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Hi seequs, to complement Cyrus answer, here is an explanation of Matt Cutts related to your question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU. And if you think about it, it wouldn't be fair since not everyone uses Google Analytics. About the spam harming your site, if we talk about ghost spam there is nothing to worry(except for your data of course) since there is not real interaction with the spam and any of your pages, it all happens in GA. On the other hand, Crawler Spam does access your site, and it uses your resources, although is nothing to be alarmed since visits from this type of spam are less frequent than ghosts. If you want to fully block crawlers you can do it by adding some lines to your .htaccess file, like this STOP REFERRER SPAM RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt.com [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} buttons-for-website.com [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F] It seems that the problem with the spam is not that simple. For what I understand they are preparing a guide. In the meantime, if you are not already using a filter based on valid hostnames, I recommend you to do it, one filter, and you will forget about the ghost spam. You can find more information about this solution here http://moz.com/community/q/seeing-massive-spikes-in-direct-traffic-with-100-bounce-rates?#reply_298133 Hope it helps,

There was another thread created just three hours ago on the same thing - http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-export-data You can also try the search feature. But it depends on what you want to export, I'd recommend looking in the above thread. You could be able to do it all via the custom report section if you don't mind pdfs.