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Well, fair enough, but what is stopping you from just not doing the indepth analysis when using something like google analytics? I mean the simple stuff is right there, easily and quickly accesible on the dashboard, with no need to follow up on any of it, right?

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In Google Analytics, I would have to:

* click on "Websites" (top left of http://gget.it/5e8tyn6g/2.jpg)

* choose the right website in the list (http://gget.it/8jptjvso/3.jpg)

* wait that the page reloads

This, ten times in a row, which is annoying (once per website I manage).

Conclusion: more time spent on clicking twenty times on UI elements than actually looking at the charts.

I like to go super fast, now I open http://mywebsite.com/tinyanalytics/, and I have an immediate overview of all the websites in 10 seconds.

Or you could just fetch the most imporant data from the GA API and show it in the same kind of view you built for TinyAnalytics.

Good idea indeed! Haven't thought about it. Anyway learning how GA API works would have probably taken me more time than I actually used to write TinyAnalytics ;)

If you have time to share on Github a ready-to-use GA API -> HTML renderer (just the numbers would be enough, I'll be able to do the chart rendering), it would be awesome, I'll probably use it too!

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