grid view, I noticed that some of the test sites had very different profiles of popular screen sizes. At first I thought this might be due to variation of discretionary capital (a.k.a. pocket money) in various countries [...]

As I was digging into some web traffic from Brazil, I happened to notice that the most popular screen resolution was 1024 x 768. OK, that makes sense, but it got me thinking…with all the huge resolution desktop screens, wide screen laptops and odd-shaped mobile devices, just what is the most common size/shape of display [...]

Using the unique capabilities of the Nextanalytics add-in for Excel 2007 (2003 version also available), we whipped up a quick dashboard that combines many of the key visitor-tracking metrics from Google Analytics all on one page, and it’s all yours, in a Microsoft Excel workbook. Use it as-is or customize to suit your distinctive needs. [...]