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Everyone I speak with who uses GA almost never checks their stats, so I wrote a service to bring your stats to you. :) Happy to answer any questions!

I think my main target audience is small business owners with websites, or publishers who make money from their websites.

Some factoids:

- Originally written in Go, but then I regretted doing a webapp in Go so I rewrote it in Python. Hosted on DigitalOcean with Docker (really loving Docker lately).

- Launched my former startup SocialGrapple (also in the analytics space) while traveling abroad. Same deal with Briefmetrics. Currently in Prague. :)

- I worked on Google Analytics for over a year, but this has nothing to do with what I worked on (closer to what SocialGrapple was, which was acqu(h)ired by Google).

This seems pretty interesting, are you seeing lots of traction? It seems like more in-depth analytics might be pretty useful for some segments.

Is there any way you get me a report that combines data from multiple analytics profiles?

I have a dozen sites with a dozen profiles (and I think that's the correct set up -- they are discrete) but a lot of the time I want to track aggregate traffic to all of them or see trends about what's popular across all of them. I have scripts I hacked together using the API... but it's really pretty hacky.

If you could get me reports (also real-time data views!) that lets me slice and dice across a bunch of GA profiles, I would gladly pay for it.

Aiming to release multiple site support in a few weeks.

I'm planning to stick to email for delivery though, so real-time won't really work. :/

I think the Real Time API is still limited access beta anyway.

Even without real time this could be really useful -- thanks!

I added a note to ping you as soon as the multi-site stuff is ready for testing. I'm probably going to start with individual reports per-site, and then add summary reports for multiple sites. If you have any requests for the kinds of data you'd like to see, I'd love to hear about it.

To start with, I'm really just looking for real basic stuff: What were the top 10 pages across all sites? What were the trends/graphs of traffic of all sites combined (maybe a stacked line graph so I can still see how each site contributed).

It'd be great to know which sites are having a particularly good or bad month based on historical data.

Shoot me an email if you want more, it's in my profile.

I love this service. I've been beta testing it for a few weeks and Andrey has figured out just the right metrics to include in a very succinct manor. It's one of my favorite emails every week.

Just tried it out and was pleasantly surprised by the email.

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