Did you know that there's a quick way to create advanced segments from automatic alerts? This is one of those "I can't believe how powerful this is and yet so easy to do" features. Let me illustrate with an example from the Google Store site. A few months ago, on February 5, the Google Store received a surge of traffic from TechCrunch.com. We would not have noticed this extra traffic were it not for Analytics Intelligence . In the following screenshot,

We're happy to announce that the asynchronous tracking tag , which came out of beta last week, is now available in your admin interface when you set up a new profile. This makes it easy for everyone to start off tracking new sites with this very fast, state-of-the-art tag. Whether you're tracking a single domain, or a more complex site with multiple subdomains or top level domains, there's an option in the interface to give you exactly the code you need.