I sure hope so. The current offering (Urchin assimilated) isn’t that useful.
Congrats to Veen, Congrats to Google. To PeterMe and everyone at Adaptive Path, I’m sorry for your loss.
I suspect Measure Map will first be available to domains Google hosts today (blogger.com) by default and positioning Google as the host-of-choice for tomorrow.
I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately.
I consider all my web searches, this post – and generally anything that’s not email or an instant messsage – public.
Now, I’m cool with 1 million random results from the index being handed over to the government under one single condition – anyone, anyone at all, a PhD candidate, a 6th grader, a homeless political candidate – request and receive the same information.
Yes. In the same way I feel all the security cameras on Nicollet Avenue should be accessible via a web browser by the general public – any of you should be able to request the same information. Outside of quantity – I’m not sure how this is different than Google’s Zeitgeist.
Actually, the fact we don’t have easy access to this information seems like a public disservice.
After a couple months of being completely without site analytics, I thought I’d try out Google Analytics.
Things it doesn’t measure; RSS feeds, downloads, downloads from RSS feeds.
Considering 95% of what I’m tracking is accessible via an RSS feed (like podcasts). Google isn’t helping me. The previous iteration of their tool – Urchin, was a server log cruncher, not a pixel bug (little big of javascript on every page). As a server log cruncher – I could measure RSS subscriptions and related downloads. As a pixel bug – despite how sexy the map overlay view of traffic is – I’m helping Google more than the other way around.
I’m confident the people that I’m writing this for – i.e. you – are reading this via some type of RSS aggregator (yes, My Yahoo and the gFeed counts). So, ironically, the people I’m most interested in – i.e. you – aren’t counted via Google. Only the people viewing the HTML version of the site. Like those coming by via Google. Hmmmmm. This doesn’t feel right.
Related: Read/WriteWeb: “Page Views per user: RSS blows HTML away”
Update 5 Jan 2006: Google Analytics doesn’t give full referrer URLs. It’d be more useful if it did.
Since Garrick is a fairly uncommon first name, I’m always amused to find those who share it. Especially when they have their own Palace of Stuff (thanks to Jeff @ manicwave).
The sponsored link in Google’s results for ‘garrick’ also amuses me:
WP-GotLucky 1.2 includes database and RSS2 support
The WP-GotLucky plugin send you an email everytime a page on your WordPress weblog is Google’s “I feel lucky” search result.
For suggestions, comments, and all other ongoing concerns with this plugin, head over to the WP-GotLucky dedicated page