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**NuWeb.co.uk** · 11-17-2005, 10:18 AM

Release: Google Analystics
Url: https://www.google.com/analytics

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What is Google Analytics?
Google Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance the visitor experience. Improve your website return on investment, increase conversions, and make more money on the web.

With over 80 reports, your free Google Analytics account will track visitors through your site, and will keep track of the performance of your marketing campaigns - whether they're AdWords campaigns, email campaigns, or any other advertising program. With this information, you'll know which keywords are really working, which ad text is the most effective, and where your visitors are dropping off during the conversion process. Don't be fooled by the fact that this functionality is available to you for free - Google Analytics is a full-featured, powerful analytics package.

AdWords advertisers can find all of these benefits from within their AdWords account - Google Analytics has been fully integrated with AdWords. All of your reports and settings are available from the Analytics tab.

To get started with Google Analytics, simply visit www.google.com/analytics or click the Analytics tab in your AdWords account. You'll be guided through a simple sign-up process, that will require the addition of a code snippet. Once that's done, you'll start gathering data immediately, on track for improved ROI!

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How much does Google Analytics cost?
Google Analytics is absolutely free! We're very pleased to be able to offer this web analytics solution for no charge, allowing anyone with a website to track conversion data, analyze the flow of visitors through their site, and identify elements of their site that could be changed to improve visitor retention.

This free version is limited to 5 million pageviews a month - however, users with an active Google AdWords account are given unlimited pageview tracking. In addition, Google Analytics is completely integrated into the AdWords front-end and with your AdWords campaign, making it easy to track your AdWords ROI.

I coded it into NuWeb, although theirs a small bug i think. That makes google unable to read if the code is put in pages with Gzip compression

... ANYWAY.. It looks great, many cool features.. all for the grand price of £FREE

**TimSchroeder** · 11-17-2005, 12:31 PM

Yea, pretty cool. I'm testing it on a couple of my sites. It takes like 12 hours for the first reports to become available.

**NuWeb.co.uk** · 11-17-2005, 01:48 PM

Huh.. Dident expect it to take 12 hours.
I just hope it dont need that validation thing, as its not working with my site at all, even with gzip disabled..

Ahh well, well see in 12 hours

**TimSchroeder** · 11-17-2005, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by NuWeb.co.uk

Huh.. Dident expect it to take 12 hours.
I just hope it dont need that validation thing, as its not working with my site at all, even with gzip disabled..

Ahh well, well see in 12 hours

Don't worry about the status validation. It does not seem to work right. It did the same thing to me but I checked back the next morning and it's working.

**madkad** · 11-17-2005, 02:02 PM

i have tryed it and i am keeping it i like it yes it took about 12 hours to start getting a report from it and its realy easy to set up just copy and past the code in the middle of the <head> </head> tags after the meta tags and that it sorted just sit back and wait

**NuWeb.co.uk** · 11-17-2005, 02:45 PM

I got too many stats programs running. Although they are run on my server, so people thing you "tamper" with them, when they jelous or something.

At least google will give many people a way to find info, i wonder if google allows other people view the stats?

(i do like the user ability, i created a "GUEST" account

... he he)

**madkad** · 11-17-2005, 03:08 PM

are yer i didnt see that nice little idea that as like nuweb said i have my on website stats but people do think you have tamperd with them so google can prove other wise lol