A new user interface analysis of Google Analytics's recent optimization

　　

I believe everyone has noticed the new user interface of GA today. Compared to the previous addition of a number of icons and font changes, but more importantly in the data loading speed has been significantly improved. For this, GA's official blog also gives an explanation. Here to refine the focus.

Visualization of the Add-in bar

This small feature allows you to better see the time it takes to load GA data. In fact, in the actual use, you want your network speed can also be basic in 2-3 seconds can be loaded completed. So the load bar is really flashing through. I almost didn't notice it when I opened GA today.

　　

Just load the report once

Each of the previous reports on GA requires a certain amount of time to load, and now GA has improved the mechanism: as long as you open a report, all the report data will be loaded into your computer's cache, which will always exist if you don't close Ga. More importantly, the data will also be synchronized to the data in the Google server as needed. You can see the following words at the bottom of each report. You will be able to understand the data synchronization situation.

　　

Percentage of coverage of autonomous control reports

What we all know is that the free version of GA is a sampling method for a site with a daily access rate greater than 500000. The default value for this number now turns to 250000. (meaning that you can still adjust to 500000) according to GA's explanation, this approach is conducive to increasing the loading speed of the report. And now GA has made some improvements to this mechanism, which is to allow users to choose the proportion of sampling.

　　

When you have more than 250000 visits to your site, the above icon appears in the upper-right corner of the report, telling you the sample you are currently reporting.

If you want to adjust this ratio, you can click on the square icon, and then you'll see

　　

Now you can easily adjust the ratio of data collection. Before you log out of GA, all reports will use your defined collection ratio. Here GA is proud to tell you that the mechanism of their data collection is so perfect that you will find that it is only necessary to collect a small number of samples to see a very accurate trend.

These are the changes that GA has made to increase the speed of the report loading. It is believed that small changes in these mechanisms, coupled with new interface design, will make it more comfortable to use GA.

Finally sell a small one. The new GA interface adds the following button

　　

Find out which reports have it, and try to see how it works.