Last Updated: May 26, 2022

In this article, I have shared the web analytics tools that I use and recommend.

Google Analytics debugging tools

Google Tag Manager Debug Console – use this tool to make sure that your tags, triggers, variables and data layers work as expected.

Google Tag Assistant is a chrome extension to verify the installation of various Google tags on a web page.

Google Tag Assistant Recording is used to identify, validate and troubleshoot the installation of various Google Tags across many pages.

Google Analytics Troubleshooter Tools can help you in fixing an issue around certain analytics topic

Google Analytics Diagnostic Notification Tool makes regular evaluation of your Google Analytics tracking code, account configuration and data in order to find implementation issues and configuration anomalies.

Fiddler log each and every hit that you send to Google Analytics server and by using its inbuilt filters you can filter out these hits and analyze them.

Google Analytics Tag Auditing Tools are used to identify various tags (tag is a piece of JavaScript code) on a website

Google Analytics Measurement Protocol Hit Builder is the best and easiest tool to create and test payload data.

Postman allows you to send payload data via GET method. It also allows you to send multiple hits in a single protocol request.

For the complete list of Google Analytics debugging tools, check out this article: Beginners guide to Google Analytics Debugging

Google Tag Manager tools

Code Editor for GTM – Chrome extension for getting full code editor within the GTM interface.

Data Slayer – Chrome extension for debugging GTM.

GTM Sonar – Chrome extension to debug page template to check whether it works with GTM auto event listeners.

Google Tag Manager Help Center – information on setting up and using Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager for Web Tracking – developers guide on setting up Google Tag Manager

Tag Manager Injector – Chrome extension for injecting GTM container tags into a webpage. comes handy for testing.

Free AJAX Event Listener for Google Tag Manager

Google Analytics setup tools

Analytics.js Field Reference – list of all the configurable field names.

GA Campaign URL – Google sheet add-on which simplifies tagging URLs

GAConfig – event tracking code generator, URL builder.

GA.js Field Reference – list of all the configurable field names.

GA Funnel Builder – it is a Paditrack alternative. It helps you create funnels on the fly.

GA Funnel Builder 2 – another version of funnel builder in which step 1 is mandatory.

GA Funnel Builder 3

Google Analytics Help Center – information on setting up and using Google Analytics

Google Analytics Mobile App Tracking – documentation on mobile app tracking for IOS and Android devices.

Google Analytics Release notes

Google Analytics Web Tracking (ga.js) – Google’s documentation on ga.js library.

Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce Demo – tool to understand how enhanced ecommerce code works and how it can be implemented.

Google Analytics Implementation Guides and Solutions  – implementation guides and solutions for reporting automation, data import, mobile developers, ecommerce platforms etc.

Google Analytics Solutions Gallery – tool to import dashboards, custom reports and advanced segments into Google Analytics.

Google URL Builder – tool to tag URLs with campaign tracking parameters.

Method Reference – Web Tracking (analytics.js) – universal analytics objects reference guide.

Universal Analytics Web Tracking (analytics.js) – Google’s documentation on analytics.js library.

What is my IP address – tool to find your IP address for creating IP based filters in Google Analytics.

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Tools for website technical audit

BuildWith – tool to determine server, CMS, Frameworks, tracking etc used by a website.

Default Channel Grouping channel definitions – provides a current definition of various default channels used by Google Analytics.

Down For Everyone or Just Me – tool to find whether a website is down for everyone or just for you.

Five Second Test – show a visitor your site for 5 seconds and see what they remember. This tool is free to use if you test other people’s pages.

GA Checker – tool which crawls a website (up to 10k pages) to find whether or not the web pages contain Google/Universal Analytics tracking code, GA remarketing code, Adwords remarketing code and Google Tag Manager code.

List of HTTP Status Codes

Page Speed insights – It is a browser-independent tool used to measure the speed performance of web pages.

Robots.txt Validator –  tool to validate robots.txt file of a website.

Screen Fly – tool to test your website on desktop, tablet, mobile and TV.

Spy on Web – this tool allows you to find websites that are using your Google Analytics tracking code.

Test MY Site by think with Google – tool to test, how mobile-friendly your website is.

Data extraction tools

Google Big Query – Google’s documentation on Big Query.

Excel for analytics cheatsheet – most important tricks and tips to speed up data extraction.

Excel functions list – exhaustive list and description of all excel functions.

Regex101 – tool to create and validate regular expressions.

Regular expression guide for analytics

Scraper – chrome extension which scrapes data from web pages and exports it to Google docs.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider – tool for on-page analysis, finding server issues, tag auditing and finding web pages with zero traffic.

Google Analytics learning resources

Google Analytics Training Resources and Tutorials

Google Analytics Academy – free online courses on Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and web analytics in general.

Google Analytics Academy Community – Google + community to engage with analytics experts, googlers and course students.

Google Analytics Blog – official Google Analytics blog.

Google Analytics community on Google Plus

Google Analytics IQ study guide – list various articles on Google Analytics.

Google Analytics YouTube  – official Google Analytics YouTube channel.

Google Analytics Forum – forum to ask questions about GA and to see the issues webmasters are facing.

Mozilla Developers Network – JavaScript – good resource on learning JavaScript.

Google Analytics API

Analytics Canvas – paid tool for report automation, accessing GA API, data integration, query partitioning, etc.

Configuration and Reporting APIs limits and quotas – describes limits and quotas for various GA APIs.

Google Analytics Account Explorer – tool through which you can identify IDs (account IDs, web property IDs, view IDs and table IDs) that are required in order to access GA via APIs.

Google Analytics Configuration APIs – create accounts, manage users and account data with APIs.

Google Analytics Dimensions and Metric Explorer – list and describe all the dimensions and metrics (API names, UI names) available in GA. It also tells you which dimensions and metrics can be queried together.

Google Analytics Query Explorer – tool to build and execute queries.

Google Analytics Reporting APIs  – APIs to retrieve report data from Google Analytics.

Google Analytics Spreadsheet Add-on – chrome extension to access GA directly via core reporting API into a Google Spreadsheet.

Tools for enhancing Google Analytics reports

Table Booster for Google Analytics – chrome extension that visualize your tables with bar-charts, comparisons and heat-maps.

Page Analytics (by Google) – Chrome extension for GA in-page analytics.

PanguinTool – tool to see how Google’s algorithm updates have impacted your website traffic.

Statistical Test for Google Analytics – Chrome extension which run statistical significance test within Google Analytics.

Attribution modelling tools

Customer journey to online purchase – Multi-channel funnel tool to improve marketing.

Consumer barometer with Google – tool to understand internet usage.

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Google Analytics Premium / GA 360

Google Analytics Premium Community (by invitation only) – Official Google Analytics premium community page on Google

Google Analytics Premium Help Center – information on setting up and using Google Analytics Premium.

Social media analytics tools

Facebook Insights – tool for Facebook fan page analysis

Fan Page Karma – paid tool for doing really in-depth analysis of your Facebook Fan page.

Followerwonk – analyse and track twitter followers

Google Alerts– track brand mentions.

Google Trends – tool to find what is trending on Google.

Klout–  measures online influence of a person on a scale of 1 to 100.

Pinterest Analytics – tool to measure how users interact with your pins.

Peep mail – tool to find business email addresses

Rapportive – Gmail plugin to find social media profiles of contacts right inside your inbox. Can also be used to verify email addresses.

Sharedcount– track social shares of any web page whether or not the page has sharing buttons installed.

Snap Bird – search the tweet history of any Twitter profile.

Twitter Analytics – tool to measure tweet activity, followers and Twitter cards performance.

YouTube Analytics  – tool to track the performance of your YouTube videos, channel & watch pages.

Competitors traffic analysis tools

Alexa

Compete

Google display planner – tool to research a specific placement.

Quantcast

SEMRush

Web analytics training platform

Web Analytics Training Course from OptimizeSmart

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