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Google Launches Web Traffic Analysis Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the walking-the-fine-line-between-free-and-advertising dept.

segphault writes to pass along that Ars Technica has an interesting article about the recently released Google Analytics. Analytics is Google's new traffic analysis service that helps you to know everything from "how your visitors found you [to] how they interact with your site." Analytics is also built to integrate with AdWords if you are already utilizing that service.

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  1. Flash based? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 0, Troll
    Analytics will generate a Flash-based map of the world that shows you which regions your traffic comes from.

    What about those of us who don't use Flash? Why use Flash? Wouldn't it be just as easy to generate a table showing the same information?

    Flash-rendered graphs are provided with each data collection so that you can get a quick visual overview.

    See my previous question above.

    Seems like Flash is the new blink tag.

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  2. Re:Death knell for Web Side Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've never heard of Web Side Story, but I use awstats and will continue to (I avoided the problems that led to many awstats installs being hacked). I don't want google to have any detailed data about my sites or visitors. I don't and won't use adwords. They know enough already.