People per country

[Miamacs]

Long time no posting...

ok, so:

What would you advise if there's no server side stats... zero, n.a., how would you track uniques per country?

We have GA but ... *heh* you know...

Kind of urgent.
Any ideas?

[Miamacs]

ok so no one uses a stat service that can do this?

Visitor numbers, regional breakdown ( country is enough )...

Kind of hard to do now in Analytics since they took this feature out ( are they covering up for something I wonder. Not even the custom reports allow pairing the visitor number with anything that would make sense )

There's this workaround, but I figured if it's this complicated we could as well get something else.

...

please?

[edited by: Miamacs at 1:19 pm (utc) on June 18, 2009]

[cgrantski]

GA took this out? That's kinda ridiculous. Any program with a geographic resolution engine (WebTrends, Omniture come to mind) will do this. It would be very odd if GA decided to yank it. I can't think of any reason to; the geo databases used by these other programs seem reliable. It's true that RIPE and IANA don't seem to have geo databases as good as the North American ones, but that's not a reason for removing the report entirely. Humph.

[Miamacs]

yeah well, they do have geo breakdown... pretty much for anything but - what GA calls - "absolute unique visitors"

Meaning you can get a visit count, but not a *visitor* count.

No idea as to why they decided to do this. They made it pretty much impossible to get to these stats as far as I see.

( and if I'm wrong about this someone please correct me, but from the complaints and lack of official comments up on their own message board, this seems to be the case )