GAget - Google Analytics Widget for OS X
Google Analytics on your Dashboard
Either you’re a web developer, blogger or anyone with a website, you probably use Google Analytics to collect and process crucial data about your site’s visitors.
If you’re using OS X you will love this dashboard widget!
The current version is 1.2.2. Changelog
Got questions? Check out the FAQ section!
Features
- See the important information of the day without any clutter
- Check out the number of your visits for the last two weeks
- See the rate of new visitors and bouncers
- Refresh data with one click or wait for the automatic refresh
- Automaticaly check for updates
- Easily switch between profiles
- View one, two or four weeks' data
- Change the chart between visitors, new visitors rate and bouncers rate
More information
Although GAget is completely free, you could buy me a coffee if you enjoy using the widget!
For the development I used Dashcode, jQuery, the Google Analytics API and the 4 part series of James Litten about HTML 5 canvas. I used some icons from the awesome IconSweets pack and I got some inspiration from Adrian Kenny and Rovingrob.
Mac OS X ® is a trademark of Apple, Google Analytics ™ is a trademark of Google.
About the developer
My name is Zoltan Hosszu and I have been a professional web designer for 10 years now. In all my work I try to create aesthetic and usable things so when it comes to website designing I’m proud to say that I create pixel perfect web design.
This is my first OS X widget and it's only the first release, so if you find any bugs or problems with it, give me a shout at my website or at Twitter and I will try to fix it in the next version.
FAQ
You need to be running OS X (10.5 at least) and a Google Analytics account. If you don't have one of these, downloading this widget is pointless.
After you downloaded the ZIP file, with the nice blue button above, you need to uncompress it and open the GAget.wdgt. OS X should ask you if you're sure about installing the widget on your Dashboard, you should press Install (if you're sure :P). The first time you run GAget you should automatically end up on the back of the widget, the Settings. You need to fill in your Google account information then press Authenticate. If you did everything right, you will be able to select the Analytics profile you wish to display on the front. Select one, press the Save button, and enjoy!
Widget information in OS X work like cookies in your browser: every information is stored on the machine you're using the widget on, so make sure you're using it on a personal or safe computer. Your computer communicates directly with Google so the information doesn't travel through other servers. When you remove the widget, every information stored for this widget is also removed so you can safely delete it.
GAget connects to Google's API using ClientLogin method for authentication and sends your data securely only to Google.
However I understand if you have some doubts using your Google account information, but it's necessary to do that for authentication with Google. If you don't trust me, you can always right click the widget file, click "Show package content" and look for the main.js file as that is the controller file of the widget. If you know JavaScript you should be able to find your way around in it and see that the information is only submitted to Google. But if you still don't trust the widget, please don't use it. It's easier for the both of us :)
For the full information, I must let you know that GAget connects to zoltanhosszu.com to get the latest version number, so it can display the "Update 1.x" badge, but no data is sent to my server, only recieved by GAget.
Yes! This feature has been added in 1.0.5 update, so place as many of it on your dashboard as you want!
Unfortunately refreshing a widget in OS X Dashboard is quite buggy, sometimes you need to log out and in again to see changes. If nothing seems to work, the best way to update is to first open the "Widgets" widget and manually remove GAget. Then download the latest version from here and install it onto your dashboard. If this doesn't help open Terminal from Applications / Utilities and type the following command: killall Dock
Open Terminal from Applications / Utilities and type the following command: killall Dock . This will restart your Dock and Dashboard and all the widgets, fixing any bug present due to the update.