RSSGoogle Debuts Free Web Stats Service
By Nate Mook | Published November 14, 2005, 11:30 AM
Google on Monday took the wraps off a new service for tracking Web statistics, which will be offered free to site owners and AdWords customers. Google Analytics is designed to help businesses improve their marketing campaigns by seeing how visitors find them and how they interact with a Web site.
The new offering is based on Urchin, which Google purchased in March. Google has integrated the service with AdWords to enable its online advertisers to easily track the results of any campaign, be it graphic banner, text link, newsletter or paid search.
Like has done with most products it has acquired, including Picasa and Google Earth, Google Analytics will be free for all users. Non-AdWords customers can use the service to track up to 5 million pageviews per month.
But what are analytics? On the Google Blog, product marketing manager Brett Crosby explained that, "The tools and services of the web analytics world give businesses precise information on what customers want, so that they can improve their online marketing and website content."
"These services help provide answers to questions like: Which keywords attract the most visitors? Which email campaigns create more customers? And how to design web page content that holds people’s attention?" Crosby added.
Urchin is currently deployed by a number of Fortune 500 companies, Google says, and it hopes by bringing the technology to the masses at no cost, it can help to "improve the overall Web." Google Analytics has been designed to support sites ranging from a few pageviews a week to millions.
Larger businesses, however, can also obtain more advanced customization of the new service through Google representatives and Google service partners. 16 languages are currently supported, along with three built-in summary reports: executive, marketer and webmaster.
I was 3/4's of the way signing up for this service when I had to agree to some statement about billing or something... I canceled at that point. And I also agree with some of the other statements users are posting on this subject... slow. I've had Gmail for over a year now and everyday it seems slower and slower to open email, so maybe someones resources are starting to run a little thin?
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|Prevent Google from logging your visits.
http://labnol.blogspot.c...tics-from-tracking.html
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|applied last night.
this thing is slooooooooooooooooow...
Google's engineers keep on unleashing services as if they have unlimited bandwidth. (web accelerator, analytics)
If they continue, google's services will take a hit.
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|Is there anything that Google doesn't track!?
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|Well, that's what they do, right?
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|Probably not. I just got an e-mail notice in my GMAIL that your mom missed her dental appointment. You might want to remind her about that.
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|1) The sign-up is indeed crawling. Each page takes a good 30+ seconds to load.
2) The EULA insists that the code CANNOT be used for commercial purposes.
3) I logged in and the Analysis pages are equally slow.
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|Looks good.....could really be helpful...hmmmm.
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|Looks good, but I doubt it will provide as much info as Awstats does...
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|awstats > *
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|Well... here goes my Beta Test ...
#1) I do not like that this is like Google Maps so far - you have to sign up for each account...
#2) Accept User Agreement ... 10 seconds... 15 seconds... why is this hanging? Let's try again... their server must be getting some major activity... and it stopped. ... ok... Back... Continue ... Continue...
Well... let's pull out IE and let Mozilla Firefox rest for a moment...
And it worked...
And now the site shows the account and then went down for maintenance.
Looks like this announcement may have been a day or two premature =)
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