New Google Analytics - realtime is awesome

[Gusk]

If you don't have Google Analytics or have not looked for a few days they have just introduced real time view.

In one word, it's awesome.

You can now see how many people are on your site at this moment, the changes when you tweet or Facebook something or change your page. It shows what google searches are bringing you traffic, that is very eye opening, and the current referring sites.

Basically if you don't have it you are not doing yourself any favors.

How do you use Analytics to better your site? For example if I see a common search term I find those references and bold tem in the original posts.

[soaringeagle]

again 13 ppl can have left the window open..so are logged in for a week anylitics measure whis browsing opages acrtively within the last 5 minutes ppl leave chat open for days with no actual suite browsing its the lof]gin state thats inacurw=ate anylitics is a better measure of site activuity

my site says im on when im asleep do you want to count that?

[Kris]

I like whos.amung.us because I can monitor how many people are on my site from my iPhone

[soaringeagle]

that slowed my site tioo much but u sure got an active site there

[John]

+1 Awesome.  Thanks for pointing it out Gus K.

I'm not the only one here using FeedJit
http://live.feedjit.com/live/motorhomes.com/0/

[Suzie Nielsen]

Thanks for that tip John, I installed this and I love feedjit-

But I have already had one member complain that because it gives out the city and state it invades privacy!!

OMG! They will complain about anything!

[Gary W Norman]

I've used Google Analytics since August of 2009 and my site is public, but only the main page is visible.  Analytics monitors pageviews (of the main page) and keeps track of referring sites, keywords used,  It keeps track of where my visitors come from, countries, etc. I like it and continue to use it. I realize of course I'd have more useful and accurate info if my site was totally Public, but that is not what my members want.

[Lorelei Halley]

This question is only tangentially related:  those of you who have Google Analytics set up on your ning sites, do you find that it does slow down response time when you try to move around?

[Gary W Norman]

no I do not. Site runs as well with it or without it, from what I've seen.

[soaringeagle]

question when watching the real time anylitics some are highlighted in greed or red mommentarily but no explanation what the red and green highlights mean

have u figured this out?

[John]

No idea.

[Lorelei Halley]

I've just set up Google Analytics on my network a few hours ago.  I've been meaning to do that for the last 6 months, but have avoided it because I expected a huge hurdle.  I'm not a programmer.  I don't know what all the words mean.  But it actually wasn't that bad.  It really does work!  I even was able to set up a 2nd profile with a filter that excludes visits from my own IP address.  That just subtracts all my activity from the total and gives me a more realistic picture of what everybody else is doing. It shows me what the referring sites were, and even what pages the person looked at who came from that other site.  Really cool stuff.

[Lorelei Halley]

I've had google analytics set up for both my sites since mid December.  The one thing it can't give me is a way to distinguish member visits from non-member visits.  The NEW/RETURNING visitor thing doesn't help because I may have members who only visit once every month or 2.  And non-members may visit repeatedly without joining.  I know how to get statistics by removing myself -- just plug in my 4 code numbers.  But I can't do that for hundreds of members.  Is there some code that ning attaches to network members that I can use as an exclusion or inclusion for google analytics?