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Google Analytics API Goes Public

Posted by kdawson on from the get-your-hot-data dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Google has announced the now public beta for the Google Analytics API (described here). The API lets developers create client applications that can pull analytics data, to mash it up with other data or to present it in new ways. The API has been available through a private beta program for about a year, and some applications are already out there: examples include Polaris on Adobe Air and Analytics for Android."

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  1. A method for offloading processor useage by Crudely_Indecent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The clients now perform the rendering and Google need only provide the raw data. It's brilliant and a great move. As applications are written, refined and adopted, Google will benefit from the reduced load of the rendering servers. Their bandwidth usage would probably go down as well.

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    "Lame" - Galaxar
  2. Google Analytics? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is that the thing that makes a lot of web pages take forever to load?

    1. Re:Google Analytics? by Crudely_Indecent · · Score: 5, Funny

      No way, you're thinking of another app, Google Maps.

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      "Lame" - Galaxar
  3. Re:Shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was pretty pissed when they bought urchin (the company that made what is now 'google analytics') because they the first thing google did was prevent you from hosting the analytics yourself.

    No, that's still available: http://www.google.com/urchin/index.html

  4. Re:Shame by Frankie70 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google paid around 30 Million Dollars for buying Urchin Software whose product it originally was.
    Maybe if you could buy that division from Google & open source it. That'd be sweet.

  5. Re:Shame by eareye · · Score: 4, Informative

    On that note is there a good FOSS analytics package, preferably one that works well cross platform?

    One open source alternative to Google Analytics is Piwik.