We finally got access to the new Google Analytics today, so I’ve been having a play around.

The biggest change is the way it looks, mainly the menu system, also some reports seem to have disappeared – but I guess they may get re-added at sometime in the future.

The first thing you notice is the amount of space there is in the menu, leading us to believe we’re going to see a lot more stuff added in in the near future:

The next thing you notice is that you can create and customise new dashboards, I’ve created an SEO dashboard:

When you move to reports you’ll notice the side menu has changed somewhat:

There is also a handy little feature for picking date ranges, such as today, yesterday, last month. Sadly the biggest time saver would be “Last 12 months” but they haven’t included that… yet.

There’s a few other things, but nothing drastically different – there is a ton of bugs that need sorting out, I found myself stuck with looking at traffic from Madrid for all reports with no way of removing it!

Hopefully they’ll sort all the bugs out soon and maybe we’ll see something a little bit more special.