Wouldn’t it be nice? Milestones in Google Analytics

Here’s my problem: I have to remember the date I made a change on a website if I want to do a simple before and after comparison in Google Analytics.

Google Analytics graph

Something happened on March 17, but you’d never know it by looking at Google Analytics.

What if Google Analytics let you place a simple marker on your timeline to help you remember events? It needn’t be any more complex than the dividend marker or news flags used to denote important events in Google Finance:

Google Finance dividend flag Google Finance news flags

Two types of milestones in Google Finance.

A simple visual indication is all the work required of a Google Analytics milestone. I can manipulate the date ranges and data views as needed, on my own—no “milestone comparer” or “milestone manager” functionality necessary.

Comments 3

  1. Aaron Greenlee wrote:

    Yes, that would be nice. I was hoping you had a solution allowing me to do just that.

    I’ll keep wishing.

    Posted 12 Jun 2009 at 4:19 pm
  2. Martin wrote:

    Yes, that would be great. Looks like it still isn’t :(.

    Posted 19 Jan 2010 at 4:01 pm
  3. Matt wrote:

    Annotations in GA just got rolled out to my account — hopefully they’re coming soon for everyone!

    Posted 20 Jan 2010 at 3:03 pm

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