5 ms·
Probably because it has grown organically - it may never have been designed at all, but just had details tweaked and features added over the years until it reac
by grey-area 12y ago
Probably because it has grown organically - it may never have been designed at all, but just had details tweaked and features added over the years until it reached its current state. I agree it is very confusing because there are so many features, though I like the real time section and audience overview, which seem pretty clear.
What in particular would you change though? Which metrics do you want to see at a glance which are buried, which things would you like to see on an overall dashboard? It's easy to say something is confusing, but far harder to come up with specific recommendations in order to make it better. This is an area which interests me so I'm genuinely interested in your response.
- 2pointsomone 12y agoHey thanks! Yeah I don't know. I was considering doing a redesign and putting it in a blogpost - but thinking through this is painful. I guess I just want to know about how much traffic I am getting everyday, where its coming from, what users are doing when they arrive on the site, and when they leave. I wish I had better ways to explain that.
- Avalaxy 12y agoYou know you can make custom dashboards right? Maybe that will help you out with what you want.
- 2pointsomone 12y agoI have spent all day trying to do that. It seems like I need a PhD in data science to understand the complex UI around all of it.
- higherpurpose 12y agoThat's why I'd rather use the Analytics dashboard (plugin) in Wordpress than go to Google's own web page. Google would do good to learn from it, and provide users a simpler "at a glance" view by default.