YemKay

Google Analytics (GA) is a free website tracking system offered by Google. Tracked statistics include visits, contents and traffic and the tracked data can be used to take strategic decisions about the website. GA shows nice charts and graphs of page views, time on site, geographical location and many other collected statistics.

GA also exposes raw data which can be exported in various formats like XML, CSV and PDF. Google Analytics, in my sense, lacks another important feature: sharability. The profile configured in the GA account could only be shared in individual basis which is done using the shared user’s Google account. Thus the GA system doesn’t allow the webmasters to share the site’s analytical details with the visitors who anonymously access the website.

To address this problem, I’ve developed a widget service which enables the site owners to share the site’s statistical data with the visitors. All you have to do is to share the GA profile with our Google account, which fetches the XML data and prepares Flash based charts that can be embedded on your web pages. It takes just few minutes to create a widget for your site and you can create as many widgets as you want. At present, only one widget type is available which shows the chart for visits information.

Follow these steps to create a widget for your site,

• Share your GA profile with
• Register with your profile id and Google account
• Select the widget type (Only one, Visits Statistics, is available as of now)
• Choose the statistics, time line and the widget size.
• Copy and Paste the embed code on your site

This widget below shows the visits statistics for this site, …

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