HACKER Q&A
📣 caoxhua

Is there a market for a better Google Analytics client?


I use Google Analytics, mostly to see the number of users per day, which is good. I feel it's difficult to use for exploring other views, thought about a new client with a list of cards (templates), is there an existing GA client like this? is there a market for this type of client if building one?


  👤 ggm Accepted Answer ✓
It is impossible to combine data from different GA/UA segments into one report. You are told by google to instead use one segment and sub-specify. It means that if you opened the door to having multiple segments, (eg your organisational structure led you there) its a one-way hole.

A tool which can combine across different segments would be useful. I do it in Python outside GA.

The python3 bindings are pretty good. I would imagine you could write a data explorer in Electron, and allow it to combine the elements deep in the JSON to derive query statements which applied in the right way, make combined datasets

It's also impossible to combine segments into one GA "dashboard" -So there's a problem there for viewing status of all your trackers, cross-product.