Analytics is the Urchin product reborn, and is more a direct competitor to Webtrends Live and Omniture than to MeasureMap.

Measuremap is fine grained analytics specifically tailored to the needs of a blogger, tracking links in, links out and post reads as well as comments. Analytics, Webtrends, WebSideStory (Hitbox) and Omniture are all real-time “bug” based stats engines (which work with Ajax and Flash based sites) that are more suited toward generic analytics.

So its not a “which is better” just a “what is better suited to your business need.”

Google Analytics looks really great (and its servers are quite overloaded now:). Another huge success of Google.

I am keen to give this a go on my web sites. Any word on when we can sign up and start using it?

I think that when you put these products side-by-side you’ll see that they are actually pretty different in terms of the value they are able to provide directly and easily to bloggers. I’m using/trying both and while Google Analytics is a fairly powerful web analytics tool, MeasureMap is very appropriate for bloggers.

I agree with Ethan, I think your comparison will only be valid because both applications are free solutions bloggers can use to get a handle on their readership. The comparison stops there because Google has given us a tool that is useful to a very broad audience (site operators, Internet marketers, product merchandisers) and MeasureMap provides a tool that is useful to a very narrow audience (albeit a large one, bloggers.)

What I wonder is this: should/will Google (or Yahoo!, or MSN) buy MeasureMap?

Yes, I got in before accounts were suspended. I will leave my comments after I have tested it tonight. It takes 12 hours after logging in to compile stats.

This is great. I finally was able to login to my account after I posted briefly on the subject.

I agree with what the others are saying here, I don’t see this as competitor to MeasureMap (haven’t used Mint, so I can’t comment on it). I’ll still use MeasureMap as my primary tool for monitoring traffic to my blog.

That said, I hope Google Analytics pressures WebTrends to clean up their act. Most of the enterprise level analystics software is needlessly complex, and WebTrends is the worst offender(that I’ve used).

Traffic seems to decrease, GAnalytics servers seems to speed up

Managed to get in and create an account yesterday before the service was “moved to new servers” but it appears that Google’s sense of time is pretty similar to Microsofts of old.

My account still says

“Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now. Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours.”

and we’re now around 16 hours and counting…

Ditto on the waiting…

I still can’t get it to recognize the code in my header (murmurs.com). Oh well, quite sad.

This has to be the most bumbled launch Google has ever done? First pissing off paying customers, then pulling it, and now it doesn’t even seem to work (I’ve triple checked that the javascript hooks are in my page).

Well, I have it running — I signed up at midnight Sunday Pacific Time. It says I have reports, but the reports show no visitors, thus no data. I’m pretty sure I’ve had visitors - like me, and usually a lot more. I don’t know whether it is not working yet, or I have installed the script wrong.

I’m signed up, they’ve validated my headers, and my reports were supposed to be ready in 12 hours. We’re now at 27 hours and counting…

Came across this posting etc on ecademy.. see link http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=58967

Interesting Microsoft + Google rant.

“it appears that Google’s sense of time is pretty similar to Microsofts of old.

and we’re now around 16 hours and counting…”

I’m looking at 26 hours and counting…

the interface and data design looks awesome and very structured. easy to find everything. nice work!

the only non-google-error which is kind of disillusioning:

- GA shows half of the visitors my mediatemple’s urchin stats shows
- GA shows 2/3 of the visitors AwStats shows

So who’s “lying”?
Google, MediaTemple-Urchin or AwStats?

I thought I had 800 visitors with http://www.brandinfection.com but it’s a lot less.

How have your visitor numbers developed?

I still think Measure Map can survive this big blow. IMHO Google Analytics is much to complicated for the average weblogger.

I hope that Measure Map will invent an innovative pricing structure and the possibility to consolidate various weblogs under one account. With Google Analytics you can do this, but it is not possible to do a side-by-side comparison of the basic stats of all websites that are set up for one account.

Fortunately for Measure Map, the weblog-market is a enourmous niche market (contradictio in terminis!).

Nader et al~ I’ve seen some interestingly fluctuating numbers out of Analytics so far, compared to the raw Analog logs. Likely it is handling networks and subnets differently, I might fiddle with its filters after some more data has come in to patch out those little bumps.

the milliseconds urchin.js is taking up are frustrating, but no one else seems to really be bothered too much. looking forward to some interesting statistics from this baby.

seems the general consensus is that data reports started being available something this afternoon, right? Mine late this morning.

And now I can’t get in at all.

I log in at the Analytics page and get bounced back to google.ie - thought it may be an Irish thing but, when I changed my preferences to use google.com, I just get bounced to my google.com/ig page.

Very frustrating.

I’m awesome–I spelled my name wrong before.

Anyways, people the world over are getting bounced out like that, -but- you can still get to your reports. Just use the direct link.

https://www.google.com/analytics/home/report

of course, it’s not much consolation since no one seems to have weds’ stats…

I got in also but it has only updated once and all we get is a message saying “Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now. Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours”

well at least we got one days worth of info…jeez

P.S. Techcrunch is a very informative site..keep up the good work

http://www.illmethinks.com

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Is anybody else not getting their stats yet? I signed up the first instance they let me (3 days ago) and its been “gathering stats” ever since but showing me nothing. Bloody people… all signing up at once.

I have major problems with the stats. Not only is Google gathering ever since. I get some hits listed. But in the executive overview they dropped out one day completely and I know that there have been visits.

Well, it is Google and everybody goes for it.

I don’t think that they need to grow up…They are now providing you with a service that you don’t have to pay for anymore…Basically giving you $200 a month. If you could say anything I think it would be more how much the web developers need to grow up because they rushed Google’s new release like puppies running for a dropped piece of cheese.

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what is the charting display technology here? Flash? JPEG?

great tool alex, big thanks

Google analytics is the best free tracking software, recommend to use.

We use Analytics

We do recommend using Google Analytics as it is a very robust analytics tool, and best of all its 100% free. Look for additions to the application once Microsoft releases their free analytics tool later this year.

Google has two products:
Google Analytics - free
Google Urchin Software - Paid but more secure and flexible.