Spending a lot of time monitoring your blog traffic for clues and trends? Using Google Analytics probably can make your traffic monitoring more productive if you know how.
Most common users of Google Analytics (GA) just use or analyse whatever GA presented on their individual dashboard. Some of the information make sense, some are alien. As for expert users, analyzing the information provided by Google can be time consuming, especially if you want to see your own charts and graphs. After all charts and graphs give better understanding then the usual text listing.
With Google Analytics Data Export API, you can automate retrieving those data and create your own graphs. It will be painstaking at first to create queries to dig the data but it is only done once. From there it will be a breeze looking at your own graphs instead of multiple default graphs.
For details, head to Google Analytics's Increase Your Productivity with the API page.