Google Analytics
Google Analytics email integration
Ask for last week's numbers in an email and ForwardThis brings the Google Analytics answer back to your inbox, so the traffic report reaches you without a dashboard.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Google Analytics
Create a free account and connect Google Analytics. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies with the answer in your inbox, pulled straight from Google Analytics. Nothing there gets edited.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: How did the site do last week?
Get last week's users and sessions for brightco.com, and the top pages while you're at it.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Before Thursday's meeting, can someone pull the numbers for last week? Mainly whether the new pricing page is getting any traffic.
Last week for brightco.com
4,182 users · 5,730 sessions · 11,904 pageviews
Top pages
/pricing · /blog/delivery-costs · /contact
The answer comes straight back in your inbox, and nothing gets edited.
Some other examples
- “What were our top pages last month?”
- “Where did the traffic come from in the last 30 days?”
- “Which Google Analytics properties can you see?”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Google Analytics
Read a report
Read site traffic
Find pages
List properties
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Google Analytics?
- Google Analytics is only ever looked up here: users, sessions and pageviews for a date range, the last 7 days unless your email says otherwise, the top pages, and where the traffic came from, for the property from your instructions, and nothing in your Analytics is ever changed. Forward the email that asked the question to your ForwardThis address and add a simple instruction, like "get last week's users and sessions for brightco.com". The figures come back to you as a reply. The first time, you'll need a free account with Google Analytics connected, which takes about 30 seconds, and that's the whole Google Analytics email integration.
- Can it change anything in my Analytics?
- No. It only looks things up. It cannot edit a property, alter a report, add a user or touch your data in any way, which is also why there is nothing here to undo and nothing to approve.
- What can it actually tell me?
- Users, sessions and pageviews for a date range, covering the last 7 days unless your email asks for something else. Ask for top pages and you get the pages people looked at; ask where the traffic came from and you get the sources. Google Analytics works out every figure.
- What if I have more than one property?
- Name the one you mean in your instruction, like "for brightco.com". If it isn't clear which property you meant, it asks rather than guessing, and you can also ask it to list the properties your connected account can see.
- Is this better than Google's own scheduled reports?
- For the same numbers every Monday, no: set up a scheduled email in Google Analytics and it will do that perfectly well, for free. This is for the other kind, the question that turns up in your inbox from a colleague or a client and wants an answer in the next ten minutes, without you opening a dashboard and building the report by hand.