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- dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4
Urchin 5 analyzes traffic for one or more websites and provides accurate and easy-to-understand reports on your visitors - where they come from, how they use your site, what converts them into customers, and much more. If you have content behind a security firewall or on an intranet or internal network that prevents you from using the Google Analytics service, Urchin 5 software is for you.
Available in French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, English, and Japanese, Urchin 5 software is offered exclusively through Google Analytics partners. In addition to software sales, partner services include paid support plans, advanced customized service, product training, and analytics consulting. - dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sweet, now not only do they know everything personal about you, they also know which sites you run and everything about them! :)
- thewildman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Whoa! The Terms of Service are crazy! Ready #6 on this page http://www.google.com/analytics/tos_en-US.html
"You hereby grant to Google and its wholly owned subsidiaries a limited license to use Your trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names and other distinctive brand features ("Brand Features") in presentations, marketing materials, customer lists, and financial reports. Further, Unless You notify Google otherwise in writing, Google and its wholly owned subsidiaries retain the right to identify You as a valued customer and optionally issue a press release that, at a minimum, discloses You have licensed the Product and that the Product is Your preferred web analytics package."
Fine if I'm running a small personal website. If I'm running a business website with lots of traffic...no thank you. - danlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2offer urchin for free, website owners get better traffic data
better traffic data, better conversion from clicks to sales
better conversion rate from clicks to sales, more google adwords revenue.
more google adwords revenue, more google quarterly revenue
more google quarterly revenue, bigger atherton house for sergey and larry
this is not REALLY free. nothing is really free - MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am all for free stuff, but who isn't.
I just sympathize for the others that will go out of business because of one's free solutions.
Free Google Music Store: Google pays all music labels big bucks so everyone can have free songs in any format while pledging "google4life"; what a great service, everyone's happy...except Steve Jobs. - tawker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love this, it makes life a lot easier. Finally, a solution for the blogger types who don't want to run a web server to get raw logs (will google intergrate this into blogger directly though, that is the question)
- MacHarborGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2IMO, your not a monopoly unless you are making a massive ammount of money FROM your users. Google gets their money from advertisers. I don't know of a single Google service, that I use at least, that I pay for. I have free email, free groups, free site stats, free maps, free earth display, free search, free free free.
They make technology avaliable to everyone who wants it. Not to anyone who can afford it. What's next?
Free Google Anti-Virus
Free Google Anti-Spyware
Free Google Music Store
Free Google MMORPG
Free Google Trips to the Moon - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2one more thing that I'd rather not allow g(ov)oogle to know about. One day many people will regret that google got a hold of so much information about them.
- tritium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know if the software price will be lowered? The Urchin Live server used to cost ~ $200/month, and if that's now free, I wonder if they're going to similarlly lower the cost of the software in order to keep it attractive, as compared to the Live option.
- brian2k1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't want Google to know any more about my clients websites than necessary. I agree with previous comments about people regretting, especially ecommerce site owners, the use of this service from google. It's great for personal or ecommerce that is not your primary business but that's it. If Microsoft were doing this it would be a conspiracy theory, why is it ok for google to know everything and give everything away? Nothing is FREE.
- rotero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh my god, it seems all internet company now are owned by Google..... sometimes it gives me a scary thought
- wilcohol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More power for Google.. Now they know more about us!
- jtamboli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just bought Mint last night, so I was upset to see this. The terms of service say it's only free if you have Adwords on your site, though, and I don't. I'd rather not have ads on my small, personal site at this point, so I guess I'll be sticking with Mint for now. It's prettier, too.
- BinaryJay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to use Urchin years back, this is much better than the last revision I dealt with. For free, why not? Better dig into the privacy documents, though.
- dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just noticed something.. . It doesn't say "beta"!
- Discosis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We just bought Urchin 5 a few months ago, but it'd be nice to not have to run the log analysis side of things.
The limitations are 5 million page hits (per month I think), but if you have an active AdWords account there's no limit.
This is a good job of Google purchasing an outside company and integrating their technology with their own very well.
And, the Urchin support folks have always been great! - Mr.White, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yup...we dugg the google anayltics site...but the fact remains that All our base are belong to Google
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait, did they buy urchin?
- waz67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"the Service is provided without charge to You for up to 5 million pageviews per month per account, and if You have an active Adwords campaign in good standing, the Service is provided without charge to You without a pageview limitation."
- ba747heavy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2All your base belong to google.
Awesome - ghettodev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is going to have a severe impact on the rest of the industry though.
- MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great, trying it now.
However, I can see how Google will become a monopoly on the internet. - buss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ooo, has anyone else noticed the more than utilitarian design? Its very nice and very un-google-like (in a good way).
- matthew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have no stats yet, but at least there are no speed issues now
- Rkstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I signed up more than 30 hours ago, and it's still saying "Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now. Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours."
- citystar05, on 07/21/2008, -0/+0I really love this site but there are bugs that really need to be worked out.
- zatacka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg taking down a google site? Don't think so. Combined with the other places that you could read this(such as the official Google blog)? A tad more realistic.
- zelig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+024 hours...stilllllllllll... no stats .
- tawker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, I've had it up overnight collecting stats but it's not reporting anything at all just 0's for the totals.
- Spazkake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0for some reason it ALLWAYS tells me invalid imput
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If I had a website I'd so use it, I just started one so its not worth it now, maybe somewhere down the road.
- drawab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google Analytics is LIVE
ooops OFFLINE --
back again LIVE __
nope OFFLine Again.
Dont know if its Diggers bombarding the server or it could be just a buggy script but over the few hours I have had 4-5 server notices already
All said - Thumbs Up Google - WTG WOOT - zelig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0THE New STATS ARE HERE! (repeat)
- MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Google = Walmart."?
Walmart = evil... - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm.. Digg is now using this :D
- genen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+048 Hours NO STATS! I got on very early on and added 3 websites to track. Next day digg had a link to Analytics and the site was just about dead withing a few hours. Then the official announcement and it got a little faster, but still some 502 errors.
Now 48 hours after adding my sites there are no stats for any of them and good luck trying to get through to their tech support.
I think I'll wait another week before getting my hopes up... they are NOT ready for prime time. - t35t0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg takes down google
- Fantt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So, have we seen the end of the entire internet statistics industry now? Cool. I love disruptive tech.
- jtnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, Mint and Urchin/Google are completely different. Mint has no historical data tools. It's just good for a current snapshot of isolated sets of data. Urchin/Google is MUCH more in depth and provides much more detailed look at your current data as well as historical data. I could see sites using both of these. The companies that really need to worry are the folks that make NetTracker, WebTrends, etc.
- thewildman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Love it! It's now "live" again...got my domain all setup and ready to go!
- crpietschmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One step closer to taking over the world. Now if I only knew what the set number of steps are...
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is it me, or is googles server lagging like hell. Please don't tell me they got dugg.
- Elektra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Currently Undergoing Maintenance
Google Analytics reporting is currently undergoing maintenance and will be available shortly. Your site traffic is being logged and you will be able to see the data after system maintenance has concluded.
Heh...Interesting. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Godly!
- lordryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no stats after 18 hours...and it's saying to check the status column for errors...and there arent' any there...???
- nodomain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0google-analytics.com now serves a 404 error. Dugg? Slashdotted?
Neat ;-) - SirThom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WOOT! =)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is very, very cool.
for those who feel bad about buying mint, fear not. it's still much more performant to your users when you use your own tools (like mint) to analyze the logs that you're already creating rather than make your users hit google every page so google can track it for you. but for people that don't want to bother, this is awesome.
it sure looks like google analytics will do a hell of a lot more statisical analyzing than most of the free packages do. so +digg. I'm signing up as soon as you clowns stop hogging the server! - sdenike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0uscfan, why would you buy Mint? AWStats is free and has more features from waht I have heard... unless you just want all the Ajax goodness.
- blatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome. This was so expensive yesterday.
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