Google to Give Away Web Analytics for Free

[EquityMind]

In a move that we all expected, Google is now giving the Urchin web analytics service for free:

[clickz.com...]

We also figured that Google was planning on announcing something new at PubCon, this looks like it might be it.

[jezzer300]

And remember google and use your stats too!

[pvancleve]

Biggest concern ought to be privacy and data mining. Not to mention that they will have their competitors pay per click tracking also. With the information collected, another concern would be to possibly manipulate the online advertising market. So far it appears that the anti google sentiment is growing and those that are serious about doing advertising on line are not going to want google handling all of their campaign information.

[roxah]

pvancleve i agree this is just more "back ups" anti googlers can use

also adding the cod ein the header is the best because if for some reason the visitor doesnt wait fo the whole pageto load and leave th esite, or go to another part of the site and then another or what not, it will not track that use because it never reached the java script in the footer or the bottom or whatver, i sugest the header, just to be safe and also to gaurentee tha tit will track the most users. its only 20k... and its googles servers GOOGLES! lol

[markbaa]

I've had my code live for 2.5 days now and still no reports. Am I the only one? Pretty sure I've got the code right, and the google test function is happy with it.

[carguy84]

I haven't either and I know the code is there.

although I'm also running regular urchin and I've noticed they reused a lot of the same variable names, so maybe that is screwing up my stats.

Regular urchin is still chugging along fine tho.

chip-

[nmattheij]

I got results after 12 hours. Do you also have the code on your homepage/index?

As far as I can see the stats are updates daily. I haven't had time to play with it much, but it looks ok.

[huulbaek]

I want to use the regular expressions to weed out .php because some link to .php and some not.

I hardly know anything about regular expressions, but I am trying with:

Field A -> Extract A -- Reguest Stem -- (.*)\.php

Output To -> Constructor -- Reguest Stem -- $A1

Anyone have an idea if that would work?

[briggsb]

I received some stats from a couple days ago, but nothing since. Still waiting on more. I guess they are unindated and can't get the stats out fast enough. Anyone else having the same problem?

If this works it would be a great back up to my regular log analyzer.

[Kevin French]

Just a quick update in case you missed it earlier today.....Gogole Analytics has temporarily suspended new sign-ups.

" Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand, and as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity "

[Aberdeen]

Does anyone have any idea when it will become available to sign up again?

Cheers

[lane]

I just tried signing in and had the same "wait your time" response. Any insiders know what the deal is for new subscribers?

[corbing]

Looks like they are trying to increase capacity before allowing any new signups.

[edited by: jatar_k at 8:21 am (utc) on Nov. 28, 2005]
[edit reason] no email quotes thanks [/edit]

[vitaplease]

I'm finally seeing Google Adwords referrals in the stats

[hamids68]

hello
I havn`t seen any sample of google analytic. may you show me one? I looked at its page.. but I couldn`t found it.

[wrockca]

I like how they have the organic results layed out by search engine and each term that is being search on in that engine. Its very helpful information.

[Jalinder]

do you get all that in one screen?

[wrockca]

ya its nice with the drop downs its very simple

[Robski]

I first saw Google analytics when it was introduced at PubCon in Vegas, much to my dismay when I returned home they were no longer accepting new accounts. Now, a month has gone by and still nothing! What is going on with them? Wouldn't it at least make more sense to enable the old Urchin website if you are having problems with googleŠanalytics? I guess acquiring a service for millions of dollars and then closing it down for almost ten percent of the year must be some sort of brilliant business ploy. I wonder how people would react towards Ebay if it closed down new registrations with their newly acquired Skype.

[joeduck]

Same with me Robeski, though when I complained I got a very nice email apology.

What's odd is that you'd think bandwidth would be the main issue scaling up the Urchin deployment, and Google certainly isn't lacking in that dept.