GA Tools

Below is a list of Google Analytics tools and plugins. Some are stand alone applications while others are Grease Monkey scripts. A Grease Monkey script is a small add on for the FireFox browser. A Grease Monkey script will change how a website looks but only in your browser. Most GA Grease Monkey scripts add data to the standard GA reporting interface.

I’ve divided the list into two sections: tools that can help during setup and configuration and tools that can help with analysis and reporting.

If you’ve create a GA tool, or know of one that should be added to this list, please let me know.

Configuration Tools

Site Scan

Who: EpikOne, Inc.
What: A Google Anaytics configuration tool that scans your site for the GA page tags. SiteScan will also identify other site settings that may cause issues with your configuration, like query string parameters, multiple sub domains, non-html files, etc.
Where: http://www.sitescanga.com

Show All Profiles

Who: LunaMetrics
What: A Grease Monkey script that will display all rows in the admin profile list. This is a very useful script.
Where: http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2008/06/12/automatically-show-all-profiles-in-ga/

Goal Copy

Who: LunaMetrics
What: Automatically copy goals from one profile to another. Very useful if you are creating lots of duplicate profiles for a single website or a group of websites.
Where: http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2008/09/15/goal-copy-update/

Analysis and Reporting Tools

Social Media Metrics for Google Analytics

Who: VKI Studios
What: A Grease Monkey script that pulls certain social media metrics, like Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. for site pages into Google Analytics.
Where: http://blog.vkistudios.com/index.cfm/2008/10/10/Add-Mixx-and-Reddit-Vote-Counts-to-Google-Analytics-with-Greasemonkey

Keyword Trends

Who: Juice Analytics
What: This fantastic Grease Monkey script adds a button to your Keywords and Referrals report. One click and the report refreshes with an additional table that shows what has changed in your data. This is one of my favorite enhancements.
Where: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/keyword-trends-google-analytics-greasemonkey/

Google Analytics Report Enhancer

Who: ROI Revolution
What: Another Grease Monkey script… This one adds a number of segmentation options to the Dimension drop down box that appear on many reports. You can segment based on things like product name, product category, etc. GARE also adds the actual number of transactions to the Goal Conversions tab in addition to conversion rates. This script also recalculates the time on site metric using a different calculation.
Where: http://www.roirevolution.com/blog/2008/06/google_analytics_report_enhancer.html