How to Make Powerful Custom Google Analytics Dashboards

Google Analytics is a powerful platform for tracking your website analytics data. However, Google Analytics can be complex to manage. It spreads data out either across multiple tabs or pages or across multiple accounts. Therefore, creating a dashboard to bring all of the disparate pieces of your Goggle Analytics data together into a cohesive dashboard is a productivity-enhancing solution. Does creating integrated business dashboards that you can use to track all the primary performance-related stats for your website at a glance sound like a good idea? If you think the answer is yes, then give our Google Analytics Dashboard a shot! The dashboard puts the stats that matter right at your fingertips, from visitor demographics to traffic count for a particular duration. The Google Analytics Dashboard uses jQuery and Bootstrap. Best of all, they are the most widely used frameworks, making it easy to work with the source code. You can also check out the live dashboard example in action.

What Are Some Key Features of a Google Analytics Dashboard?

• Keep track of visitor count within particular intervals of time.
• Stay informed about visitor demographics (visitor type, gender, age group, traffic source, and location).
• Find out the success rate of search engine optimization by tracking major factors influenced by SEO (page views, average session duration, and bounce rate).
• Discover major traffic sources (Organic search, direct traffic, referral, etc.) at a glance.

Head over and download the complete source code for this Google Analytics + jQuery + Bootstrap + FusionCharts solution.

How Easy Is It to Integrate Charts into jQuery and Bootstrap?

Using FusionCharts’ jQuery Plugin (compatible with both Bootstrap or jQuery UI) you can create charts that are responsive, interactive. You can also support zooming, panning, APIs, animation, drill-downs, real-time updates, and even full exporting of charts and dashboards. FusionChart’s jQuery support also comes with event support for mouse, keyboard, and more. This allows you to add charts in runtime during any lifecycle phase of the application. In addition, All charts and dashboards you make using FusionCharts’ jQuery Plugin are mobile-first by default. They are also responsive across all user devices. Further, we build and test all charts and graphs for millions of data points without any performance issues. Finally, the jQuery Plugin is entirely open-source and actively maintained by a team of dedicated developers.

Is There Sample Code for Creating Charts in jQuery?

Here is some sample Javascript code for integrating FusionCharts with jQuery.

/**
 * Assuming you have installed fusioncharts using npm
 * Following code snippet can be used
*/
var FusionCharts = require('fusioncharts');
var Charts = require('fusioncharts/fusioncharts.charts');
var FusionTheme = require('fusioncharts/themes/fusioncharts.theme.fusion');
var $ = require('jquery');
var jQueryFusionCharts = require('jquery-fusioncharts');

Charts(FusionCharts); // Resolve Charts as dependency for FusionCharts.
FusionTheme(FusionCharts);  // Resolve Fusion theme as dependency for FusionCharts
jQueryFusionCharts(FusionCharts); // Resolve FusionCharts as dependency for jqueryFusionCharts

$('document').ready(function () {
  $('#chart-container').insertFusionCharts({
    type: 'column2d',
    width: '600',
    height: '400',
    dataFormat: 'json',
    dataSource:  { /* see data tab */ }    
  });
});

/* 
NOTE: 
  * In case you downloaded fusioncharts in zipped format
  * var FusionCharts = require('/path/to/fusioncharts/fusioncharts.js');
  * var Charts = require('/path/to/fusioncharts/fusioncharts.charts.js');
  * var FusionTheme = require('/path/to/fusioncharts/fusioncharts.theme.fusion.js');
*/

And here is the HTML piece you need:

<div id="chart-container">
    FusionCharts will render here
</div>

Check out more sample code for integrating charting into your jQuery apps.

Why Should You Choose FusionCharts Products?

Over 800,000 developers from 28,000+ companies prefer FusionCharts products over Open source or other paid libraries. Here are five reasons you should choose to use FusionCharts with jQuery:

• Fifteen minutes to first chart, without any learning curve. Plus, consistent API across different charts makes it simple to build complex charts or dashboards.
• Consistent look and feel. Our themes have a consistent look across products. Did we tell you that you can also create your theme?
• Various installation options are available (direct JavaScript, CDN, NPM) and pre-integrated with all popular JavaScript libraries and back-end programming languages
• Comprehensive documentation for each library or programming language, with a lot of live examples.
• Ready-to-use chart examples, industry-specific dashboards, and even data stories, available with source code to quickly get started.

Ready to Get Started Building Powerful Analytics Dashboards?

Deriving meaning from all the data being collected by your analytics platform is paramount to success. If the information you collect isn’t actionable, it is useless. Simply put, using FusionCharts to quickly build dashboards that show you the data you need to see when you want to see it can really put you one step ahead of the competition. Head over to FusionCharts to learn more about how you can build beautiful web and mobile dashboards.