Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that
generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main
highlight is that a webmaster can optimize his ad campaigns through
Google Analytics' analysis of where the visitors came from, how long
they stayed on the website, and their geographical position.
Google's service was modeled upon
Urchin Software Corporation's
analytics system, Urchin on Demand (Google acquired Urchin Software in March
2005). Google still supplies the standalone Urchin on Demand software.
Due to extreme demand for the service, Google closed Analytics to new
sign-ups. Currently, only the 234,735 people who created accounts before
November 22 and paying Adwords users are able to
use the service.
Google is slowly adding capacity to the service, data collected now updates
within 12 hours. Some users can officially add up to 5 site profiles (it
appears this is being rolled out to all Analytics users). In addition,
Google unoffically made it possible for existing users to add new website
profiles to track due to a bug in the blanking out of the link for new
profiles. When one views the source code for the main page, one will find a
link to add new profiles.
A screenshot of the main data analysis window
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