Announcing VuGA Rails Plugin for viewing Google Analytics Statistics

I wanted to give you my readers a peak at what i’m working on at the moment. I’ve start created by first Ruby on Rails plugin “VuGA” which stands for View Google Analytics. The premise of the plugin is that it provides pages on your own site for viewing statistics collected by Google Analytics.

Im sure there are some people asking why when you can just use Google Analytics to view your statistics. There are 2 main reasons i’m creating a plugin to view these statistics.

1. This is the main reason, i’d like to be able to view my statistics from my iPhone, or at least the common everyday stats, visitors, page views, which pages are being viewed, where they are coming from. However Googles own dashboard uses Flash to display the information meaning its broken. Also its not really optimised for mobile browsing.

2. The second reason for creating this is to use as a feature for my companies clients. Many customers want statistics for there website but Google Analytics can be overwhelming. Most people dont need to know everything Analytics tells you.

I hope to have the first version out in the next couple of weeks. Please let me know your thoughts on what features should be included, what statistics it should display, using the contact form below. I’d be interested to know what statistics other people view on a regular basis.