Why Google Analytics is hard to get answers from
Most companies have years of website data sitting in Google Analytics, and most people on the team avoid opening it. That's not because the questions are hard. "Which pages brought the most signups last month?" is a simple question. Getting the answer out of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is the hard part.
GA4 answers questions through reports built from dimensions and metrics. A dimension is what you group by, such as page, country, or traffic source. A metric is what you count, such as sessions, users, or key events. To answer the signups question, you need to know that signups are recorded as a key event (if they're recorded at all), that the page you want is the landing page rather than the page where the signup happened, and that "last month" should be compared with the month before to mean anything. Then you need to find the report or build an exploration that combines those pieces.
Even the people who know GA4 well spend a lot of time on definitions. Ask "Which traffic sources drove the most conversions?" and there are at least two honest answers. One credits the source of the visit where the conversion happened. The other credits the source that first brought that person to your site. Both are correct, and they often disagree.
That combination of plain questions and fiddly translation is a good fit for an AI agent. The agent can learn how your property is set up, turn each question into the right report, and explain the answer in the same plain language you asked it in. Kite is an AI marketer. It researches your business, builds a growth strategy, and ships the work that brings you new customers. Answering questions about your Google Analytics data is one of the everyday jobs it handles.
How Kite answers questions about your Google Analytics data
Kite starts by learning how your Google Analytics property is set up. It lists the properties your Google account can see, reads which events you've marked as key events, and notes any custom dimensions and channel groups your team created. That way it knows which questions your data can answer before you ask one.
When you ask a question, Kite turns it into a report, runs it against your property, and answers with the numbers, a comparison with the previous period, and a sentence on what they mean. It tells you which definition it used, so you can ask for the other one if you meant something different. From there, you can keep asking follow-up questions in the same conversation, and Kite can take the answer further: into a funnel, into your revenue data, or into a change on the page that's underperforming.
- Ask the question the way you'd ask a colleague
- Check what your property actually tracks
- Find your top landing pages and best traffic sources without building a report
- Find where visitors drop out
- Connect your Google Analytics numbers to revenue
- Get the answers you need every week without asking
- Act on what the numbers say
Ask the question the way you'd ask a colleague
You can ask Kite about your Google Analytics data in plain English, with no report names or menu paths. You type the question in a conversation with Kite, and it answers there. Questions like these work as written:
- "Which pages brought the most signups last month?"
- "Where did our traffic come from this week, and how does that compare with last week?"
- "Did the pricing page get more visits after we changed it on the 3rd?"
- "How many people are on the site right now, and what are they looking at?"
- "Which blog posts lead to demo requests?"
Kite reads the question for the four things every GA4 report needs: what you want to count, what you want to group it by, the date range, and any filter. When a question leaves one of those open, Kite picks a sensible default and says so. For example, "this week" becomes the last seven complete days, compared with the seven days before.
When an answer is easier to read as a chart or table, Kite includes one in its reply. In the Kite web app, those charts pull current numbers again when you open the conversation later.
Check what your property actually tracks
Before Kite answers a question about conversions, it checks which key events your property records. This matters because GA4 only knows what someone told it to track. If your signup form was never set up as a key event, there's no signup number to report, and any answer that pretends otherwise is a guess.
When the event exists, Kite uses it and names it in the answer, such as "signups, counted by your sign-up key event." When the event you're asking about is missing, Kite tells you that plainly and suggests the closest thing your property does track, such as visits to the thank-you page that follows the form. It also tells you what would need to be added to measure the real thing.
Kite does the same with your other settings. If your team built a custom channel group that separates partner traffic from other referrals, Kite uses it. If you track something specific to your business as a custom dimension, such as plan type, Kite can group by it.
Find your top landing pages and best traffic sources without building a report
Kite answers the questions people usually build GA4 reports for, such as which landing pages perform best and which traffic sources bring in conversions. It runs the report through your Google Analytics connection, so you don't need to open an exploration or remember where a standard report lives.
For top landing pages, Kite groups sessions by the first page each visit started on and counts the sessions, engagement, and key events for each one. It sorts the list by whatever you care about most. A page with 4,000 visits and 12 signups and a page with 600 visits and 30 signups tell different stories, so Kite shows both the count and the rate.
For traffic sources, Kite tells you which attribution it used. By default, it credits the source of the session where the conversion happened, because that's what most people mean by "which source drove it." If you want to know which channels first bring people in, Kite runs the same question by first-user source and shows you where the two answers differ. A common pattern is organic search finding people first and email bringing them back to convert. Seeing both versions keeps you from cutting the channel that starts the relationship.
Find where visitors drop out
When an answer shows a problem, Kite can trace it to the step where people leave. Suppose the signups answer shows plenty of visits to your pricing page but few completed signups. Kite builds a funnel from your own events, for example pricing page, signup form started, and signup completed, and shows how many people reach each step and how many drop out between them.
Kite can split the funnel by device or traffic source, which often explains the drop. If mobile visitors start the form at the same rate as desktop visitors but finish at half the rate, the form itself is the likely problem, not the traffic.
Connect your Google Analytics numbers to revenue
Google Analytics can tell you which campaigns and pages bring in signups, but it usually can't tell you which of those signups became paying customers. Kite can answer that question by reading Google Analytics and Stripe together.
Kite takes the campaign and landing page behind each signup from Google Analytics and matches them to customer records in Stripe. The answer shows which campaigns and pages produce paying customers and revenue, not just form fills. A campaign that brings in many cheap signups can look like your best channel in Google Analytics and turn out to be your worst once you see who paid.
Get the answers you need every week without asking
A question you ask every Monday can become a report that arrives every Monday. Once Kite has answered a question you'll want again, it can put it on a schedule in your timezone. Each week, it runs the same reports, compares the results with the week before, and explains what changed and why it matters.
Kite can also keep a standing watch on your Google Analytics traffic. The watch reruns a saved report on a schedule and stays quiet until something changes enough to matter, such as visits dropping sharply after a site update. Then it tells you what moved.
Act on what the numbers say
An answer is most useful when something happens next, and Kite can do the work the answer points to. If a landing page brings in plenty of visits and few signups, Kite can rewrite the page or propose a test. If a traffic source converts well but sends little traffic, Kite can plan more content or campaigns for that channel.
Kite asks before it publishes a page or spends money. After the change goes live, it reads the same Google Analytics numbers again and compares the period before the change with the period after, so you can see whether the work helped.
What you get
Plain answers to your questions
Each answer includes the numbers, a comparison with the previous period, and a sentence on what they mean, with a chart or table when that's clearer.
A clear statement of the definitions used
Kite tells you which key event, date range, and attribution it used, so you know exactly what each number counts.
A map of what your property tracks
Kite tells you which key events and custom settings exist, and which questions your current setup can't answer yet.
Deeper answers when you need them
Funnels that show where visitors drop out, and campaign and landing page results matched to paying customers in Stripe.
Recurring reports and watches
The questions you ask every week arrive on a schedule, and Kite tells you when traffic changes enough to matter.
Proposed next steps
When an answer points to a problem, Kite proposes the fix and measures the result afterward.
How to get started
You can work with Kite in your browser or in Slack. Connect your Google Analytics account by signing in with Google, then ask Kite your first question in plain language, such as "Which pages brought the most signups last month?" or "Where is our traffic coming from?"
If your Google account can see more than one property, tell Kite which website you're asking about. Kite then checks which key events the property tracks and answers your question. Keep asking follow-up questions in the same conversation. When you find a question you'll want answered every week, ask Kite to put it on a schedule.
If Kite builds and hosts your website, you don't need Google Analytics for most of these questions. Kite's built-in analytics already track visitors, top pages, traffic sources, form submissions, and conversions on sites it hosts.
Integrations used to get answers from your Google Analytics data
Google Analytics supplies the website data Kite answers from. Stripe adds the revenue that Google Analytics usually can't see, and Slack is one place your scheduled reports can arrive.
Read your website data
Connect visits to revenue
Common questions
Doesn't Google Analytics have its own AI features?
Yes. Google keeps adding AI features inside Google Analytics, and they're worth trying for quick questions about a single property. Kite works differently because it knows your business as well as your data. It knows your goals, your products, and what your team has already tried, so it can tell you which numbers matter. It can also combine Google Analytics with other tools such as Stripe, and it can do the work an answer points to, like rewriting a page, then measure whether it helped.
Can I use ChatGPT or Claude to analyze my Google Analytics data?
You can export a report from Google Analytics as a spreadsheet and ask a general-purpose AI assistant to analyze it, and that works for a one-off question. The assistant only sees the rows you exported, though, so each new question means another export. Kite reads your property directly, so it can run whatever report a new question needs and check your key events and settings along the way.
What if the thing I want to measure isn't tracked in Google Analytics?
Kite tells you, suggests the closest measure your property already records, and explains what tracking would need to be added. If Kite builds or manages your website's code, it can add the tracking for you, and you approve the change before it goes live. From that point on, Google Analytics records the new event and Kite can answer questions about it.
How far back can Kite look in my Google Analytics data?
Kite can ask about any date range your GA4 property holds data for, which usually goes back to when the property was set up. Data from the older Universal Analytics version isn't available, because Google shut that version down and deleted its data in 2024. If you exported Universal Analytics reports before then, you can share them with Kite as files.
Does Kite change anything in my Google Analytics account?
Answering questions only requires reading your data. Kite runs reports and reads your property's settings, and those reads don't change your configuration or the numbers your team sees in Google Analytics.
