I was really excited when I saw Google were offering free website stats (and about time too), but like yourself I was pretty dissapointed at the strength of the product upon actually logging on.
I’ve got my stats now (and they’re back dated to when I signed up on Monday), but I would have like things to be a little more, you know, instant. This is the information age we’re living in. Almost everything is instantly available to us. It’s just odd that Google, who are usually pioneering the technologies that truly define ‘the information age’, completely ballsed this one up.
I love what Google do and are doing, but like I would be with anyone else I’m not going to be polite to them if they mess up.
I have very serious reservations about both the privacy relating to GA and about the quality of service offerred. It took me 48 hours to get my first stats and once I reviewed them they were not all that different to what I can get elsewhere.
What concerns me most is how Google will use the stats to classify (read: downgrade/upgrade) sites that use adsense, and how it will impact PR’s.
November 16th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
I was really excited when I saw Google were offering free website stats (and about time too), but like yourself I was pretty dissapointed at the strength of the product upon actually logging on.
I’ve got my stats now (and they’re back dated to when I signed up on Monday), but I would have like things to be a little more, you know, instant. This is the information age we’re living in. Almost everything is instantly available to us. It’s just odd that Google, who are usually pioneering the technologies that truly define ‘the information age’, completely ballsed this one up.
I love what Google do and are doing, but like I would be with anyone else I’m not going to be polite to them if they mess up.
November 18th, 2005 at 5:23 pm
I have very serious reservations about both the privacy relating to GA and about the quality of service offerred. It took me 48 hours to get my first stats and once I reviewed them they were not all that different to what I can get elsewhere.
What concerns me most is how Google will use the stats to classify (read: downgrade/upgrade) sites that use adsense, and how it will impact PR’s.
I have removed the code from my sites.