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Google Analytics vs Segment: What are the differences?
What is Google Analytics? Enterprise-class web analytics. Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.
What is Segment? A single hub to collect, translate and send your data with the flip of a switch. Segment is a single hub for customer data. Collect your data in one place, then send it to more than 100 third-party tools, internal systems, or Amazon Redshift with the flip of a switch.
Google Analytics can be classified as a tool in the "General Analytics" category, while Segment is grouped under "Analytics Integrator".
Some of the features offered by Google Analytics are:
- Analysis Tools- Google Analytics is built on a powerful, easy to use, reporting platform, so you can decide what data you want to view and customize your reports, with just a few clicks.
- Content Analytics- Content reports help you understand which parts of your website are performing well, which pages are most popular so you can create a better experience for your customers.
- Social Analytics- The web is a social place and Google Analytics measures success of your social media programs. You can analyze how visitors interact with sharing features on your site (like the Google +1 button) and engage with your content across social platforms.
On the other hand, Segment provides the following key features:
- A single API to integrate third-party tools
- Data replay that backfills new tools with historical data
- SQL support to automatically transform and load behavioral data into Amazon Redshift
"Free" is the top reason why over 1476 developers like Google Analytics, while over 85 developers mention "Easy to scale and maintain 3rd party services" as the leading cause for choosing Segment.
According to the StackShare community, Google Analytics has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15339 company stacks & 2445 developers stacks; compared to Segment, which is listed in 831 company stacks and 79 developer stacks.
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Adopting Amplitude was one of the best decisions we've made. We didn't try any of the alternatives- the free tier was really generous so it was easy to justify trying it out (via Segment). We've had Google Analytics since inception, but just for logged out traffic. We knew we'd need some sort of #FunnelAnalysisAnalytics solution, so it came down to just a few solutions.
We had heard good things about Amplitude from friends and even had a consultant/advisor who was an Amplitude pro from using it as his company, so he kinda convinced us to splurge on the Enterprise tier for the behavioral cohorts alone. Writing the queries they provide via a few clicks in their UI would take days/weeks to craft in SQL. The behavioral cohorts allow us to create a lot of useful retention charts.
Another really useful feature is kinda minor but kinda not. When you change a saved chart, a new URL gets generated and is visible in your browser (chartURL/edit) and that URL is immediately available to share with your team. It may sound inconsequential, but in practice, it makes it really easy to share and iterate on graphs. Only complaint is that you have to explicitly tag other team members as owners of whatever chart you're creating for them to be able to edit it and save it. I can see why this is the case, but more often than not, the people I'm sharing the chart with are the ones I want to edit it 🤷🏾♂️
The Engagement Matrix feature is also really helpful (once you filter out the noisy events). Charts and dashboards are also great and make it easy for us to focus on the important metrics. We've been using Amplitude in production for about 6 months now. There's a bunch of other features we don't use regularly like Pathfinder, etc that I personally don't fully understand yet but I'm sure we'll start using them eventually.
Again, haven't tried any of the alternatives like Heap, Mixpanel, or Kissmetrics so can't speak to those, but Amplitude works great for us.
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Automation ConsultantsWe currently use Google Analytics in our stack to monitor page views across our Marketplace listings, Documentation site and primary website. We're currently also investigating using Segment to provide in-app analytics in our Cloud App offerings. We expect to use Segment to guide our App development efforts, by monitoring, anonymously which features our clients use the most - but this is in early stages and will involve an update to our privacy policy.
Google AnalyticsGoogle is an amazing free tool and is extremely customizable. I use it for A/B testing (using google content experiment), Lean Analytics (measuring goals based on events), and it's new asynchronous JS has made a lot of tracking easier.
However it takes a lot more configuration to set up cohort studies and user based analytics than other analytics platforms. It is possible to do however: http://analytics.blogspot.ca/2013/03/get-useful-insights-easier-automate.html
If you need something free this is definitely your best option.
SegmentI’ve known Peter at Segment for about a year now. I think I first got wind of Segment through their Analytics Academy. Segment seemed like it could be really useful for folks that have a lot of analytics solutions. For us, it was more of a future-proof sort of thing. Where I knew we’d need more analytics (by more, I mean something other than Google Analytics) eventually so this seemed like an easy way to add new ones later on. It’s definitely been useful so far and I’m looking forward to using it more as we add more analytics solutions.
Google AnalyticsI mainly use it to trace how many user using it before my site get monetized, at the age before smartphone and we only have web site, now I look at the profit rather than web page visited. As web page is not the single interface now. Android, iOS, Web. Wasting time to set up one by one. so I just simply look at revenue.
Google AnalyticsGoogle Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google Analytics not only lets you measure sales and conversions, but also gives you fresh insights into how visitors use your site, how they arrived on your site, and how you can keep them coming back.
Google AnalyticsGoogle Analytic is setup with user id tracking, allowing to view traffic for logged in users only, as well as custom events based on video watching and conversion goals for purchases. The Google’s autotrack plugin provides additional tracking of click events.
Google AnalyticsWe installed Google Analytics. Can we haz data science now? We ares teh bestest analytics gurus evar!
Nothing easier than one line of JavaScript to let Google know anything and everything about your website in exchange for some pretty dashboards and reports.
Google AnalyticsWe use Google Analytics to see in which countries we're having most success, and in which demographics. We offer users the possibility to opt out of Google Analytics by setting the Do Not Track feature in their browser, because we want to respect user privacy.
SegmentInstead of going back and forth integrating 3rd party scripts, Segment let me set up tracking once then I could switch all other tools on from their control panel. Made it easier to get Mixpanel, Intercom, Olark etc. up and running without touching code.
SegmentIntegration of various user data sources and destinations for marketing automation, communications, and analytics.
SegmentLogging analytics for payment attempts, successes, failures, total revenue, enrollments, project submissions, etc.
SegmentFor Adding event tagging and not having to add all the apis I am testing just channel them