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Analytics Rock - Direct Insights on your GA Account

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Anyone interested in this might like to read the lengthy discussion from when it was submitted two days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2999401

Edit: On the other hand, it's now had a down vote, so I guess people don't want to read the previous discussion. I'll leave this here for a few minutes so people can see it, and then I'll delete it.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Second edit: Hmm. Now upvoted again. I'll leave it - let people up or down vote as you choose. It's late here - I'm off.

Whoops, didn't see that before. I frequent HN so I guess there may be a few people who are of the same mind as me and missed out on it the first time around - thanks for pointing out the previous comments.

It was on the front page for most of the European afternoon, but it dropped off at about 8am pacific time, so I'm guessing west coast American HNers probably wouldn't have seen it.

There's probably a whole bunch of links on HN that people miss because they weren't awake in the time period that the link was on the front page.

You're a good contributor to this community, so this is a kind of one-off deal and frankly I'm surprised I have to say this but:

Say what you're going to say. Mean what you say and don't watch your karma. If you weren't willing to say it in the presence of downvotes, then it wasn't worth saying.

That's all I'll say. Hope you had a good sleep. :)

I appreciate your comments - thank you. I don't care about the karma for the sake of the karma. I care about the karma insofar as it reflects the sentiments of the community. I used to cross-reference duplicates of the same story because I thought it added value for people to see the different points of view from the different sources, and it helped avoid getting a split discussion with the same points made over and over and over again.

It became clear from the down votes that the community as a whole didn't want that, so I stopped. On the rare occasions I think it's worthwhile to put such a cross-reference I'm always a bit sensitive to the reaction. I've always tried to be a useful member of the community and not simply say "screw 'em."

My attitude is changing.

I'll say no more. It was meta-discussion like this that got me a deal of hate last time. If you want to say more, email me.

This is my side-project, as I said in the previous thread discussing it questions/feedback/comments are welcome.

Cool stuff here. My comment is not on the app itself, it's on how it's being marketed. My initial impression was that this was some Google-affiliated 10% project or something based on the branding on the page, then I noticed the owner in previous comments say different.

The person who made this, if even for purely altruistic purposes, should be leveraging the eyeballs into some lifetime value, whether it's Twitter followers, awareness of who created it, clickthroughs to a blog, etc. It saddens me - as a marketer - to see a cool project like this essentially exist in the wild without an author's signature.

To be honest I didn't even think many people would use it, I only put the site live on wednesday evening and posted a link on my personal twitter on thursday. I certainly didn't expect it to get the traffic and word-of-mouth popularity that it did.

If you go to http://www.analyticsrock.com/ you get some bumper page, and pinging it resolves to a completely different IP, we resolves to this page: webredir.vip.gandi.net. I guess there is some DNS misconfiguration.

The site looks really promising though! Definitely get a twitter link up there or something.

Same here. It works fine without a www But with a www prefixed, it reports ' Heroku | no such app '

Is it just me?

First time Google sign-in actually makes sense.

I love this. It just breaks out the truly useful information from GA and removes the clutter.

I wish it did some more analysis from all of GA's data, and presented more information in such an easily digestible form.

@ig1: Please create an about page with info about yourself and the site. There's no way I'm going to give some random site access to my data without some background.

Also, a privacy policy is required by CA law.

It's on my todo list. But it comes down to: I'm not going to do anything evil with your analytics data and it'll only be used for generating the reports.

Essentially it does come down to whether you trust me or not.

Have the same issues: I've need much more reasons and a very good call-to-action why I should sign up. Don't get me wrong but giving my Google credentials is a highly sensitive issue: this is not about giving you access to my Gmail contact list (I wouldn't care) -- it's about giving you access to comprehensive data of my company (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, AdSense, AdWords ... to mention a few ones)

When I click "sign in with Google" it only asks for access to my email address and Google Analytics data.

Minus the sites instability (seems to be extremely slow and causes chrome to freak out) this idea and implementation is very cool. I've learned stuff I didn't know before about our sites.

Should be faster now, I've pushed up the number of concurrent users it can handle.

How's Chrome freaking out ? - I'm using Chrome myself and even when it's been slow Chrome hasn't had any problems[1].

[1] There is one weird bug with Chrome that makes it go really slow when doing a Google oauth occasionally, I haven't managed to track it down yet, but it's something at the packet level as with tcpdump I can see Firefox getting a response a lot faster than chrome. Possibly something to do with the headers Chrome sends making Google respond more slowly.

the page goes completely white and then it "hangs", if I close the tab it takes ~10 seconds to respond, if I wait ~60 seconds the page finally loads. At first I assumed it was processing on the fly (the site I was loading the analytics for is ~120m page views in the past 30 days) but I checked the source and it's not doing anything fancy clientside so I have no idea what it could be.

This is really cool, I'd love to see more default charts added to the DB. Would love to see daypart mashed up against ecomm data.

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