Google Analytics is a great service and it’s used by many. One of the features that I like about Google Analytics is – sharing your reports with others.
Sometimes advertisers or potential partners would ask for your blog’s/website’s traffic statistics. And in this time of fraud and forgery, screenshots won’t simply do it (perhaps this might do). They want to see the real, live statistics. So, in this kind of situations G.Analytics’ “share reports” feature is a great solution.
Sharing your reports is easy, can be done in 3 simple steps.
1. Login to your G.Analytics account and go to your overview page of your reports. At the end of the page you will see a link “User Manager”, click it.
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2. Next page will show you the list of emails (people) who have access to your reports. If it is your first time, you will only see your own email. Click on the “Add User” link.
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3. Enter the person’s Gmail, yes it should be gmail and not any other email. And select the access type, you can either make the person “admin” or “view only”. After that, choose the report of the site(s) for him to view, in case if you have more than one site being tracked by G.Analytics.
Note: Be careful when making strangers admin of your reports.
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That’s it. Now the person can login to his Google Account (Analytics) and see your reports inside his account. You can remove the person from your reports anytime.
thanks for telling us about that. I guess its good.
I’ve had to resort to other analytics services before this. It’s great to hear this is finally available.
This is a good tip. Thx.
Thanks you for this great info. Yeah, you are right, screen shots simply do not cut it any more. You need more proof – how many times I have heard that.
Your article is going to make my life easier and richer maybe :)
Thank you,
The fact that you can share the analytics is really good. I was with a company which was using Yahoo Analytics and I had to be given copies of the info, rather than being able to receivethe whole lot. Google is amazing!
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ehm. its really a good idea. I never you google analytic before. Might be this really a good chance to try it.
Don’t set customers to Admin, whatever you do! View Only will suffice. Personally I prefer printing out and giving customers their monthly reports hard copy. Having them fooling around and changing things are a big no-no.
Nice little guide there.
I always thought screenies were always innacurate, as it’s so easy to change the digits on the left.
I personally use Woopra, which I find to be alot moe consistent
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Really good article, I used GA for all of my websites and despite providing customers with logins to GA using the user manager option – they still end up asking me how their site is performing!!
I only wish that you could track visitors IP addresses and hostnames, so that I could block IP’s that I dont want visiting my sites e.g. competitors!
I normally use stat couter but I might switch now. Thanks
very, very useful tip. i’ve been printing to pdf and email our management team… now i can make it self service.
Is there any way to allow users limited access to see the stats on specific pages of your site?
I haven’t idea about this feature of Google Analytics Reports. Thanks for information.
Google Analytics is the best way for tracking
I guess I’m not gonna share my analytic account with other people to prevent fraud. Um is there any option that we can use to limit the access what other user can view?
@Kek, you can schedule the system to email a recipient a PDF of your analytics.
Nice sharing I will do share Analytics report with my friend, He also want to learn how can we see out site’s traffic.