Ever want to view Google Analytics data for your website without leaving WordPress? ...Well, we did. And we're looking forward to helping WordPress users utilize this web traffic data in interesting ways.

Description

Googlyzer utilizes a jQuery plugin called Sparkline to create a dashboard of charts showing data from Google Analytics for a selected website profile. In order to do this, a pre-existing Google Analytics account that contains historic data is required. Users can select a pre-defined date range (past 30 days is the default), or input a custom date range on the Googlyzer settings page. Website data is not cached or stored locally, it is refreshed and the charts are redrawn each time the Googlyzer Dashboard page is accessed.

GA Dimensions

Googlyzer now includes the following dimensions from Google Analytics:

  • City (ga:city)
  • Continent (ga:continent)
  • Country (ga:country)
  • Day (ga:date)
  • Hostname (ga:hostname)
  • Landing Page (ga:landingPagePath)
  • Keyword (ga:keyword)
  • Page Path (ga:pagePath)
  • Page Title (ga:pageTitle)
  • Region (ga:region)
  • Subcontinent (ga:subcontinent)

GA Metrics

Googlyzer now includes the following metrics from Google Analytics:

  • Average Page Load Time (ga:avgPageLoadTime)
  • Average Search Depth (ga:avgSearchDepth)
  • Average Time on Site (ga:avgTimeOnSite)
  • Bounces (ga:bounces)
  • Entrances (ga:entrances)
  • Entrance Bounce Rate (ga:entranceBounceRate)
  • New Visits (ga:newvisits)
  • Organic Searches (ga:organicSearches)
  • Pageviews (ga:pageviews)
  • Pageviews per Visit (ga:pageviewsPerVisit)
  • Percent New Visits (ga:percentNewVisits)
  • Search Depth (ga:searchDepth)
  • Search Result Views (ga:searchResultViews)
  • Search Visits (ga:searchVisits)
  • Visits (ga:visits)
  • Visitors (ga:visitors)
  • Visit Bounce Rate (ga:visitBounceRate)

Chart Combinations

Here is a list of some of the chart combinations possible with the available dimension and metric combinations in Googlyzer: (all over a specified period that can be a given by specific dates, or over a dynamic range, for example over the last 30 days)

  • Visits by Browser (pie chart %)
  • Referrals by Source (pie chart %)
  • New vs. Returning Visitors (pie chart %)
  • Total Pageviews (sparkline chart)
  • Total Visitors (sparkline chart)
  • Total New Visits (sparkline chart)
  • Visitors / Day (sparkline chart)
  • Visitors / Country (sparkline chart)
  • Pageviews / Day (sparkline chart)
  • Pageviews / Country (sparkline chart)
  • New Visits / Day (sparkline chart)
  • Bounce Rate % (sparkline chart)
  • Most Popular Pages by Pageviews (table)
  • Top Keyword Searches by Search Count (table)
  • And many more...

Plugin Links

Googlyzer Plugin Website

http://oaktondata.com/googlyzer

Googlyzer Support Forum

http://oaktondata.com/forums/forum/googlyzer

Security

Googlyzer is granted access to the website data through use of the Google Analytics API, which allows the user to be temporarily redirected to a login for Google Analytics for the purpose of granting a 3rd party application such data access. Googlyzer is never given the actual Google userid or password, nor is this information stored by the Googlyzer plugin in any way. Once a user logs into their Google Analytics account and grants access, Googlyzer stores a cookie which allows it to access the website data. Access to Google Analytics can easily be revoked, by simply clicking Logout on the Googlyzer settings page. Googlyzer creates a Googlyzer Dashboard menu item under the Dashboard menu where the dashboard can be accessed. As such, the Googlyzer Dashboard is only available for viewing by users with administrative access to your WordPress site.

Setup Instructions

Download, install, and activate the Googlyzer plugin. Once activated, go to the Googlyzer settings page, under the 'Settings' menu. Click the login button to grant Googlyzer access to Google Analytics. Once completed, you should be redirected back to the Googlyzer settings page, which will populate with the available website profiles from Google Analytics. Select the desired website profile, and modify the date range settings as desired. Click on Save Settings.

After saving settings, go to the Googlyzer Dashboard item under the WordPress Dashboard menu in the admin console. The page will provide status updates as it goes through the process of loading the Google Analytics client libraries, retrieving data, and loading the dashboard charts. Depending on connection speed, the page can take up to 30 sec to load. Be patient!

Should you wish to revoke access for Googlyzer to your Google Analytics website data, simply click on Logout in the Googlyzer settings page. Please NOTE, once Google Analytics access is revoked, Googlyzer can no longer create the dashboard.