5 must-have google analytics apps

The following is a mix of commercial and free applications that can help you get more out of your google analytics account.

1) Polaris (adobe air app)

Polaris is a cross-platform adobe air app for Google Analytics.

Features

• Cross-platform and easy to setup
• Dashboard gives you an overview of total visits, pageviews, pages/visit, bounce rate, average time on site, and % of new visitors
• Switch between different date ranges with using a drag and drop date widget
• Daily visitor charts
• Google maps integration (for viewing visitor locations)
• Reports for viewing the top 25 referring sites
• Learn which pages perform best
• The keywords report shows you which keywords are used mostly on organic searches

2) Analytics app (iPhone app)

Features

• Quick Overview Reports for at-a-glance data
• More Detailed Reports for deeper analysis
• Supports Multiple Accounts, Multiple Sites, change login anytime
• Change date range, chart granularity by Day/Week/Month
• Custom Reports and Goals

3) Ego (iPhone app)

Ego gives you one central location to check web statistics that matter to you. With support for Feedburner, Google Analytics, Google PageRank, Mint, Squarespace and Twitter. You can quickly view the number of visits to your website (including daily, hourly and monthly numbers), feed subscription totals and changes, and how many people are following you on Twitter.

4) Youcalc analytics suite (web-based service)

Features

• Designed to be run on a variety of platforms (iPhone, igoogle, and embedding in your own apps)
• Key metrics (visits, page views, conversions, etc.) – see the performance of all your key metrics in one chart
• Time/day distribution analyzer (Analyze your key metrics distributed by hour of day, day of week or day of month)
• Dimension analyzer (Analyze your top performing countries, landing pages, campaigns, keywords

5) Enhanced Google Analytics (firefox plugin)

This Firefox plugin is designed to allow analysts to get more action out of what changed in the Referring Sites and Keyword Reports. The addon pulls google data for different time-periods, and discovers new and insightful information for the user.