http://community.homeaway.com/groups/online-marketing-for-property-managers/blog All Things Online Marketing for Vacation Rental Managers: SEO, SEM, Social Media, Booking Engines, Web Design, Email Marketing, PPC and Wordpress. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:24:03 GMT Jive SBS 4.5.6.3 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2011-10-30T12:24:03Z http://community.homeaway.com/groups/online-marketing-for-property-managers/blog/2011/10/30/a-quick-way-to-improve-your-google-analytics-reports <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:52b9094c-bc63-48ab-b395-f8f6aa62c0ac] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>The &ldquo;new&#8221; version of Google Analytics has several new reports that are worth studying.&#160;&#160; One report I like is the &ldquo;site speed&#8221; report which is newly available in Google Analytics&#8230; it simply tells you how fast your website loads on average and also breaks down specific pages for analysis.</p><p>In order to make this new feature work you have to add a snippet of code to your tracking scripts: &ldquo;_gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);&#8221;&#160; You can read all about<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/05/measure-page-load-time-with-site-speed.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> how site speed works and how to add the tracking script</a> on the Google Analytics Blog.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/galt_blog.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5495" height="347" src="http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/galt_blog.png" title="site speed screen shot from google analytics" width="564"/></a></p><p><br/>The other 90 second improvement I made to my Google Analytics reporting was to <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com/analytics-webmaster-tools/2011/10/14/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">integrate it with my existing Google Webmaster Tools account</a>.</p><p>Both these steps are worth the few seconds required!</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:52b9094c-bc63-48ab-b395-f8f6aa62c0ac] --> google analytics google_analytics website_speed loadtime Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:24:03 GMT community-no-reply@homeaway.com http://community.homeaway.com/groups/online-marketing-for-property-managers/blog/2011/10/30/a-quick-way-to-improve-your-google-analytics-reports 2011-10-30T12:24:03Z 1 year, 7 months ago 1 0 http://community.homeaway.com/groups/online-marketing-for-property-managers/blog/comment/a-quick-way-to-improve-your-google-analytics-reports http://community.homeaway.com/groups/online-marketing-for-property-managers/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1494