Last friday Google publicly announced a new way to view traffic on your web site; by using the web site itself.
This is a replacement for the clumsy Site Overlay feature that has existed since the Urchin analytics system was absorbed by the software giant.
It looks like a great way to visualize the traffic on a site for others, and superb artillery in the ongoing conversation about The Fold.
I made a short screencast to demonstrate the current feature set:
I’m excited for a heatmap, a la crazyegg, otherwise I think this is a fantastic step forward.
- The Google Analytics Blog: Introducing In-Page Analytics: Visual context for your Analytics data”
- Google Analytics Help: In-Page Analytics: What is it?
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