Google Analytics needs a Gmail account
Several months ago a colleague added Google Analytics code to a website and set me up as a user. A warning came from him though: “You’ll need a Gmail account to view reports. It’s a new thing and it says so on the ‘Add Users’ page.”
So signing up to Gmail and linking my existing Yahoo account to it, on which my other Analytics accounts are hooked, I wasn’t expecting to…
1. see none of the new reports
2. receive no useful help from the Help tool
3. find nothing in forums and blogspace
After months of trying to work it out, I have found out today that if you signed up to Google Analytics before the change-over, then you still need to use your previous account details.
This kind of reverse logic is a real-life barrier to development on the web.
Google – sort it out!
