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Omniture Discover 2 - The First Feature Request

After giving the team the requisite long-weekend after a big product launch, it's time to start requesting additional features in Omniture D2 :-)

SiteAnalysis_Idea1_sm.jpgPlaying with the Site Analysis view for a little while and it's hard not to get addicted.

The 3D view is such a clear way to display and understand relationships between pages and underlying metrics. While the default X-Y metrics are page-depth and orders, another pairing I have found interesting is Page Views and Revenue (participation).

Using these, highly visited pages position themselves near the top of the chart, and high revenue pages to the right. So pages clumped at the upper-left are popular but non-producing, while pages at the lower-right are profitable but could use more traffic. There's lots to think about as you scan where your pages fall.

Which brings me to feature request #1. I'd like a 'smart' way of adding pages to the Site Analysis view. It would be great to be able to automatically add the top 5 or bottom 5 (ok, make it a user configurable number) pages from any defined Page Group based on how they would position themselves along the current X or Y axis. So in my example above, I'd like to be able to add the top 5 (or bottom 5) pages from the 'Categories' group that deliver the most (or least) revenue based on participation. Or the top/bottom 5 based on page views and see where they fall in terms of revenue.

Right now on a site with tons of pages, scrolling through the picker and trying out each one - while cool - can become slow and tiring. What I'm looking for (initially) is the winners and losers. As someone said at the NYC launch last week: "Let software do what software does best". Surely the software can find the winners and losers better than I can.

Bonus implementation idea: Let me draw a square region on the page and fill in all the pages that would land in that region.