Google Analytics recently has posted a lot of videos to Conversion University Playlist on YouTube to give you a better understanding of what Google Analytics means and how you can start to interpret and act on your data.
There's also Google Analytics Interface Tutorial which teaches you to use the date-range selector to compare Mondays to Mondays.
You can also see the videos here:
Conversion University
Google Analytics Help Center
Google Operating System Blog today has added an useful post in order to how to find a topic from Google Help Center easier. I found it very useful, because sometimes for me it was complicated to find a specific topic in whole hierarchy of Google Help Center.
The simple trick is appending "?fulldump=1" to the address of a Google help center to get the topic directly.
Here are some help topics by using this trick:
Read more on Google OS.
Google Help Center.
The Official Google Analytics Blog recently added an article in order to importance and strategy of Website Optimization. An useful explanation that gives you a good understanding of how to discover what your visitor want to see with Website Optimizer, find your high-value landing pages, Funnel Visualization and which pages to test.
With Website Optimizer you can:
So the Google Website Optimizer Overview shows you an introduction including:
Here's Introduction to Website Optimizer
There's also Tutorials & Videos for beginner to website optimization to help get them up to speed.
Read more.
Get started with Google Website Optimizer.
Graphing data by hour, day, week or month is the new option added to Google Analytics. "The hour graphs are only available in some of the visitors reports and they could be helpful to find out the time of the day when most people visit your sites"(Google OS).
Read more.
Sign up for Google Analytics.
