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Add to SafariWhen comparing Geckoboard vs Google Analytics, the Slant community recommends Geckoboard for most people. In the question“What are the best analytics dashboard tools?” Geckoboard is ranked 1st while Google Analytics is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Geckoboard is:
Extremely easy of use. Just download and get your reports.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Plug-and-play application
Extremely easy of use. Just download and get your reports.
Pro Summarizes important information from multiple services
Geckoboard is a hosted status board that collects business information from many online services and customers own data sources, summarises it to distill the key messages and displays it in a way that's easy to understand and interpret.
Pro Real-time updates
Businesses use Geckoboard to pull important information locked up in disparate services together into one place to give a real-time status on the health of all aspects of your business.
Pro Developer API
Pro Mobile apps
Pro Well documented
Pro Free for most use cases
Google Analytics is free unless you need their premium service, which is $150,000 per year. However, it's only necessary for massively large enterprise size data sets.
Pro Intelligent Alerts
You can configure to be notified if certain things happen.
Pro Highly customizable
Pro Allows custom dashboards
Depending on the most important information to the user, the dashboard can be customized in order to put emphasis on certain metrics. This feature allows Google Analytics to satisfy users from a broad range of industries.
Pro Provides free training
Google provides free services that train users in each aspect of Google Analytics, especially when used in conjunction with AdWords.
Pro Awesome API
The API itself, tools, documentation, and abilities of the API are very powerful.
Pro Import data
Google Analytics allows users to update user information from other sources.
Pro Google Play analytics
Because it's a Google product, Google Analytics can tell you how users discovered your app through Google Play.
Pro Constantly releasing new features
Released more than once a week in 2014.
Pro Mobile web and Mobile app tracking possible
Pro Integrates with AdMob
Since Google owns AdMob, they can provide deep integration, and allow you to respond to data with marketing campaigns.
Cons
Con Sometimes needs to be refreshed
Dashboards are losing connection or not reflecting correctly. The quick refreshment fixes this.
Con Super expensive
Compared to what you can get from competitors such as Google Analytics, Geckoboard is insanely expensive
Con Heavy users get sampled reporting
If you send a lot of data Google starts sampling the data it uses for your reports.
Con User-based analytics is lacking
Google Analytics tracks visitor actions, their user action tracking is still very basic. It has started supporting user ID, but in a very basic way.
Con Can't handle authenticated users
