Ways to Export Your Google Analytics DataWithout analyzing the data generated from your eCommerce website you can’t succeed in improving your business. With the help of Google Analytics you can now easily chop down the extensive amounts of data based on user engagement. Sometimes this data might not be enough to arrive at certain conclusions. For this you will have to find ways to get more data. In such cases you need to release your data by exporting them into a program. Thus, exporting data from Google Analytics has become an important task. 

The Google geniuses while designing the Google Analytics foresaw this requirement to extract data and due to this user can now easily export data with the help of several options available in the Google Analytics. There is more! You can also very easily export data by logging into your Google account, view the metric and then select an export type of file like CSV, TSV, or PDF. Once the data is exported, you can open it in your analysis tool. This takes only a few minutes and works well in most cases.

 

However, this becomes a time consuming task if you are regularly exporting more than one metric. There are several tools that can help you export these data more efficiently. To make things easier for you, here we offer a list of tools and their benefits that will help you to decide the best tool that suits your business.

 

Google Analytics Query Explorer 

The Google Analytics API can be utilized in an efficient manner for repeatedly exporting data. Accessing your data using API may be a bit too technical. However, there are a lot of paid and free tools available that can ease the process. With Google Analytics Query Explorer, you can easily design and test a query, which is actually a piece of code that will help you to retrieve information from any database. Once you have a well tested query, you can utilize the query and data in your analysis program.

 

Excellent Analytics Excel Plugin 

Even though you can write queries on your own, using the Google Analytics API and use them to retrieve data. There are several tools available to directly input data into the Excel. Excellent Analytics, which is a free Excel plugin offers user interface in your worksheet and export data directly into your worksheet. Once you get your data, you can easily analyze them. If this is not what you are searching for your business, you have several options in Google Analytics Application Gallery.

 

Paid Options

 

Google Analytics Apps offers several elegant paid reporting options that can be easily integrated with your Google Analytics account. The benefits of these paid tools are that they proper documentation, have quick setup, and excellent customer support. Most of these apps offer readily designed dashboards. Some apps like BellaDati Business Intelligence, provide options that can help you integrate Google Analytics data and the data from other sources along with the statistical analysis.

 

Now, which tool is right for the job? 

The right tool for your business depends on your needs and your limitations. Paid tools offer best customer support. Tools like Pentaho lack documentation and support. However, the platform is almost free of cost and is highly flexible. Excellent Analytics and Excel combined together makes the implementation simpler and creates a top class analysis tool.

Lastly, if you are well established and facing problems in analyzing your own data, then the best way out is to hire a professional who love to play with numbers. 

Here we have highlighted some of the best options for your business. Still, there are several other tools out there in the market with a variety of applications. There are other noteworthy Analytics tools that might be helpful like Google BigQuery, Google Refine, Weka and IBM SPSS. We will discuss them sometime later.

At The Growth Story we help businesses to grow by helping them make better decisions based on the collected data.