Open Thread: Options for Embedding

[gbinal]

Services - Free?

• http://oocharts.com/
• http://www.google.com/analytics/apps/about?app_id=421002
• https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/articles/gdataAnalyticsCharts

Services - Paid?

• http://www.embeddedanalytics.com/

Code Solutions

• http://analytics-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/reporting/javascript/ez-ga-dash/docs/user-documentation.html#register
  • Demo: http://analytics-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/reporting/javascript/ez-ga-dash/demos/set-demo.html

Deprecated?

• http://blog.explainum.com/2011/04/how-to-add-google-analytics-chart-to.html
  • archive.org

[gbinal]

A suite from the Gov.UK folks - https://github.com/alphagov?query=performance

[gbinal]

Good options

• Embed API // Demo - (but can it work without authorizing and is it private?)
• http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/automate-google-analytics-reporting.html
• another google code example
• GA Super Proxy

Here's more research

• GA apps
• wordpress plugin
• V. old model
• another paid service

[gbinal]

To provide a summary from all of the above...

Right now, I believe that the best candidates are:

1. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/embed/v1/
2. https://github.com/alphagov?query=performance
3. https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/articles/gdataAnalyticsCharts
4. http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/automate-google-analytics-reporting.html
5. https://github.com/googleanalytics/google-analytics-super-proxy

Also note that underlying 1) and 5) would appear to be:

• https://github.com/googleanalytics/embed-api-demos
• https://github.com/googleanalytics/google-analytics-super-proxy

[gbinal]

Another good option though, magic script. As one summary writes about it:

Simply put, Google’s Magic Script makes accessing Google Analytics from within Google Spreadsheets as easy as falling off a log.

[meiqimichelle]

@gbinal If you're looking for interactive charts on our site, I'd try Highcharts first:
http://www.highcharts.com/demo/line-ajax

Or, are you looking for something that can be taught and relatively easily replicated at other agencies with access to Google Apps?

[gbinal]

@meiqimichelle - I'm pretty neutral. All I'm looking for is ease of use (and yes, replication) in getting a chart or graph in a website page that is automatically maintained by the Google Analytics API.