Old news already, Google renamed their Urchin service to
Google Analytics
and made it free for everyone. I just played a little with it and it's
cool. Little scary though, you're giving all your website usage
precious data to Google, the company that wants to dominate the world's
information! ;)
I've used some web analitycs software but not much, so my opinion is
not that of an expert but I think that the new interface is not just
simple and usable, it's just excellent. I'll see what I can get from it
in the next few months, but so far I liked it. It's like they put the
ROI concept up front and that's good for anyone wanting to drive a site
not only as a hobby. Have you played with the funnels? That's nice info!
Anyway, it turns out that now the service is not taking any new sign-ups because it had some
huge demand and little troubles.
For those of you wanting to know what do yo gain from it as a webmaster or interested into applying it to
Community Server,
Dennis van der Stelt sum
it's up
here.
As
Seth Godin says "... if it's possible to test and measure successfully in a medium, it's inevitable that people
will
test and measure. And when your competition tests and measures, they're
going to evolve faster than you do.". So go and implement it.