Missing dashboard and incorrect data

1. It loads considerably faster
2. It makes up to 3 times less requests to Google Servers
3. All charts are loaded without blocking the dashboard screen. The Admin screen loads normally and the charts are displayed when they are ready.
4. The widget is smaller, fully responsive and faster (a huge benefit for mobile devices).

In my opinion these are huge UX improvements.

I thought goal of this plugin is to bring GA dashboard to WP admin based on name of it and that’s what I was expecting from it. I was able to see within few seconds all necessary data and could visually compare all segments.
Now it takes so much time to go through all options that it is faster to go to GA, so this plugin is becoming useless and should not be called dashboard.

I don’t really care that it has too many calls or it takes few more seconds to load, but I need quick overview which takes me now lot more time and clicks.

Sadly I will have to agree with oskard on this one.

It takes more clicks that I would feel comfortable with to get all the information I will want to see. In addition to that, in the referrer’s section, it doesn’t seem to be possible to see the actual URL anymore, just the domain.

For me both of these issues are a show stopper as these are some basic features I was looking for from the start.

A solution to this, although I am not sure if that would be possible, is to allow for multiple “Widgets” on the dashboard. This means you can keep exactly the same functionality (dropdown menu) but also allow the users to spawn more than one “widget” of information (of different type) as well as giving them the ability to re-arrange them how they would like.

I suppose you’ve both read the announcement and the comments here:

https://deconf.com/new-features-google-analytics-dashboard-4-4-wordpress/

That being said, let’s talk about the referrers:

Active links on referrers + spam referrers equals questions, rumor, concerns, false positives and even users thinking that’s a plugin issue.

I don’t see much info on your page that answers the issues I raised though, and this is the second time I went over the changes. Could you please point me to the information you think they answer the issues I raised ?

As for the links on the referrers, personally I would prefer the previous functionality rather than seeing duplicate values for the same referrer with different session count. You could have added that as an option instead of removing it completely.

Currently I am being forced to log into Google Analytics to get the information I want since you do not provide them any more. Referrers being one of them. Something which sadly makes this plugin obsolete (for me).

Now I understand that you have your own vision for the plugin and I am not trying to force anything here. I am just stating my thoughts and, hopefully, providing some constructive criticism. What route you will choose to take, that is up to you.