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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.
Gallery: Analytics App for iPhone
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jash Sayani said 8:47AM on 2-05-2009
Woopra for iPhone (Web app) does the same for Free !
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Billy said 12:25PM on 2-05-2009
Uh, yeah, except the Woopra iPhone web app is probably the ugliest iPhone web app of all time.
Jash Sayani said 12:38PM on 2-05-2009
@Billy
Yes, I agree. But it delivers all the data.
Amit said 2:51PM on 2-10-2009
dude...this is cool! exactly what I needed?
would have been better it were 99c instead of $5.99 though...money matters :-)
http://www.livbit.com
Malcolm Hollingsworth said 9:45AM on 2-05-2009
Bought it, installed it, does not work ...
It takes ages to get past the loading screen and then either dies immediately or shows a login screen that appears for less than 2 seconds before dying.
Hoping this is a short term issue, otherwise just lost £3.49.
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Michael Jensen said 10:54AM on 2-05-2009
Malcolm, this is happening for a few users, we have a new version awaiting approval from Apple right now that should resolve this. Thanks!
Malcolm Hollingsworth said 1:48PM on 2-05-2009
Very happy with extremely fast personal response from the company to my questions.
They have assured me that the problem only affects a small number of people and an update has already been submitted to the Apple store.
Hoping that will resolve the situation, but very happy with the professional way in which the issue has been handled.
Malcolm Hollingsworth said 11:56AM on 2-10-2009
The latest version is out and installed on my phone, no long waits at the start and it works everytime.
It works great and I have been happily checking my accounts with it.
Well done Michael, keep it up.
Recommend this company as they made sure that I was aware what was happening and explained the whole situation clearly and gave time-frames that turned out to be true.
David said 9:45AM on 2-05-2009
This is so much better than the other app i was using...bubbye
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Alex said 10:02AM on 2-05-2009
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.
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Billy said 12:27PM on 2-05-2009
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
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outlyer said 12:45PM on 2-05-2009
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.
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awolf said 3:49PM on 2-05-2009
Analytics ON iPhone not Analytics FOR iPhone.
Big difference... I'm eagerly awaiting Analytics FOR Iphone.
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Robbie said 8:53PM on 2-05-2009
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!
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Gary Lee said 3:00AM on 2-12-2009
now if someone could create adwords editor for my iphone, I could go and play golf for the rest of my life!
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rob said 10:23AM on 2-13-2009
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.
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XCool said 11:06PM on 2-16-2009
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/
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sachin said 7:22AM on 2-17-2009
I use woopra. It is the best.
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