Improved Google Analytics Navigation
Google Analytics is a great tool. It’s free and powerful and we, marketers, use it daily in our work routine.
More than half a million websites are using Google Analytics and there should be quite a load on their servers. One thing they could improve is the navigation on the left side of the reports:
Google Analytics Navigation
What’s wrong with it? Every time you want to access a deeper report (i.e. Traffic Sources and then All Traffic Sources) you need to click and wait for the Overview page to load and only then you can choose All Traffic Sources.
I suggest hide/unhide navigation similar to Wordpress admin site:
Wordpress Admin Navigation
You click on the down arrow and a nice CSS is un-hiding all other reports (nothing is loading when you click on the down arrows of the navigation). Similarly, this should happen on Google Analytics too; you click on the report name, a drop menu shows up (nothing loads) and you have all the reports, including the Overview. Then you can choose what report you want to analyze.
No more automatic loads of the overview pages, please. You’re wasting bandwidth and our time. But I suppose Google knows that already and they will come up with a new interface soon ;)…just my guess
