ergophobe - 3:41 pm on May 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Honestly, I can't believe that they put all of this effort into a new interface and they don't bother to offer some basic functionality like full referrer URL n(at least not natively, though it can sort of be hacked in).

I would say that perhaps the most useful thing an analytics package can do is identify which pages are sending you traffic. If anyone from Google is reading... Ideal drill down:

- referring domain
- referring URL up to? (to filter out session IDs and such if relevant)
- referring URL and query string - so I can find out which forum post or blog post actually mentions my site.

Other than that, I played around a bit last night with GA and generally found the interface made many common tasks quicker, but there are still a few I haven't found yet. Overall, yup it feels like kndergarten and, to be honest once again, there's nothing wrong with simplicity as long as you can still get to all the info.