All Your Stats Are Belong To Us: Is Google Analytics Actually Usable?

November 29th, 2005 No questions. Previously I wasn't sure if it worked as the site was bogged down by heavy traffic.

January 11th, 2006 When Google made their newly acquired Urchin web analytics service available for free, some pundits claimed an untimely end to the web analytics industry. According to a recent report from Forrester Research High-end web analytics vendors have little to fear from Google Inc.'s free web analytics service.

April 4th, 2008 Google Analytics finally provided the long asked for feature. While daily graphs are useful, summarized weekly and monthly graphs are much better in displaying trends.

February 5th, 2008 Every time I have to find the Google Analytics tracking code again for an existing website (rather profile) , I go through the same pain of hunting it down as it is definitely not obvious. Google Analytics tracking code is unique for each profile.

August 2nd, 2006 Google Analytics increased the number of default profiles from 5 to 10. This increases the number of websites you can track.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

January 24th, 2006 After several months Google Analytics has opened their doors again to new subscribers on invitation basis. They are inviting based on email addresses submitted.

November 5th, 2008 Google Analytics is repeatedly failing today. Whenever I am trying to change my dates or even switch from dialy to weekly view I am getting the dreaded message: There was an error fetching data for this view.

March 9th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_5942" align="alignleft" width="405" caption="Google AdSense Ad"][/caption] Google AdSense is showing a very interesting and highly interactive new ad type on our site. For example, the ad shown on the left is from one of our pages (click on the image to view it) where it shows popular hobbies in India along with a Google search box which is presumably usable.Wait, there is more.

January 21st, 2008 Google had a well known proxy facility. You could use an url like http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=http://blog.taragana.com to access http://blog.taragana.com using Google as proxy.

June 9th, 2008 Gadging.com is a new (free) service which allows you to share your Google Analytics statistics with the world of just for your tools or application, get it as RSS feed for displaying on your blog, compare how your site ranks with others and more. And it takes less than a minute to configure.

October 6th, 2008 Google Analytics is a trusted third party service that provides an accurate view and detailed analysis of performance statistics of your website without asking for your own resource. It may sound strange that some other website is tracking your performance without you having to provide anything.

February 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.

January 22nd, 2007 I am using Google Calendar, as an experiment, for my projects. I noticed 5 things, between unprintable curses, which make it seriously dysfunctional as an usable product.

November 19th, 2008 Being an aspiring blogger, did you ever have questions like, - How many people have watched my video? - Are we developing the right creative content to attract new users? - How effective is my content at inspiring people to take action? If you can relate to these questions then look no further. Google has announced that it is now collaborating with Adobe Systems Inc.