First Look: Analytics for iPhone

Google Analytics is a popular and quite useful set of tools for monitoring a web site's traffic and performance. Set up is a snap and the reports are easy to read and flexible. You can create goals, monitor traffic and so on. What more could you want? On-the-go reports via your iPhone? All of your target statistics in your pocket? Oh, all right.

Earlier this week, Michael D Jensen of Inblosam LLC released Analytics App, which presents everything you'd ever want from Google Analytics on your iPhone. It is exhaustive.

When you first launch Analytics App, you're asked for your Google login (you must have a pre-existing Analytics account). From there, a list of all the sites you're monitoring appears. Click any one and view nearly 30 reports, including traffic, visitors, content ... even events tracking you've set up and your own customized reports. It's speedy over Wi-Fi and EDGE.

For example, Analytics App's traffic reports include referring sites, search engines, keywords, AdWords campaigns and more. Set the date range of any report to sort by day, week or month. The Dashboard provides an overview complete with easy-to-read graphs.

For $5.99US, this application is a keeper. Up-to-date stats from all of your sites, available nearly anywhere, makes our geeky little hearts go pitter-pat.

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sachin

I use woopra. It is the best.

February 17 2009 at 7:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

XCool

Besides calling home to report on the device and app usage behaviour (which is mentioned in the app's privacy policy), the app talks to no one else but Google's servers only via a secure HTTPS connection.

I documented this in my review where I setup an Apache web server with mod_proxy enabled as well as Ethereal packet analysis tool and captured all the traffic that was going thru during usage of the application.

http://www.onemoretap.com/2009/02/14/review-analytics-app/

February 16 2009 at 11:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rob

Here's another review of the Analytics App here:

http://www.iphonecommunity.org/2009/02/app-review-analytics-app-by-inblosam-llc/

While I do like the app I have some complaints with it... how do you view stats for an individual day? Like statcounter, I like to see individual days to compare.

February 13 2009 at 9:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gary Lee

now if someone could create adwords editor for my iphone, I could go and play golf for the rest of my life!

February 12 2009 at 3:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Robbie

I love this app! I've been using google analytics for awhile and this app is so great! Another great app is Fetch MMS.. it lets you send MMS now on the iphone!!! check it out.. and thanks for the article!

February 05 2009 at 8:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adam

Analytics ON iPhone not Analytics FOR iPhone.

Big difference... I'm eagerly awaiting Analytics FOR Iphone.

February 05 2009 at 3:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

outlyer

If you're concerned about providing your Google Account to this application (like I was) you can set up a "View Reports Only" account in the Analytics user manager. That way you can keep your main Google Accounts safe.

February 05 2009 at 12:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Billy

Click web analytics has had a full fledged iPhone web app since September. ALmost every piece of data available on our main web service is in the iPhone version - easily 30 different reports like this one. The best part? It's official, not some third party hack that is a big security risk to share your Google user/password with.

http://getclicky.com/web-analytics/iphone-mobile-web-analytics

February 05 2009 at 12:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex

Just bought it. It's brilliant. The release notes say that another version with fixes for some crash bugs is already in the approval queue.

@Jash Woopra may be free, but it looks like garbage.

February 05 2009 at 9:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David

This is so much better than the other app i was using...bubbye

February 05 2009 at 9:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply