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[pkjm17]

You could also use hitbox, websidestory, statcounter, etc...........

[michaelper22]

Google Analytics is overall powerful and somewhat useful. It does have a good amount of reports with nice graphs. However, most of the information is only useful to people in marketing departments, not for those doing SEO stuff. The interface suffers from an outdated design, and it is difficult to drill down on data. Once you get really interested in who is visiting your site (looking to find out from which country a search was made in, and also associating other details with a particular visitor - referrers, entry page, etc.), you will realize what I'm talking about.

My rating: 3/5 stars.

It's only a matter of coicidence that a tool called Reinvigorate (http://www.reinvigorate.net/) lets you do all that I mentioned above. That is one great product.

FirefoxRocks, on Sep 6 2006, 11:41 PM, said:

I don't see any negatives associated with Google Analytics, unless you DON'T want Google to index your site.

Google Analytics does not index your site. It is not connected to the Googlebot spider in any way.

[mayank]

Google Analytics seems to be good, However, lately I realized that it was not able provide the correct information at all! It happed that one day my personal website was down and I'd linked to one of my friends blog but still it showed on his analytics that he was getting traffic from my website.

How could it be possible...when I'd closed the site on my own and was updating the site...how could he get the traffic from my website. Later on, I switched to www.haveamint.com which seems to be providing much more accurate information. With the help of plugins, we can get good information. However, it doesnt have that detailed information, which analytics is able to provide, but atleast it is providing the correct info.

[michaelper22]

mayank, on Apr 20 2007, 04:04 AM, said:

Google Analytics seems to be good, However, lately I realized that it was not able provide the correct information at all! It happed that one day my personal website was down and I'd linked to one of my friends blog but still it showed on his analytics that he was getting traffic from my website.

How could it be possible...when I'd closed the site on my own and was updating the site...how could he get the traffic from my website. Later on, I switched to www.haveamint.com which seems to be providing much more accurate information. With the help of plugins, we can get good information. However, it doesnt have that detailed information, which analytics is able to provide, but atleast it is providing the correct info.

From what I know, Google Analytics updates int data ever 24 hours. That means everything you are looking at is a day old. Statcounter and Mint are real-time, which is almost a neccessity these days.