Ask HN: Is there any way to fix the new Google Analytics UI?

5 points by debacle 3y ago ↗ HN

It looks like Google has rolled out a very anti-user update to Analytics.

We have a report on traffic by URL broken out by query string that we use weekly. Right now that report is unusable, and if I try and query I can only query by page title, not URL and definitely not query string.

Is there a way to revert this update, or tell Google "I know what a URL is, please stop this."

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Pakdef 3y ago ↗

Why do you insist on using Google?

PaulHoule 3y ago ↗

My impression is that the web analytics space is not very competitive.

Pakdef 3y ago ↗

There are many alternatives, there's some listed in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888599

XCSme 3y ago ↗

https://github.com/newTendermint/awesome-analytics#general-a...

fsflover 3y ago ↗

One can fix it by using a good alternative like this: https://matomo.org.

minusf 3y ago ↗

that might fix many things but not the ui.

debacle 3y ago ↗

We use matomo, but we also make use of Google Analytics and a few other tools as well.