I’ve heard quite a few people say good things about the new Google Analytics interface, but I think I’m sad to see the old one go. After having tested the cool new UI a couple of times I went back to the old one and now I’m just waiting for July 18th, after which the old thing won’t be accessible anymore.

It’s not that I don’t think that the new interface can be better, and it certainly looks cooler than the rather bulky old UI, but I had just got so used to accessing the stats through the old interface and now in the new thing it feels like Google has moved a bit too many things around. The geo map overlay with the dots marking the cities/locations is one of my favorite things in the old design, and in the new version they’ve changed it to show numbers for continents, not individual cities, as default. I have to click through several views to get the details for cities.

I would think I’m not the only one who’s going to be lost for a little while after the old UI is gone. Good usability and design are, of course, important, but sometimes it seems like getting used to something matters even more than improvements in design.

Karri Ojanen