Fri 2 Jun 2006
Yesterday, I finally received the "Google Analytics Invitation Code" from google. Google Analytics "tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors." However it is "invitation only" due to high demand. I applied several days ago and was surprised to receive it so soon.
Anyway I set it up for SCIM web site and this blog.
Today, when I looked at the analytics report in the admin interface, I was quite shocked by the features Google Analytics provides: besides the normal statstics available in open source web log stats analyzer, such as awstats, it can also show where your visitors come from in a world map (as the one you can see in the right column of this blog, but more powerful and completely free). One of another cool features is to show your page with a image associated to each internal link to indicate how many times it is clicked.
Although the intended primary use case of Google Analytics is to track and improve google
adword performance for customs, google provides it free of charge to normal users as well. Thanks go to google, again 
