New graph views in Beta

Google again shows they listen to their Analytics users by adding another feature in Beta which allows you to change graph views to weekly and monthly views.

What can you get out of these new graph views?

The most important benefit is being able to detect trends over time. Not just for overall website traffic but more so for the different segments of traffic (whether search engine traffic, or as detailed as particular keywords) and more importantly (if revenue is what drives your site) goals reached over time.

It’s obivous it’s still in beta though - the graph labels you’d usually get while hovering over the graph (displaying the date and whatever metric you’re viewing) don’t always show for some reason, especially with the monthly view.

Well done Google, keep those new (useful) features coming!

Update: The graphs are very much in Beta still. The graph on the Dashboard looks fine, but for some reason my visitors overview didn’t look quite right. No data for yesterday and today?? Obviously another bug…