Over the past few months we've received a lot of great feedback from our
developers about what they wanted to see in the Google Analytics API. Today we're
excited to announce new powerful and flexible features to the Google Analytics Data Export API
including:
Support for Advanced Segments
With advanced segmentation,
you can look beyond the totals and into the nuances of the data for your site. For example,
the average time on site for all visits could be 60 seconds, but when you segment by country,
you might learn that average time on site of visits from Poland is over 2 minutes.
So we've added two new ways to use advanced segments through the
API:
Create them on the fly by specifying their expression directly through
an API query.
Use advanced segments created in the Google Analytics web
interface through the API.
This video describes exactly what advanced
segments do and how you can use them with the API.
Goal
5-20 and Configuration Data
With the recent Google Analytics
v4 launch enabling up to 20 goals, many of you asked for access to this valuable data, and we
listened. Now there are 48 new metrics to access goal performance. We've also added all the
goal configuration data, including name, type, step names for each profile.
Here's a great video describing the depth of the goal configuration data.
Custom Variables
Custom variables are powerful
new ways to describe visitors, visits and pages within Google Analytics. In this new release,
we've added 10 new dimensions to access custom variable data. In addition, every custom
variable that you've used is now available through the Account Feed.
