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Show HN: A tool to audit your Google Analytics implementation

mixedanalytics.com

30 pointsthatsnice12 comments

Looks nice.

Some suggestions:

* provide more information about does "audit" consist of.

* update your privacy policy so that your users get aware of which data you will pull out of their GA accounts, what you do with it, how long you will keep it etc...

* dashboard's not too bad, you may make the summary at the top (score, #pass/fail) more prominent, and expand all the fail by default.

Thank you for your feedback. Those are all great ideas. Actually none of the user's GA data is directly accessed or stored whatsoever -- it's all done through the Google API using oAuth so we can't see any of their account data. But I will add in some text to explain that more clearly. Thanks again!

What does it do? What is meant with "Deep clean" and what does the audit solve?

I notice their services page [0] mentions an audit for US$3000 with different checks and fixes, but no pricing is mentioned at their audit tool page. Is it the same service?

It looks cool, if I know what it does I might press the yellow button to check my GA setup.

  [0]: http://mixedanalytics.com/googleanalyticsaudit.html

Thanks for your feedback. They are not the same service -- the web app is a free automated audit that checks for 17 different issues I regularly find while auditing client accounts (for example, problems with event tracking, view filters, marketing campaign tags, etc.) The $3000 audit is a full service audit that is usually requested by large e-commerce sites with custom, complex set-ups. I will make an effort to differentiate these more clearly. Please go ahead and press the button :)

I second the comments here about wondering what an "audit" does here. I have no idea what it means to "audit" my Google Analytics accounts.

The other thing is: I have no idea who you are, so why would I hand over my Google Analytics information to you? You have a client list, but no general "about" page, no information about your team, etc.

Thanks philipn. Typically web analytics firms call this type of account setup and implementation review an "audit", but you're right, it's not necessarily clear. Let me think what else I can call it... GA is pretty complex these days and many accounts have setup problems. So the point of this tool is to scan through an account and identify any issues.

As for handing over GA info, it's only handing it over to Google as they handle all login and authorization. The data can only be seen by you and is not accessed or stored on our side. However, someone else voiced the same concern, so I will definitely make it more clear.

I have been working in the field of web analytics for many years but this is a brand new site (old one was at akravitz.com) About page is coming!

I agree. Note that the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn links are wrong. A bit odd for a company that has been around for 3 years, isn't it?

In its current form, I wouldn't trust this one bit.

EDIT: I see from an above comment that it's a new product. Fine. Still: work on your credibility if you don't want to be confused for a phishing attempt.

EDIT2: For anyone wondering, it's definitely legit, see the added LinkedIn profile. Nice work!

You're right, thank you for the feedback. It slipped through since I just made this new site last week. I am a web analyst and not a phisher but I see how it looks suspicious -- I'm editing the links now!

Just tried it, seems legit and gives a couple of good suggestions.

@thatsnice why don't you explain the things your tool checks on the home page like it's explained after I connect a GA account?

Thanks, filipm. It's interesting, the intro page does actually list all the things it audits in the box that says Site Settings, Goals and Funnels, Site Search, Campaign Tracking, etc. Did you not see that (perhaps because it's below the fold) or was it just not clear enough?

Hey this is pretty good. I tried it and found all kinds of problems that I didn't know about on my website. It would also be great if there were definitions easily available for those of us who don't understand what is being interpreted.

Clean design and nice project.

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