One of our aims of the
Google Analytics Data Export API is to provide access to all the data you find in our reporting UI. To that end, we are releasing 127 new dimensions and metrics via the API today!
Unique visitors - ga:visitors metric has been updated to support the true number of unique visitors for any date range (instead of the daily unique visitors). It also supports significantly more valid combinations.Organic Searches - The number of organic searches within a session.10 new Adwords dimensions - Including Matched Query (what people searched for, not the bid term) and Placement Domain (which site you content ads were running on). Search Result Views - The number of times a search result page was viewed.3 Time dimensions - To simplify plotting graphs.complete list of the new dimensions and metrics in our public changelog.new interactive dimension and metric search tool . You can use this interactive tool to search for a dimension or metric using its search-as you-type feature. Even more exciting is the ability to easily determine valid dimension-metric combinations just by selecting the dimensions/metrics that you want to request. Here's a screenshot:
We hope that you will find this new tool and additional data useful. As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback, in our
developer group .
Posted by Jeetendra Soneja and Ivanna Kartarahardja, Google Analytics API team
