Google Analytics Bookmarklet to Automatically Load the Current Day’s Stats

While obsessively checking Google Analytics each day, I always check to see how today’s stats are doing: by opening up the calendar selector, clicking on the tiny date that matches today and then hitting apply.

This sounds like a simple process but when done multiple times a day for more than one site, the calendar selector is not a very intuitive interface for this task.

So I created a bookmarklet that takes the 3 clicks and automates it to 1 using a javascript bookmarklet.

Drag this to your bookmark toolbar:

How do I use the bookmarklet?

1. Load up any google analytics page
2. Click the “Today’s Analytics” bookmark in the bookmark bar
3. The page will reload with the current date selected

The javascript source code can be found here. I can be easily extended to do any time range (7 days, 2 months etc).