Changing default date range in Google Analyics?

Question

Is there a way to change the default date range of 31 days in GA? After changing it and clicking apply, only the current report changes? Next time I use GA, 31 days again???

Here is documentation on GA date range.

Answer 1

Google Analytics does NOT support changing the default date range. Some people have noticed that if you bookmark a specific set of dates, those dates end up in the url. Unfortunately, if you create a bookmark with a specific set of dates, those dates will be static and not change. You will never see new data.

However you can create a javascript bookmark (bookmarklet) that dynamically calculates the dates that should be in the url and sends you to the url. I have found three examples of this done for Google Analytics for this purpose.

http://whiletruecode.com/post/change-the-default-google-analytics-date-range-with-a-bookmarklet

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7509010/bookmark-with-date-in-the-url

http://ratafia.info/post/70509179/bookmarklet-to-show-todays-stats-in-google-analytics