Google has officially launched Analytics, a robust new web analysis system that provides site owners with traffic metrics and massive amounts of useful marketing data. Based on technology originally developed by a Californian company called Urchin that Google acquired in March, Analytics integrates with Google's popular AdWords system, and will vastly improve the quality and quantity of data provided to existing AdWords users. Those of you that don't use AdWords can still use Analytics by adding a simple javascript snippet to your web site.
Analytics features an elegant user interface that leverages modern web technologies like Flash and DHTML. Although it seems a little rough around the edges (the Flash components don't display correctly in Firefox on my Linux system) the service is moderately impressive. It can export data in several formats, including XML and CSV. With Analytics, you can determine where your visitors are coming from, which links on your site are getting the most hits, how long the visitors spend on various pages of your site, and more:
Learn how visitors interact with your website and identify the navigational bottlenecks that keep them from completing your conversion goals. Find out how profitable your keywords are across search engines and campaigns. Pinpoint where your best customers come from and which markets are most profitable to you. Google Analytics gives you this and more through easy-to-understand visually enhanced reports.
It is still relatively difficult to get a good feel for the usefulness of the system at this point, but with over 80 pre-built reports, support for interactive report construction, and tracking for countless attributes, the amount of data it provides is downright prodigious. In addition to providing critical marketing data, it also tracks browser features so that web developers can make informed design decisions. Analytics will tell you the screen resolution and connection speed of your visitors, as well as whether or not their browsers support Flash and Java. Flash-rendered graphs are provided with each data collection so that you can get a quick visual overview.
Although it may not be especially useful compared to some of the critical features, the geographical map overlay is probably one of the coolest features. Analytics will generate a Flash-based map of the world that shows you which regions your traffic comes from. You can click individual regions to get additional statistics, and you can use Flash's built-in zoom feature to get a closer look at specific locations.
The site overlay mechanism is one of the other particularly interesting features. It will superimpose click statistics on top of your actual page so that you can (hypothetically) see what people are clicking just by browsing your site. During my experiments with Analytics, I had some trouble getting the site overlay feature to work correctly. Clicking the individual links in the site overlay caused the Analytics start page to load in the iframe rather than the actual content.
Analytics fits perfectly into Google's advertising platform and business model. Despite the bugs (which may be specific to Linux or Firefox) Google's newest service looks powerful and comprehensive. The value of the features and the benefits of AdWords integration will probably be more than enough to convince site owners to use AdWords rather than a competing service.
considering just a handful of posts above you, another user complained of the same thing, and yet another user provided a useful reason why:
Beware, one of the banner advertiser on that page (netshelter.net) is trying to buffer overflow with strangely crafted cookie. Hope you do not run your Firefox on Windows...
FTFA - Lowering memory latencies is a good thing, of course, but low-latency modules typically cost twice as much as standard DIMMs.
I'd have to say this is right on when applied picking a woman to spend your life with... low-latency memory is a BAD BAD thing, and VERY expensive. My next time around, I'm going with the "CHEAPER", high-latency model that can't immediately recall everything I've ever said while arguing her point... Roses and jewelry can cost you over the long run friends...
*yawn* wheres the news here? When I was in highschool I had free internet all 4 years, as all you needed to access the schools dial-up account was a username/password combo, and NONE of the teachers save 1 or 2 had actually changed their passwords.. so it was a simple matter of taking their last name, appending a first initial, and using the same thing for the password.
Without great password models like this, I wouldn't have had internet access in 1994-1997.
Little Red: why would they put all their eggs in a standards basket?
Big Bad Wolf: Heh.. Eggs??? Basket??? I didn't see anything... but why not?
Little Red: Even when that basket might not exist tomorrow?
Big Bad Wolf: *nervous laughter* Why would you think your basket would be missing tomorrow!?!?!?
duping unsuspecting Internet users out of thousands of pounds
Here in America we call this "The Biggest Loser", and the producers of this show are raking it in!! People are losing pounds left and right without the Sultan of UmmPapaMowMow...
A robot may not injure a human or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm, even if that human has jabbed him repeatedly in the arm with a practice needle
a robot must obey orders given to it by a human, except where it would conflict with the first law, and except when that order is "Hey, get better quick before the professor comes back, and then say I did it!"
A robot must protect itself, as long as that protection doesn't violate either the first or second law. Hmmm, this one sort of limits how many robots will be in the ICU in the first place eh?
what are you crazy man? He/she may be monitoring me right now! I will get the extreme sweats/jitters if I can't get to slashdot you insensitive clod!
On a more serious note, I work for a very large financial institution, and our sysadmin(s) are just cowtowing to corporate policy... I simply wanted to point out why I dislike the blog fever that exists these days, I'm not saying blogs are good or bad, just that they affect me negatively while at work, and dammit it's ALL ABOUT ME./sarcasm
Hmm, I hope this isn't too bloggish, but heres the #1 reason blogs piss me off.
My corporate firewall blocks anything slightly resembling a blog or higher.
Now that doesn't piss me off because I can't go read a bunch of morons thoughts on things that don't concern me, that pisses me off because normal people, who write articles about things that do concern me (day-to-day programming solutions/concepts) are switching over in droves to "blogging" their articles and ideas. So when I google about a particular c# or java problem I am having, and out of the top 10 results on the page 7 of them are posted to some damn blog site or in blog format, my #*$&#*$& corporate firewall won't let me get to the article.
What is wrong with a good old fashion article on a web page explaining how to get some new programming concept hammered out????
Slashdot Mirror
What's this all about? How did M$ infect my daily dosage of Slasdot/Google news?
Analytics features an elegant user interface that leverages modern web technologies like Flash and DHTML. Although it seems a little rough around the edges (the Flash components don't display correctly in Firefox on my Linux system) the service is moderately impressive. It can export data in several formats, including XML and CSV. With Analytics, you can determine where your visitors are coming from, which links on your site are getting the most hits, how long the visitors spend on various pages of your site, and more:
Learn how visitors interact with your website and identify the navigational bottlenecks that keep them from completing your conversion goals. Find out how profitable your keywords are across search engines and campaigns. Pinpoint where your best customers come from and which markets are most profitable to you. Google Analytics gives you this and more through easy-to-understand visually enhanced reports.
It is still relatively difficult to get a good feel for the usefulness of the system at this point, but with over 80 pre-built reports, support for interactive report construction, and tracking for countless attributes, the amount of data it provides is downright prodigious. In addition to providing critical marketing data, it also tracks browser features so that web developers can make informed design decisions. Analytics will tell you the screen resolution and connection speed of your visitors, as well as whether or not their browsers support Flash and Java. Flash-rendered graphs are provided with each data collection so that you can get a quick visual overview.
Although it may not be especially useful compared to some of the critical features, the geographical map overlay is probably one of the coolest features. Analytics will generate a Flash-based map of the world that shows you which regions your traffic comes from. You can click individual regions to get additional statistics, and you can use Flash's built-in zoom feature to get a closer look at specific locations.
The site overlay mechanism is one of the other particularly interesting features. It will superimpose click statistics on top of your actual page so that you can (hypothetically) see what people are clicking just by browsing your site. During my experiments with Analytics, I had some trouble getting the site overlay feature to work correctly. Clicking the individual links in the site overlay caused the Analytics start page to load in the iframe rather than the actual content.
Analytics fits perfectly into Google's advertising platform and business model. Despite the bugs (which may be specific to Linux or Firefox) Google's newest service looks powerful and comprehensive. The value of the features and the benefits of AdWords integration will probably be more than enough to convince site owners to use AdWords rather than a competing service.
GAS.... as in more hot-air from the friendly neighborhood Googledot.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16710 1&cid=13932623
considering just a handful of posts above you, another user complained of the same thing, and yet another user provided a useful reason why:
Beware, one of the banner advertiser on that page (netshelter.net) is trying to buffer overflow with strangely crafted cookie. Hope you do not run your Firefox on Windows...
I'd have to say this is right on when applied picking a woman to spend your life with... low-latency memory is a BAD BAD thing, and VERY expensive. My next time around, I'm going with the "CHEAPER", high-latency model that can't immediately recall everything I've ever said while arguing her point... Roses and jewelry can cost you over the long run friends...
So does this means M$ core mantra is "Over complicated and flashy in everything we do, but give me a command line so I can get shit done post-BSOD" ?
You probably typed an "Ohh" where you should have used a "zerOhhh"
duh
Simply IM me at w0rMzH0seTer and I'll give you all the details...
Open Sources 2? By Semour Hairs?
Without great password models like this, I wouldn't have had internet access in 1994-1997.
Little Red: why would they put all their eggs in a standards basket?
Big Bad Wolf: Heh.. Eggs??? Basket??? I didn't see anything... but why not?
Little Red: Even when that basket might not exist tomorrow?
Big Bad Wolf: *nervous laughter* Why would you think your basket would be missing tomorrow!?!?!?
mmmm.. an apple with dual cores.. I'll have to get a new apple corer of course...
no, Elaine's boss from Seinfeld. But maybe originally.. am I missing an obvious joke or is this a serious question?
Here in America we call this "The Biggest Loser", and the producers of this show are raking it in!! People are losing pounds left and right without the Sultan of UmmPapaMowMow...
the BeoWulf!!!
oh who am i kidding, I freak girls out anyways...
In Soviet Mexico, Robot Trains Doctor You!
A robot may not injure a human or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm, even if that human has jabbed him repeatedly in the arm with a practice needle
a robot must obey orders given to it by a human, except where it would conflict with the first law, and except when that order is "Hey, get better quick before the professor comes back, and then say I did it!"
A robot must protect itself, as long as that protection doesn't violate either the first or second law. Hmmm, this one sort of limits how many robots will be in the ICU in the first place eh?
what are you crazy man? He/she may be monitoring me right now! I will get the extreme sweats/jitters if I can't get to slashdot you insensitive clod!
On a more serious note, I work for a very large financial institution, and our sysadmin(s) are just cowtowing to corporate policy... I simply wanted to point out why I dislike the blog fever that exists these days, I'm not saying blogs are good or bad, just that they affect me negatively while at work, and dammit it's ALL ABOUT ME. /sarcasm
you sir.. are a godsend.
My corporate firewall blocks anything slightly resembling a blog or higher.
Now that doesn't piss me off because I can't go read a bunch of morons thoughts on things that don't concern me, that pisses me off because normal people, who write articles about things that do concern me (day-to-day programming solutions/concepts) are switching over in droves to "blogging" their articles and ideas. So when I google about a particular c# or java problem I am having, and out of the top 10 results on the page 7 of them are posted to some damn blog site or in blog format, my #*$&#*$& corporate firewall won't let me get to the article.
What is wrong with a good old fashion article on a web page explaining how to get some new programming concept hammered out????
I'm out (from the Almost-a-blog-department)
I had forgotten all about it until this article mentioned it.. and now I need to know, can I still get a copy of that game somewhere?
Subway system it is not, but any new gas smell in there would be an improvement over the current smell they got going on...
Just slap on a tinfoil hat, make some new window shutters, and go back to your tofu on a stick...