One of the conditions I set for myself when I started this blog was that I would not, under any circumstances, spend too much time navel-gazing at web site traffic graphs. For a year now, I’ve been pretty successful–but I still want to know if some big spike or dip happens, and I don’t want to have to check by hand to see that. So, I’m pretty stoked about Google Analytics’ alerts feature. You set it to shoot you an email when something happens–like your traffic goes up more than 10% from where it was the day before–and you’re done. I like software that comes to me when something I care about happens. (That all said, Google Analytics is still a little too complicated and hairy for me at times; I’ve been meaning to try out Mint for awhile now, which looks simpler, but doesn’t appear to have alerts.) How do you track your site activity without staring at graphs every day?
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4 Comments
Jason Berberich
Hi Gina. As a long-time user of Mint, I just wanted to let you know that while notifications aren’t built-in to it, there is a third party notification pepper that might meet your basic needs.
If/when you get Mint, this is the direct link where you can get the latest version of that plugin.
Gina Trapani
Cool thanks Jason, I’ll check out that plug-in.
Ray Bentz
I use ga:pi() (the Google Analytics API PHP Interface) in a couple custom command-line PHP apps I’ve written. I run these from cron on my web server every night. They collect the data from GA that I’m interested in and email the results to me. I can browse through those emails real fast in the morning without having to go to GA directly and dig down into the stats by hand.
Derek del Barrio
Mint can do text/email alerts based on spending thresholds.
Mint is awesome, I use it to monitor my financial activity, daily. It is part of my end of the work day routine — sure I have to login — but it’s just one site instead of eight or so. And it’s been a good replacement for MS Money.