Check Google Analytics Reports From Desktop

Any experienced blogger or website owner knows how facilitating Google Analytics is. The free web tool brings enterprise-class web analytics solutions to ordinary site owners and helps them analyze their site traffic.

There is however on glitch: you can only monitor one site per Analytics account. Say you’ve six sites, you’ll first need to create six separate Google accounts and each time you will need to sign out and in Analytics to check the traffic stats of one of your websites.

A much more convenient alternative is Polaris.

Polaris is a relatively minuscule Adobe Air based application which can make reading your Analytics data very simple.

Just a 1.4 MB download, you can quickly install it and run it regardless of what your operating system is; since it is Air based, it is multiplatform.

On its first run, you provide Polaris your Analytics accounts information. After the first run, whenever you open Polaris, it will automatically sign you in. Your traffic data is displayed in a small but comprehensive window:

Clicking on the ‘Dashboard’ will give you more options to choose from:

For users with singular Analytics account, Polaris is absolutely free. However if you want to manage multiple Analytics with Polaris, you need to purchase the full version for $ 15 per year.

A great way to monitor your Analytics account without ever opening your browser, Polaris can save any blogger’s or site owner’s valuable time.