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Title: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: jetboy on March 04, 2016, 12:05:20 PM
Does anyone have any experience or recommendations around dashboard apps for aggregating various Google Analytics and other data? E.g. dashthis.com

The in-built GA dashboard functionality is proving quite limiting.
Title: Re: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: ergophobe on March 04, 2016, 06:03:23 PM
That's pretty cool.

I don't know of anything like that, but have you checked out Supermetrics?

It's just a suite of products for bringing data into various places. What data and what places depends on how much you pay (fairly a la carte). But GA data into Google Sheets is free (to a point).

You have options for tables, charts, etc direct via Supermetrics, but of course if you can pull the tabular data you want and do a bit of scripting or whatever you need, you can build any chart your spreadsheet app will build.
Title: Re: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: jimbanks on March 05, 2016, 12:16:16 AM
Supermetrics is pretty good.

Also Optmyzr pulls in Adwords data but you can build reports with GA data as well and you get nice visualisations.

A bit of a tangent, but https://www.quillengage.com is good for giving you a conversational assessment of your data.

Then finally only for one account at a time (unlike Supermetrics where you can do rollups) there is the Google Analytics Sheets Addon which you can pull API data from.
Title: Re: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: ergophobe on March 05, 2016, 01:06:40 AM
Quote from: jimbanks on March 05, 2016, 12:16:16 AM
A bit of a tangent, but https://www.quillengage.com is good for giving you a conversational assessment of your data.

Just registered for a free trial. Interesting service.
Title: Re: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: Rumbas on March 07, 2016, 12:24:47 PM
Here are a few, a bit old though:
http://www.dashboardjunkie.com/
Title: Re: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: Drastic on March 15, 2016, 04:03:33 PM
This does more than just GA and on sale for lifetime today:
http://www.appsumo.com/neatly-recap/

Dunno how good, but I'm thinking about trying it out.
Title: Re: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: ergophobe on March 15, 2016, 05:22:22 PM
I checked out the free trial to Neatly... it's faster than GA, but not a lot. The PDF reports are not formatted well (a box will go onto the next page and then the rest of the page is blank - not something you could send to a client).
Title: Re: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: Drastic on March 15, 2016, 08:23:44 PM
Thanks for that info. I didn't sign up as it didn't really look ready for prime time, thanks for confirming.
Title: Re: Dashboards for Google Analytics
Post by: jetboy on April 27, 2016, 09:37:26 AM
I've spent the last couple of days working with the Supermetrics tools. It looks like they'll do what I'm trying to do. Thanks for the tip.