2. Is there a way to get alerts on a max spending amount? If I have a $10 a day campaign, and I only want to spend $500 total, can it it alert me to when that happens?
It works by reading your Google Analytics data. If your Youtube ads account could push Goals or Events, you could check Goal or Event value and compare it to your desired amount.
A: Hello, the only necessary thing is that you would have at least read-only access to Google Analytics. StatsGlitch won't need any other permissions, won't (and can't) access any other data.
So from that point, if you can access GA from Google Business account - it will work.
Google is fantastic at building big things, but it's always slow and lack of extra functionality. Google most likely never will integrate 3rd parties like Zapier or Slack, for the legal issues. You won't probably see Reports branding or message translation features. Finally, we have some plans expanding to other data sources, which would never happen on Google too.
So we don't think that StatsGlitch will become redundant anytime soon, but any other competitor is unavoidable, and that's the reality. However, we believe that adjusting the product to the users' problems is the right path. Sometimes smaller, but essential features for your business, which would large corporations never implement.
That's awesome to hear that you will bring in data from other platforms. Hope you are talking about alerts for other major platforms like facebook, linkedIn, instagram or twitter, etc?
What kind of eta can we expect for the next platform?
I'm assuming Sumoling customers will get the future platforms too?
Right now, we're in the process of polishing Google Analytics integration, so it's way too early to promise ETAs. Although we're thinking about expanding data sources, we're not sure yet how exactly (some are possible via GA source/medium, others via direct implementation), and which ones first. I don't want to promise on things we aren't 100% sure yet, but of course, if it will go under the "Agency" plan, all Sumo-lings will get it for free.
Q: Ok so this is probably a legendarily stupid question but here goes LOL..
why would someone need StatsGlitch? When would anyone need to know to that level of detail what was happening in their account. Now I'm NOT saying that monitoring your account(s) aren't important. But to get an alert that yesterday you had 100 visitors and today by the same time you only have 88 visitors, is that really cause for high concern? I apologize in advance I'm really trying to understand. Aside from say orgs running with MONSTER budgets where pennies could mean 100's of 1000's in $$ who would need that type of realtimeness? Again apologies, I'm not trying to be rude I really want to understand. But especially based on the types of triggers available I just don't get it. Thank you so much in advance!!!
You're entirely right in a point that knowing that you've got 88 visitors compared to 100 won't bring you any value.
However, the real value is behind tracking your KPIs, usually defined as Google Analytics Goals and Events. Having >100 signups every day and immediately jumping to 88 might be not a disaster, but a fact you should keep in mind. Or having >100 sales every day and one day have an alert for a drop to 88, another day it drops to 50, and you can say that there's a problem.
Similarly, tracking plain old traffic metrics might not be so valuable, but if you would track your link-building campaign or one day, your referral partner starts to send not 1000 of visitors, but 700, then it might be. If it's not a disaster, you should have this in mind.
StatsGlitch also might not be relevant to you, if:
A) You have just a hobby project where you don't care that much of traffic changes, you don't do any marketing campaigns, and you don't have "conversion" (usually a sale or signup). In that case, the only thing I see that could be helpful to you is weekly overview reports. Having a non-intrusive once-in-a-week report of your traffic might be valuable even for the most straightforward websites. And it's also free, with a StatsGlitch basic account. B) You're regularly checking your Google Analytics. You've polished your stack and completely happy about it. Although StatsGlitch provides some functionality which GA lacks and might even never have (like Slack or Zapier integration), you might not also miss it. We might say that StatsGlitch will save your time (that you won't need to check GA daily), but you might be a GA wizard and that wouldn't be a problem to you at all.
So to conclude - you might be right that StatsGlitch won't solve Your problems. But there's still a lot of value for users who have KPIs, sales, signups in their websites, which are not GA gurus, and any help to understand their metrics brings benefit to their businesses.
First ty for your reply. Please understand that I wasn't trying to be insulting I am sure that SG is an AMAZING product, the reviews so far are all 5 tacos so WELL DONE! And its not that the data you referenced in your reply isn't valuable, its all very valuable, but is it something that someone needs to know within 15min? Obviously KPI's are crucial otherwise they wouldn't be called KPI's ;)...I'm was just trying to understand who would need to know that data that quickly, bc its pretty close to real time reporting. Again, thank you very much for taking the time to reply and with such a thorough answer at that!! Viva la StatsGlitch!!! :)
Hello, I appreciate your attitude of politely questioning things.
Speaking about KPIs urgency "but is it something that someone needs to know within 15min? ", StatsGlitch has three tiers of it:
1) Weekly Overview Reports, they're sent to you every week. It's the most non-intrusive way to stay aware of your metrics without actually looking on Google Analytics. As you'll see those only once a week, it's recommended to add medium importance metrics, usually sessions, users, but you're also free to add Goals, Bounce Rate.
2) Statistically Significant and Custom alerts are sent every day (for yesterday data). Your KPIs should go there by default, to understand whenever something is happening on your website. In terms of urgency, "yesterday" seems to be an excellent sweet spot between "week ago" and "now".
3) Real-Time alerts are sending every 5-15 minutes. Only in some cases with some specific KPIs, you would need those. A good example would be an extremely profitable deal that you would like to process asap or a sales lead which can vanish quickly. Also, people want to setup Real-Time alerts to just celebrate KPIs. We're all humans after all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As you see, every user can decide which metrics they value the most and go once a week/day/5min route, depending upon actual needs.
I would encourage you to create a forever free account on StatsGlitch and try it by yourself. You can unlink and permanently delete your account at any time, so you're not risking anything. I believe, that any tool helping to understand your analytics is a useful tool, but if you don't love analytics, why you've installed GA in the first place? :)
Q: As written on the AppSumo Sales page we get "Lifetime access to StatsGlitch's Agency Plan" and we get "All future Business plan updates".
So am I right that we don't get future updates of the Agency Plan?
That's a typo. At the beginning of the deal, it was a business plan, but then we extended it to be an Agency. I'll reach out to the AppSumo team to change this.
This means all Sumo-lings will have lifetime agency plan and its future updates.
Q: Hi 1.
Does this work for youtube ads?
2. Is there a way to get alerts on a max spending amount? If I have a $10 a day campaign, and I only want to spend $500 total, can it it alert me to when that happens?
Arminas_StatsGlitch
May 15, 2024A: Hello,
It works by reading your Google Analytics data. If your Youtube ads account could push Goals or Events, you could check Goal or Event value and compare it to your desired amount.
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Q: Please answer before the Deal leaves.
Will things support Google my Business. Please Answer
Arminas_StatsGlitch
May 15, 2024A: Hello, the only necessary thing is that you would have at least read-only access to Google Analytics. StatsGlitch won't need any other permissions, won't (and can't) access any other data.
So from that point, if you can access GA from Google Business account - it will work.
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Q: What's stopping Google from providing the key features in your software directly that would make you application redundant?
Do you have any legal protection or work with Google closely to avoid these potential future issues?
Arminas_StatsGlitch
May 14, 2024A: Hello,
Google is fantastic at building big things, but it's always slow and lack of extra functionality. Google most likely never will integrate 3rd parties like Zapier or Slack, for the legal issues. You won't probably see Reports branding or message translation features. Finally, we have some plans expanding to other data sources, which would never happen on Google too.
So we don't think that StatsGlitch will become redundant anytime soon, but any other competitor is unavoidable, and that's the reality. However, we believe that adjusting the product to the users' problems is the right path. Sometimes smaller, but essential features for your business, which would large corporations never implement.
Share StatsGlitch
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That's awesome to hear that you will bring in data from other platforms. Hope you are talking about alerts for other major platforms like facebook, linkedIn, instagram or twitter, etc?
What kind of eta can we expect for the next platform?
I'm assuming Sumoling customers will get the future platforms too?
Hello,
Right now, we're in the process of polishing Google Analytics integration, so it's way too early to promise ETAs. Although we're thinking about expanding data sources, we're not sure yet how exactly (some are possible via GA source/medium, others via direct implementation), and which ones first. I don't want to promise on things we aren't 100% sure yet, but of course, if it will go under the "Agency" plan, all Sumo-lings will get it for free.
Q: Ok so this is probably a legendarily stupid question but here goes LOL..
why would someone need StatsGlitch? When would anyone need to know to that level of detail what was happening in their account. Now I'm NOT saying that monitoring your account(s) aren't important. But to get an alert that yesterday you had 100 visitors and today by the same time you only have 88 visitors, is that really cause for high concern? I apologize in advance I'm really trying to understand. Aside from say orgs running with MONSTER budgets where pennies could mean 100's of 1000's in $$ who would need that type of realtimeness? Again apologies, I'm not trying to be rude I really want to understand. But especially based on the types of triggers available I just don't get it. Thank you so much in advance!!!
Arminas_StatsGlitch
May 14, 2024A: Hello,
Thank you, that's a really great question.
You're entirely right in a point that knowing that you've got 88 visitors compared to 100 won't bring you any value.
However, the real value is behind tracking your KPIs, usually defined as Google Analytics Goals and Events. Having >100 signups every day and immediately jumping to 88 might be not a disaster, but a fact you should keep in mind. Or having >100 sales every day and one day have an alert for a drop to 88, another day it drops to 50, and you can say that there's a problem.
Similarly, tracking plain old traffic metrics might not be so valuable, but if you would track your link-building campaign or one day, your referral partner starts to send not 1000 of visitors, but 700, then it might be. If it's not a disaster, you should have this in mind.
StatsGlitch also might not be relevant to you, if:
A) You have just a hobby project where you don't care that much of traffic changes, you don't do any marketing campaigns, and you don't have "conversion" (usually a sale or signup). In that case, the only thing I see that could be helpful to you is weekly overview reports. Having a non-intrusive once-in-a-week report of your traffic might be valuable even for the most straightforward websites. And it's also free, with a StatsGlitch basic account.
B) You're regularly checking your Google Analytics. You've polished your stack and completely happy about it. Although StatsGlitch provides some functionality which GA lacks and might even never have (like Slack or Zapier integration), you might not also miss it. We might say that StatsGlitch will save your time (that you won't need to check GA daily), but you might be a GA wizard and that wouldn't be a problem to you at all.
So to conclude - you might be right that StatsGlitch won't solve Your problems. But there's still a lot of value for users who have KPIs, sales, signups in their websites, which are not GA gurus, and any help to understand their metrics brings benefit to their businesses.
Share StatsGlitch
First ty for your reply. Please understand that I wasn't trying to be insulting I am sure that SG is an AMAZING product, the reviews so far are all 5 tacos so WELL DONE! And its not that the data you referenced in your reply isn't valuable, its all very valuable, but is it something that someone needs to know within 15min? Obviously KPI's are crucial otherwise they wouldn't be called KPI's ;)...I'm was just trying to understand who would need to know that data that quickly, bc its pretty close to real time reporting. Again, thank you very much for taking the time to reply and with such a thorough answer at that!! Viva la StatsGlitch!!! :)
Hello, I appreciate your attitude of politely questioning things.
Speaking about KPIs urgency "but is it something that someone needs to know within 15min? ", StatsGlitch has three tiers of it:
1) Weekly Overview Reports, they're sent to you every week. It's the most non-intrusive way to stay aware of your metrics without actually looking on Google Analytics. As you'll see those only once a week, it's recommended to add medium importance metrics, usually sessions, users, but you're also free to add Goals, Bounce Rate.
2) Statistically Significant and Custom alerts are sent every day (for yesterday data). Your KPIs should go there by default, to understand whenever something is happening on your website. In terms of urgency, "yesterday" seems to be an excellent sweet spot between "week ago" and "now".
3) Real-Time alerts are sending every 5-15 minutes. Only in some cases with some specific KPIs, you would need those. A good example would be an extremely profitable deal that you would like to process asap or a sales lead which can vanish quickly. Also, people want to setup Real-Time alerts to just celebrate KPIs. We're all humans after all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As you see, every user can decide which metrics they value the most and go once a week/day/5min route, depending upon actual needs.
I would encourage you to create a forever free account on StatsGlitch and try it by yourself. You can unlink and permanently delete your account at any time, so you're not risking anything. I believe, that any tool helping to understand your analytics is a useful tool, but if you don't love analytics, why you've installed GA in the first place? :)
Q: As written on the AppSumo Sales page we get "Lifetime access to StatsGlitch's Agency Plan" and we get "All future Business plan updates".
So am I right that we don't get future updates of the Agency Plan?
Arminas_StatsGlitch
May 15, 2024A: Hello,
That's a typo. At the beginning of the deal, it was a business plan, but then we extended it to be an Agency. I'll reach out to the AppSumo team to change this.
This means all Sumo-lings will have lifetime agency plan and its future updates.
Thank you
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