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Google Analytics

Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10
Category
Google Analytics
8.9 /10

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a platform that collects data from your websites and apps to create reports that provide insights into your business. It is the go-to platform for millions of website and app owners seeking to gain a deeper understanding of their website and app performance. With Google Analytics, you can fine-tune your digital strategy, optimize your campaigns, and take your online presence to new heights, and get a complete understanding of your customers across devices and platforms. Google Analytics gives you the tools, free of charge, to understand the customer journey and improve marketing ROI.

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Awards & Recognition

Google Analytics won the following awards in the Website Analytics category

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Google Analytics Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Google Analytics?

1% Negative
5% Neutral
94% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Conversion Analysis

86

Audience Segmentation

86

Audience Demographics

85

Paid Search Integration

85

Device and Browser Analytics

85

Search Engine Optimization

85

Customer Value Analysis

84

Data Visualization

84

Machine Learning

83

AI Tools

83

Social Media Analytics

83

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

87

Breadth of Features

85

Quality of Features

85

Ease of Implementation

84

Ease of Data Integration

84

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Ease of Customization

82

Availability and Quality of Training

82

Ease of IT Administration

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Vendor Support

77

Google Analytics Reviews

Blanchard S.

  • Role: C-Level
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2025

Google analytics helps me understand my website

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Google Analytics from other similar products?

Google analytics has the ML inteligence that is easy to use and does helps me understand the analytics in the dashboard and solution has more features

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of customisation of the tool where you can easily customise the reports in the Google analytics dashboard and integrates with any website with just the GA-tags

What do you dislike most about this product?

Does not filter traffic of bots and this gives invalid traffic data when it does not filter traffic data

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend the solution

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Moon B.

  • Role: Human Resources
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2025

TMS Software

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Google Analytics from other similar products?

Google Analytics stands out from other analytics tools primarily because of its seamless integration with the broader Google ecosystem, making it highly effective for end to end digital marketing analysis. It offers robust data collection, real time reporting, advanced segmentation, and customizable dashboards while remaining free for most users.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Google Analytics is its ability to provide deep insights through integration with other Google tools like Ads and Search Console. This allows me to track the complete customer journey from acquisition to conversion in one place. The customizable dashboards and real-time reporting also make it easy to focus on the metrics that matter most.

What do you dislike most about this product?

What I find most challenging about Google Analytics is its steep learning curve for new users. While it’s a powerful tool, the interface and wide range of features can feel overwhelming without proper training. Additionally, with GA4, some users miss the simplicity and reporting flexibility that Universal Analytics offered.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I’d recommend first defining clear business goals and key metrics before diving into Google Analytics, as that helps in setting up the right events, conversions, and dashboards. New users should also take advantage of Google’s free training resources, since the platform can feel complex at first. Finally, I’d suggest integrating it with other Google tools like Ads and Search Console to unlock its full potential and get a complete picture of user behavior.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Unique Features
  • Respectful

Charity N.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2025

Improve your product with this tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Google Analytics from other similar products?

With Google Analytics, you can easily improve your product, websites and applications using real-time analytics performance of your product with real-time heat maps that makes the solution a scalable solution for every business to use to measure analytics and understand areas of improvements

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The easy installation step of the tool which does not require hiring experts saves both time and money deploying the solution, it does not take more hours to start collecting feedback like other tools making it effective and necessary for website performances

What do you dislike most about this product?

When users do use VPN or bots, it becomes so hard to differentiate between human traffic and bot traffic however, the solution is an ideal one for me

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend the solution

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

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