Google is offering webmasters full-featured, powerful analytics package from Urchin to determine how many people are visiting their sites, to view the source of referrals to your site and what they're clicking on. In March, Google acquired Urchin Software and promptly lowered the monthly cost of the company's hosted Web analytics service, Urchin On Demand, from $495 to $199. Today, the search company is re-branding Urchin under the name Google Analytics and making it available to everyone for free.

Google Analytics has been updated to integrate with Google AdWords. It also includes new summary views of traffic and trends, pre-formatted for executives, marketers, and webmasters.

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Smigit on 14 Nov 2005 - 12:54
pretty neat. I'll see what it offers that webalyset and awestats dont
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Louis on 14 Nov 2005 - 13:06
It's looking good, got to wait 12h to see it working tho.

- What next? 1TB free hosting?
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by godsfshrmn on 14 Nov 2005 - 13:13
Google is having some serious power viewing what goes on with the web. Now they can track individual websites. Don't forget nothing is free. Google has monkeys on the other end sorting out all the data they will be getting!
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by CDog on 14 Nov 2005 - 13:35
Yeah but if you're that concerned you wouldn't be using the Internet, or posting stuff to a website that anyone in the world could get to.
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by YaddaMe on 15 Nov 2005 - 12:24
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Now they can track individual websites.


Now they do? FWIW, they've already had this ability... this just increases the number of sites.

Last edited by 10547 on 15 Nov 2005 - 12:31
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Dreamchaser on 14 Nov 2005 - 13:49
I just read @ http://www.go4i.net/article1286.html (Interesting One)

Good go google
(5 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by tlogank on 14 Nov 2005 - 13:55
It is so hard not to love Google. They keep buying companies that charge for software, then they make it 2x's better, then give it to everyone for free (Web tools, Google Earth, Picasa2, etc.). How can you not love this?
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by rob.derosa on 14 Nov 2005 - 14:02
cause thats communism
Quote this comment #5.2 Posted by tlogank on 14 Nov 2005 - 14:11
<sarcasm>Yea, that makes sense since Google runs the government and everything.</sarcasm>
Besides, they are not forcing anything on us, just really trying to make as much information as possible available to the masses for free.
Quote this comment #5.3 Posted by Smigit on 14 Nov 2005 - 16:14
By pushing out dozens of services they are trying to capture the market, beat out the opposition and thus put us in a position where we are required to use their services. You cant avoid google if you want to, especially now that websites will be collecting onformation on your visits to them, theres really no choice (and yeah, webmasters could collect data since the dawn of time but it has always stayed with the webmaster).

Besides their goal isnt to make information easier to access, they are there to drive a profit. all that other nonesence is airy fairy sprinkles and sugar coating on what google is really about
Quote this comment #5.4 Posted by rob.derosa on 14 Nov 2005 - 20:57
tlogank - lol i know. was just messing
Quote this comment #5.5 Posted by eilegz on 15 Nov 2005 - 05:18
Smigit its not that microsoft its not doing the same thing but we see that google its not in a leader position like microsoft.

Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by DomZ on 14 Nov 2005 - 14:10
w00, been looking for some sort of web analysis tool actually.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by weiran on 14 Nov 2005 - 14:36
Heh, I was thinking of getting Mint, but maybe this will serve as a free replacement? We'll see after I get some stats ,
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by RaiderOnline on 14 Nov 2005 - 15:28
i can't login
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by bucko on 14 Nov 2005 - 15:35
It's cool but keeps connection timeout when I login.
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by ]SK[ on 14 Nov 2005 - 16:05
Yea :|
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by jwjw1 on 14 Nov 2005 - 15:40
I got a message..that its currently under maintanence...I got logged in..but its slow and won't show any logs.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by ev0| on 14 Nov 2005 - 15:50
All this putting stuff for free is starting to concern me. If google just keeps aquiring stuff and making it free and supported only by their advertising, they're going to put a lot of small companies that depend on service fees out of business. that's going to cost people jobs, and that's NOT GOOD.
Quote this comment #11.1 Posted by shihchiun on 14 Nov 2005 - 19:44
How do you think Google gets things done? They have employees too..
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by Netrack on 14 Nov 2005 - 15:50
hope neowin will use this
Quote this comment #12.1 Posted by Smigit on 14 Nov 2005 - 16:16
why? what do we have to gain if neowin uses it? Its just 15 more lines of code we need to load on each page visit.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by Toastyone on 14 Nov 2005 - 15:56
and the Google train keeps marching on....
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by tsutton on 14 Nov 2005 - 16:01
Like others, I can't log on too. Hopefully it will be back up soon!
Quote this comment #14.1 Posted by Ashl on 14 Nov 2005 - 16:21
I wanna login! is that google base thing working yet either?
Quote this comment #14.2 Posted by Subfusion on 14 Nov 2005 - 17:21
It takes a while to login, but once you logged in you get a message saying they're upgrading the accounts.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #15 Posted by sunbiz_3000 on 14 Nov 2005 - 16:29
I just logged in..... and Im just starting to look into it !!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #16 Posted by Subfusion on 14 Nov 2005 - 17:16
This is boss, I love Urchin!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #17 Posted by webspot on 14 Nov 2005 - 17:37
The site is going soooooooooooooo slow
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #18 Posted by bid1 on 14 Nov 2005 - 17:46
Keep in mind tha Micro$oft has been doing the same thing since the 80s - buying companies, rebranding their products and selling them to us.
The difference here is that Google gives it to us fro free and Micro$soft charged us for it up the gazoo. Oh, the other difference, google's stuff actually works. I have no problems with them (google) collecting all my info and using it anyway they want. Hell if my parole officer wants me to call him every 2 hours to tell him where I am, why should I have a problem with google knowing what sites I've been to?
Trust me folks, if someone wants to find out anything about you, they will.
Quote this comment #18.1 Posted by Rodrigo on 14 Nov 2005 - 18:00
Sure then, I hope you are not using Windows writing that incredible biased stupid bash.

Every people that writes Microsoft with an $ should be shot to death, don't breathe my air please.
Quote this comment #18.2 Posted by Sub on 14 Nov 2005 - 18:28
^ I dont even respond to people who have to report to parole officers.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #19 Posted by f00kie on 14 Nov 2005 - 18:53
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Thanks for stopping by. We are currently migrating existing customers to the newly improved Google Analytics service. This process will be completed later this afternoon. Please come back then to sign up for Google Analytics.


Looks awesome though!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #20 Posted by Liger™ on 14 Nov 2005 - 19:00
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #21 Posted by MOGua on 14 Nov 2005 - 21:41
...so slooooooow...

note: In providing this free service, Google is going to put many paid professional site-tracking services out of business; it's a $450M industry.
Quote this comment #21.1 Posted by shafi on 15 Nov 2005 - 07:16
like microsoft

google internet monoply, sort of i'm lovin it.
Quote this comment #21.2 Posted by cylonite on 16 Nov 2005 - 07:35
well why dont these so called "paid professionals" put out a better software?
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #22 Posted by cork1958 on 14 Nov 2005 - 23:19
I'm tryin to add it to a site that doesn't have the www part in it's address. (Personal website on a friends local ISP) Keep getting invalid url format, or something like that.
Quote this comment #22.1 Posted by TrevorB on 14 Nov 2005 - 23:57
Try adding www as a subdomain redirecting to the home directory. If you're able to do that, it should work.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #23 Posted by vetSMeK on 14 Nov 2005 - 23:22
cool, logged in now and looking at it
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #24 Posted by ~*McoreD*~ on 15 Nov 2005 - 00:38
Too bad it doesn't support sites without www like http://microsoftuse.temp.powweb.com/mcored/
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #25 Posted by mdew on 15 Nov 2005 - 06:37
blocked: google-analytics.com just added to the list.
Quote this comment #25.1 Posted by dj_alex_m on 16 Nov 2005 - 03:03
Someone is very paranoid!
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #26 Posted by nickg78 on 15 Nov 2005 - 20:44
I'm afraid this thing is not working...

I have added the code to 2 of my sites, before 14 hours and the stats always report 0 visitors.
Quote this comment #26.1 Posted by Ashl on 16 Nov 2005 - 22:21
be patient mine has now started working after lots of nothing!
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