Web Analytics Education: Keeping a local copy of your data

We created a series to teach you about the best free tool (and in my opinion the best tool, period) for web analytics: Google Analytics.

Today a little known trick.
How do I get a backup of my Google Analytics data? If you’re a coder at heart this information is fun, if you’re not it’s just not. Proceed with caution and make sure you have tons of space on your servers.

The code is below the video and presentation.

The video:


The presentation:

[hana-code-insert name=’WA-2010-09-07′ /]

http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=4&utmn=769876874&utmhn=example.com&utmcs=ISO-8859-1
&utmsr=1280x1024&utmsc=32-bit&utmul=en-us&utmje=1&utmfl=9.0%20%20r115&utmcn=1
&utmdt=GATC012%20setting%20variables&utmhid=2059107202&utmr=0&utmp=/auto/GATC012.html?
utm_source=www.gatc012.org&utm_campaign=campaign+gatc012&utm_term=keywords+gatc012
&utm_content=content+gatc012&utm_medium=medium+gatc012&utmac=UA-30138-1
&utmcc=__utma%3D97315849.1774621898.1207701397.1207701397.1207701397.1%3B...

This information is available on the Google Code site with a detailed explanation of what the parameters are.

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