Analytics360° – Google Analytics in your Dashboard

15 July 2009 Joost de Valk 87 comments, leave your own!

I've been doing some changes to how the WordPress newsletter gets sent out recently, and one of those changes was because I have switched to using MailChimp. I was getting sick of Aweber after some issues, and when the folks from MailChimp decided to advertise on my blog I contacted them.

So now, MailChimp is the newest sponsor of this blog, or actually of the accompanying newsletter, and the day I switched they also released a very cool plugin, that will be a great companion to my Google Analytics plugin, called Analytics360°.

I should clarify: you do not need to use MailChimp to be able to use this plugin!

To show you how cool it is I've embedded the video of the original release post (but don't forget to read on after watching, cool stuff coming):

Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Blip.tv video.

Now I couldn't help myself, I had to peak inside the plugin. By default it shows a "site traffic" view, with the following tabs: "all traffic", "email", "organic" and "referral". Now because I use my own Google Analytics plugin, I know my RSS traffic is tagged with RSS as the medium, and because I use Sociable in combination with awe.sm, that traffic is tagged too.

Now I've found that it's very easy to add those two traffic sources to the dashboard.

To do this, go into the plugin directory, into the subfolder called js, and open the file a360.js. On line 814 (in this version of the plugin at least), I changed this:

if (['all traffic', 'cpc', 'email',
  'organic', 'referral'].indexOf(name) >= 0) {

Into:

if (['all traffic', 'cpc', 'email', 'rss', 'yoa.st-twitter',
  'organic', 'referral'].indexOf(name) >= 0) {

And tadaa:

analytics360.jpg

Cool, huh? Thanks to Alex King and Crowd Favorite as well, as they coded the plugin!

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80 Responses to “Analytics360° – Google Analytics in your Dashboard”

  1. By Adam J. Humphreys Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 08:21

    Very cool I'll have to try it out.

  2. By Cookie Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 08:26

    Great! And i`ll find the awe.sm referrals under "referral" too?

  3. By Bernardo Contopoulos Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 08:26

    Very useful indeed. I have just signed up with Mail Chimp and after testing few email marketing services, I think their services are by far the best, excluding of course more expensive email marketing solutions. I am looking forward to give a try in this plugin.

    Cheers,
    Bernardo

  4. By Freakenstein Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 08:29

    Awesome video!
    Besides that, I think that I'm gonna try the plugin, look neat!

  6. By Mikael Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 09:08

    Joost, when you changed from Aweber to MailChimp, how did you manage to move your subscribers?

    /Mikael

  7. By quicoto Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 09:48

    So cool man!

    Thanks for make WordPress better :)

  8. By Phil Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 09:55

    I'm keeping a foot in both camps at the moment. Mailchimp is definitely the way to go, great application with some very useful integrations e.g. Magento (our webshop, and therefore customers) & Batchbook (our CRM, and therefore new enquirers/future customers) - you can import new subscribers from both.
    But, our Aweber popover signup box (appears about 40 secs after 1st visit to site and then not again for six months) currently captures four times as many signups as the static forms on our website! (waiting for Mailchimp popovers ;-)).

  9. By Lohith Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 10:07

    great plug in Kudos to Analytics 360, cool video too

  10. By just Guido Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 10:25

    Signed up after reading this post. Pricing and services look good. Form generator is a tad wonky. Will mess about with it later. Thanks for the Analytics info and coverage!

  11. By Raghavan Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 10:28

    Great video explaining the features of the plugin. I'm going to try this out, I really like the additional features in GA that you have added. Cool

  12. By Marcus Sykes Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 10:31

    Very cool indeed! Great tweak you made there.

  13. By Abdul Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 10:34

    Yeah.. Its cool. Great google analytics plugin. Let me try for our website.

    Thanks for your post.

  14. By Rob Anderson Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 11:40

    I have to laugh - I try to follow a lot of your advice because you know so much. So when I was looking for a newsletter solution, I initially considered Aweber, but in the end opted for MailChimp because it was so easy to use (and free to trial...).

    I love MailChimp's RSS Feed newsletter option that makes everything so easy. And the new Analytics 360 plugin is way cool! Nice tweak BTW :)

  15. By Shuki Haiminis Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 11:51

    Do we need to use your goog plugin in addition to this one if we want to have the RSS tweak work?

    Thanks for the post on the plugin....looks very interesting.

  16. By Tatesjourney Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 11:54

    awesome! I am definitely trying it.

  17. By Christopher Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 13:31

    I looked at MailChimp a long time ago when I was looking for a 'drip' auto responder service. This plug-in looks great though, I will have to check them out again.

  18. By Devin Reams Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 15:28

    Thanks for this post, Joost. The plugin, by design, was limited to just those pre-defined tabs as if we pulled all in, some people would have dozens across their screen. Your approach here is perfect, nice find.

    • By Joost de Valk Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 15:55

      Hey Devin, thanks for dropping by, I can indeed image that throwing all segments in there would cause issues, this works for me as long as the plugin isn't updated to often :)

  19. By Kevin haynes Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 15:31

    Yo Yoast,

    thanks, you gotta luv technology. switching to wordpress just to add the plugin.

  20. By Shuki Haiminis Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 15:58

    I know you are not the plug-in creator but did you have any issues with getting goog to authenticate? I am getting an error.

  21. By Jonny T Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 15:59

    OK...now this is too cool. I can't wait to play with this.

  22. By Atomic Popcorn Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 16:08

    Installed and loving it, now if I could find something like this that shows me my up to date Adsense earnings it would be fantastic!!

  23. By Joshua Parker Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 16:52

    Finally, this is what I was waiting for. Can't wait to try it out as well.

  24. By Joanne Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 17:49

    We've had major complications with the latest version of GR, so your 'High Five' of Mail Chimp came at the perfect time! We will definitely be checking them out as well.

    Thanks Joost :)

  25. By xphunt3r Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 18:07

    it's a great one. this will be the great plugin.......

  26. By Randall Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 20:26

    Is there a list of the various tags that we can use? I see you use yoa.st-twitter, so I guess we can use awe.sm-twitter ? What about the others, like FaceBook & Digg?

  27. By Dave Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 21:38

    Congrats! for the very helpful plugin. Keep up the good work!

  28. By Karl Foxley Wed, July 15th, 2009 at 21:53

    Very cool plugin... great addition to any blog! I must say that 'hats off to Mail Chimp' on the video and the invention of 'internet-o-graphic'. :)

    Great stuff.

    Karl

  29. By thecandleholder Thu, July 16th, 2009 at 11:25

    Good stuff
    I use it for work
    But for my own blog I'm on wordpress.com and there is not such a good program! Sucks!!

  30. By the_guv Thu, July 16th, 2009 at 11:45

    hey Joost,

    big cheers as always, Sir .. bit of a heads up tho'

    .. your css is a bit screwed on the top-right rss panel. and such a shame for such a beaut site :) lemme know if you want a screenshot.

    using FF 3.0.11, Jaunty Jockstrap.

  31. By Jim in Atlanta Thu, July 16th, 2009 at 16:16

    Hey, Joost:
    Interesting,just got this error from my site. Never had this happen before. I'm running your Goog plugin, btw.

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
    Fatal error: Analytics 360° requires PHP 5 or greater. in /home/profi19/public_html/panam/wp-content/plugins/analytics360/analytics360.php on line 30

    Also, I do have Exec-PHP plugin running as well; I do know that it's for widgets, etc.

    What should I do? My host has CP/fantastico, of course.

    Jim

  32. By Adalberto Thu, July 16th, 2009 at 18:03

    Hi Joost,

    following error message by integration of google analytics:

    "The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:

    The site "http://com.br" has not been registered."

    I don't have idea of ocurred...
    help me pls

  33. By ruigato Fri, July 17th, 2009 at 14:55

    Just installed. Its a great plugin, thanks.

    The only feature it lacks its the ability to show in the authors dashboard also.

    That would be great for multi autored blogs

  34. By Jonathan Fri, July 17th, 2009 at 22:23

    Most excellent - downloading and re-uploading as I type this!! Can't wait to test this out!

  35. By Nicholas Z. Cardot Sat, July 18th, 2009 at 13:21

    I just added this to my blog. Thanks!

  36. By Renan Vaz Sat, July 18th, 2009 at 22:04

    following error message by integration of google analytics:

    "The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:

    The site "http://com.br" has not been registered."

    seems that this occurs because the. com.br poequ when you put only the. to test it does not show this error, you know how to circumvent this?

  37. By Renan Vaz Sat, July 18th, 2009 at 22:28

    ollowing error message by integration of google analytics:

    "The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:

    The site "http://com.br" has not been registered."

    seems that this occurs because the http://www.site.com.br because when you put only the http://www.site.com to test it does not show this error, you know how to circumvent this?

  38. By Dougal Campbell Mon, July 20th, 2009 at 19:31

    Hey, folks,

    Joost can't answer all your questions about this plugin. He's just spreading the word about it because he likes it.

    If you have problems, questions, or whatever specific to this plugin, please take them here:

    http://groups.google.com/group/analytics360-discussion

  39. By Deepti Tue, July 21st, 2009 at 07:18

    Really Joost de Valk it's superb plugin...:)

  40. By seosheffield Sun, July 26th, 2009 at 11:51

    Installed and working on 3 sites, thanks for tip off.

  41. By uncleboob Tue, July 28th, 2009 at 06:31

    This plugin is wicked. I use it for some weeks now and I'm very satisfied.
    Thanks for that article

  42. By lloydsbackyard Tue, July 28th, 2009 at 10:45

    hi, yeh google analytics is a nice plugin..

  43. By Tom Hermans Fri, July 31st, 2009 at 23:18

    Great plugin, been wanting something like this for some time, and, a good reason to switch to mailchimp, already loved their site and way of doing business, but this tops it.

    Tom - imagomedia.be

  44. By Dougal Campbell Tue, August 4th, 2009 at 14:55

    Hey Joost, I'm no expert on GA. Is there a way to pull in custom segments like this, or would that require more extensive plugin modifications?

  45. By Avşa Fri, August 7th, 2009 at 21:43

    Very nice plugin thank you

  46. By enoteware Mon, August 10th, 2009 at 01:06

    For some reason it's only showing my blog posts, not my pages. Most of my traffic lands on my pages, not posts. Anyway around this?

  47. By Yesenia Mon, August 10th, 2009 at 19:35

    Question: In your wordpress plugn page you included "Can I run this plugin together with another Google Analytics plugin? No. You can not. It will break tracking." Is "Analytics360" the exception to your rule?
    Thanks,

  48. By Ben Hebert Tue, August 11th, 2009 at 16:15

    Looks like a great thing to add to my site

  50. By Jay Thu, August 13th, 2009 at 21:25

    Very Cool! I absolutely love both the Mail Chimp and 360 plugins. They're great!

  51. By Kevin Thu, August 13th, 2009 at 23:41

    Another note of appreciation on this one. I have added it to my site and am now going totry Mail Chimp as well.

  52. By Sherwood Sun, August 16th, 2009 at 19:20

    This is one of the best sites I've seen dedicated towards wordpress and this right here has just made it even better.

    Thanks!

  53. By FamSoamiJal Tue, August 18th, 2009 at 01:16

    Simple source for lookup your request information, based on php variables.

  54. By John Paul Tue, August 18th, 2009 at 04:20

    This is great.. have been using your Google Analytics plugin for a while now,, works great.

    I have been thinking about dropping AWeber for a while now,, think it's time to make the move.

  55. By Angelita Tue, August 18th, 2009 at 14:05

    What's up Yoast! Thanks for the great plugin. I'd like to make it visible to all user categories of my wordpress website, is it possible?

  56. By Kuld33p Thu, August 20th, 2009 at 10:27

    Super Great plug in. thanks

  57. By Nick Stamoulis Thu, August 20th, 2009 at 18:16

    Some of the new Google analytics plug ins for WordPress are amazing. Being able to see the raw date for each blog post is amazing.

  58. By trivia quizzes Tue, August 25th, 2009 at 22:32

    Your content is very interesting, what template did you use on this blog?
    regards bhyibwdz

  59. By Vela Wed, August 26th, 2009 at 07:32

    Joost de Valk it's superb plugin!!!!

  60. By Make Money Online Blogging Wed, August 26th, 2009 at 09:39

    Lucky you, you can design your opt in request form,
    am not a php HTML guy
    you know how wrose "deafult" sign up form is there,

    You know how ugly it looks on IE,

    Just to prmote another web venture WUFOO they have inserted some really bad taste default design in Mailchimp.

    Look at the aweber, anyone can design opt-in sign up form in a second.

    -Shanker Bakshi

  61. By Modern Warfare 2 Flag Runner trailer Wed, September 2nd, 2009 at 17:27

    Fantastic website, must come back here , very interesting content, bookmarked your blog
    regards fuserarvh

  62. By True Blood s02e13 Mon, September 7th, 2009 at 18:55

    WOW, i like your blog theme, content is very interesting, bookmarked, regards

  63. By umx Mon, September 7th, 2009 at 23:18

    Is it just me or someone else got "Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_dashboard_page() in\analytics360.php " activating analytics360 plugin? I use WordPress 2.6.5 on nginx

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