Finally… , After several months, , my google analytics invitation has arrived.
Does it offer more than any ‘usual’ page statistics tool that can be found on the net?
Short answer: absolutely! For the detailed analysis of analytics read on…

My site is hosted at dreamhost, , and they offer a pre-installed logfile analyser, , analog, , which claims to be ‘The most popular logfile analyser in the world’. , It has a decent feature set (not too much graphical fancy stuff, , but nice analysis nevertheless), , still i wanted to give a try to something different, , too - so i have installed statcounter, , ‘A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, , highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats’.

I have been quite satisfied with both statistics (although in the free version of statcounter, , the log size is limited to 100 hits) - until i have seen what google analytics is capable of.

The number of features that google analytics has to offer is HUGE. , I am using it for a week now, , and there are still some statistics which i simply did not have time to look at. , There are quick overview screens for everything important (above you can see one of them) - and if you would like to drill down to every single hit, , you have the possibility too. ,

Ever wanted to know everything about your visitors? No problem. , You can view every single visititor’s referral link, , which country/city did he come from (also displayed on the world map), , connection speed, , platform, , browser, , screen resolution (even color depth!), , language, , which keywords did lead them to you, , their loyalty, , conversion rate (i have listed just a small fraction of featues)… , and all this presented with nice graphs, , charts etc. , Simply unbelievable. ,

I will not write anything more about this tool, , since if you have it, , you know what i am talking about, , and if not, , go and get it if you are interested in your web site stats!

My advice is: forget about ANY kind of stat counter, , and request a google analytics account ASAP.

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