
Después de la "release" de la nueva versión "beta" de Google Analytics, queríamos recoger las impresiones de Avinash. No tuvimos mucho tiempo para preguntar todo o que quisimos, pero almenos pudimos recoger algunas de sus palabras. Queremos agradecer a Avinash su colaboración y su rápida respuesta y entusiasmo. La entrevista la hemos querido conservar, tal y como es, en inglés. Si alguien tiene problemas al comprenderla, no hay problema,que nos lo comunique y lo traduciremos para todos a lo largo del día de hoy.
1.When did you relationship with webanalytics began?¿How did you ge tinto it?
I have always worked with Decision Support Systems after I got my MBA. Most of my experience, still, is in the world of data warehouses, business intelligence and advanced analytics.
My first introduction to web analytics was five years ago at Intuit. I started fresh there, with absolutely no experience, the title of a Manager and one employee.
I picked the job because I am a huge fan of the web and I felt it was about time I dipped into decision making on the web.
2.¿How makes you feel to be considered the best webanalyst in the world?
This is not true. Not even close to the truth.
3.¿How much have you influenced the new release of Google Analytics?
I am a very small part of a wonderful team at Google that works on the Analytics product.
I am very very passionate about creating tools that help Analysts, novices or experienced, find actionable insights. I play a small role in bringing that perspective to the team. There are other very smart people at Google who also provide input.
What you see is the result of that collective work by the team.
4.This new release is been great, a big step through for google analytics and is been welcome for thousands or millions of users of the Google Analytics community. But let´s talk about things that people may think that can be improved.
¿Why Google Analytics do not consider having “custom metrics”, like Omniture and Yahoo Webanalytics, since this could be very useful and save lots of time for many companies and employees, that wouldn´t then need to export data to excel and work conversion ratios live in Google Analytics?
Let me share my personal bias (not Google’s, my bias). I am not sure that the ability to create even more metrics is the main the hurdle to making good decisions based on clickstream data.
We have enough metrics.
We don’t know what to do with them. We don’t know how to understand the data correctly. We don’t know how to find real things that move and shift that an impact our bottom-line.
My hope is each vendor first focuses on solving that problem.
It is easy to puke data out. It is easy to make tools complex. It is easy to make to tools that are so powerful that they can report data and do the flamenco.
So when I think of what to tackle first, top of my mine are the problems above.
Having the ability to create custom metrics is of marginally incremental value and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that GA, or all tools, will have that functionality.
5.User path reports are important…and perhaps are one of the weakest points of the software compared to others….
¿Is Google Analytics going to improve user path reports? ¿And site overlay? ¿Perhaps integration with Google Optimizer?
You have five questions there, let me try to separate them and try to answer them.
If you are referring to unstructured experience (for example: “what is the most common path people follow on my site”). My personal opinion is that with the web becoming much “flatter” and significantly more rich media driven, that path analysis is mostly a waste of time. I outline my personal point of view here:
Path Analysis: A Good Use of Time?
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2006/05/path-analysis-a-good-use-of-time.html
With regards to Site Overlay, I am a fan of that report (especially site overlay in ClickTracks is fantastic). In GA it does not always work well. This is a source of eternal sadness for me, and I hope it will be upgraded.
It is already possible to integrate Website Optimizer and Analytics through a "hack", please see this post from my friends at ROI Revolution:
http://www.roirevolution.com/blog/2007/04/google_website_optimizer_and_google_analytics_use.html
6.¿Which is your favourite Google Analytics report?
I love the Keyword Positions Report, mostly because it is a fantastic example of displaying multi-dimensional data in a way that even a small child could understand and take action on.
If it were a feature you were referring to then without a doubt it would be Advanced Segmentation.
7.
¿Which report or functionality would you improve right now if you could with magic?
If you mean a report: Site Overlay.
If you mean features then I am greedy and the list is really really long.
Thanks very much Avinash for your attention and your always interesting answers.
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