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"How fast is the web?" is a question many try to answer, but few are in the position to do so. Google, via its Analytics service, has direct access to a huge number of websites in the world, that aggregated data would paint a very accurate picture of the speed of the web worldwide.Of course, Google doesn't reall... |
19 April 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Some months ago, when the new Google Analytics was still fresh, Google revealed that two features that a lot of people were asking for were coming back, scheduled emails and PDF exports. That was back in November, but Google is only now ready to unveil the new features and only in beta form. "We are excited to annou... |
3 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Google Analytics may not be the most famous or the most glamorous Google product, but it's one of the most useful and one of the things the web depends on to work. This explains perhaps the attention Google pays to it - it's been rolling out a new interface for more than a year now and, just as things were ... |
2 March 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Google Analytics is undergoing a massive revamp. The new Analytics has been in the works for about a year now, more if you count internal development and testing. It's been available to all users for quite a while now and Google has been adding more features, such as flow visualizations in the meantime.
But the... |
9 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Google has made a change to the way Webmaster Tools reports search engine rankings. Specifically, Google will now take into account the highest ranking link to your site rather than the average position of all your links.
What this means is that, for any given query, only the top result will be taken into account wh... |
26 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google is finally getting serious about social. And, for once in the last six months, it's not about Google+. Google is announcing that it plans to launch much better social integration tools for Google Analytics, enabling websites to know more not only about their visitors, but also about people engaging with t... |
8 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Google is now making it easier for website owners to monitor their website's performance. A few months ago, it started enabling Google Analytics users to add tracking code that would test to see how fast a page would load.Now, website owners no loger need to additional code, all Analytics users get the Site Spee... |
19 November 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Not that mobile advertising is in need of any confirmation at this point, but Google has now started adding mobile stats for AdWords reports in the new Analytics. "Starting this week, some of you will see enhanced Analytics reports with mobile ad performance metrics. All AdWords reports in the new interface will be g... |
11 November 2011
20:41 GMT |
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Google has announced that it's bringing back two of the most requested features, missing from the new Analytics interface, email scheduling and PDF export. These were the two biggest things from the old Analytics that people wanted to have in the updated version. It took a while, but Google is doing it, although... |
2 November 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Google has debuted a simple but interesting new feature for Google Analytics. It is now possible to track non-interactive events, i.e. events that don't require any action from the visitors, but which still involve their attention.Tracking for these events to ensure that the bounce rate for your site is not nega... |
27 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Google Analytics is about to get a lot more visual. The team has been working on ways of enabling webmasters to follow their visitors' path through their sites in a way that provides ample information, but doesn't overwhelm them.
Google has come up with the Flow Visualization concept. Flow Visualizations... |
20 October 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Google is now rolling out the Webmaster Tools integration feature for Analytics to everyone. It initially launched it for a few users to get feedback and find what works and what doesn't.Now, after a few tweaks and changes, Google is ready to make the feature available to all users, adding an interesting new dat... |
5 October 2011
11:17 GMT |
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Google has made a habit of giving products away, mostly to make up its loses from advertising though not always so. Google Analytics for example is used by countless websites, big and small, yet it's been free for all and there are no ads. Until now, Google is debuting Google Analytics Premium, a paid version, f... |
30 September 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Google is finally introducing something that probably should have been available a long time ago, real-time data for Analytics. At long last, webmasters can check out how many people are visiting their site or any page at any given time.
Real-time Analytics also enable webmasters to run more complex campaigns and ... |
30 September 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Google has settled its dispute with German data privacy regulators concerning Analytics. The privacy watchdogs were worried that Analytics tracked user activity without explicit consent or even notification.
German data privacy regulator Johannes Caspar announced that Google has agreed to some of the conditions an... |
15 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Google is making a slight change to what counts as a session for visits measured by Google Analytics. The change is small, but will affect some visits and will most likely alter the data reported for most websites."Beginning today, there will be a small change in how sessions are calculated in Google Analytics. We th... |
13 August 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Now that the Google +1 button makes more sense, with the launch of Google+, the company is also launching a couple of tools to enable webmasters to see how and if the +1 button has an impact on the traffic of their sites.
But Google is taking it one step further by introducing a new Analytics tool which shows eng... |
30 June 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Sophos customers experienced bogus malware warnings for content served from google-analytics.com yesterday, as a result of a bad definition issued by the security vendor.The company managed to rectify the issue within one hour since the false alarms started popping up, however, it might have taken more time until the... |
11 June 2011
02:08 GMT |
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Google is debuting a feature that should make webmasters and SEOs quite happy, integration between Google's Webmaster Tools and Analytics. It's starting with a pilot program before the feature goes live later this month. Users will see a new report set in Google Analytics with data from Webmaster Tools."We&... |
8 June 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Google has always been obsessed with speed, for good reason, and has tried to spread its gospel and get web developers to optimize and speed up their sites. The latest such foray is the addition of a performance measuring tool to Google Analytics. It's a very interesting approach, Analytics is already used by mi... |
5 May 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Google is announcing that the revamped Analytics dashboard is now available to all users and in all languages supported by Analytics. The new Dashboard was launched last month and it has now became available to all users. However, it is not enabled by default and users are able to test it and switch back to the old i... |
21 April 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Last week Google debuted a new version of its popular metrics tool Analytics. It's still in testing with a selected few, but Google has started introducing some of the main improvements. One of the biggest and the first thing any user is going to see is the new Dashboard.It's modeled after the recently intr... |
25 March 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Google is introducing a big revamp to its Analytics tool, mostly focused on the interface. It's still in a small beta, but the update promises to bring some of the features that most people have been asking as well as a better layout and organization of data."Today at the Google Analytics User Conference in San ... |
18 March 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Google and German data protection authorities rarely see eye to eye and Google has been under the spotlight in the country for several of its products. Street View has made the most waves, but Google Analytics has been criticized as well. Now, Hamburg's data protection commissioner Johannes Caspar, who's no... |
13 January 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Google Analytics Intelligence is getting a couple of new features. In the Custom Alerts report, the likely sources of a traffic change are now listed. Users now also have the option to be notified via SMS, in the US, or multiple emails when a Custom Alert is triggered.In order to make Custom Alert reports more inform... |
4 November 2010
12:39 GMT |
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Google Analytics is introducing a new tool for those who's idea of a fun afternoon does not involve weeding through pages upon pages of numbers, graphs and obscure terminology. The new In-Page Analytics feature provides a simple and intuitive way of analyzing your site's traffic. "Today, we’re happy ... |
16 October 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Google has announced that it fixed an issue affecting Google Chrome and Analytics, ironically both Google products. A bug in Chrome introduced a couple of weeks ago resulted in incorrect measurements for websites using analytics. The latest Chrome stable update fixes the problem."Chrome version 6.0.472.55 was an incr... |
27 September 2010
08:35 GMT |
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Very recently, Google launched a global dashboard to indicate whether any of its services are being disrupted or are experiencing problems in certain regions or worldwide. Now it has done the same for Google Analytics, the free web traffic measurement tool it provides. "Google Analytics processes huge volumes of data... |
27 September 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Google has just introduced a new way of verifying the ownership a domain in Google Webmaster Tools. Now, if you have Google Analytics code already installed on your site, you can use that to verify the website eliminating the need to add other code or files to the site. "If you want to use Google Analytics, you need ... |
20 August 2010
10:47 GMT |
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A new mass injection tries pass the rogue code added to compromised websites as the Google Analytics script. The attack is actually part of a malicious campaign to distribute a new piece of scareware that has a very low detection rate.The compromises are likely the result of SQL injection vulnerabilities in mostly AS... |
9 August 2010
13:08 GMT |
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You may have heard about Reddit’s financial troubles of late. The social news aggregator has been having trouble keeping up with traffic and sent out a plea to its users for help. The move worked, to a degree, but it hasn’t solved the cause of its problems. So Reddit is now trying to set the record straig... |
16 July 2010
10:52 GMT |
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As any self-respecting blogger will tell you, visitor stats are a big part of the thrill of publishing online. Even the most blasé bloggers can’t stop checking in on the stats at least once in a while, which would explain the prevalence of traffic tracking tools catering specifically to bloggers. And... |
2 July 2010
06:55 GMT |
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Online privacy issues are a big deal these days and a couple of the biggest web companies online, Google and Facebook, have been feeling the heat lately. Both are taking steps in ensuring that they meet the users’ demands. Google is now offering a way to opt out of analytics tracking with Google Analytics on an... |
26 May 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Google has been battling privacy concerns on several accounts and things are only becoming harder as the company grows and enters new markets. Google offers some decent options for protecting your data from being gathered by the company and one method would be to avoid all Google products if you want to make sure you... |
19 March 2010
08:03 GMT |
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Google Analytics has evolved over the years to become a very powerful tool if used to the full extent of its capabilities. The free tool allows webmasters to get detailed information on the visitors to their websites and how they engage with the content. One of the strengths of the product is the possibility to cust... |
8 December 2009
06:19 GMT |
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Either Germans care a whole lot about their privacy or they really have it in for Google. Most likely it's the first, but it doesn't discount from the fact that Google is getting in trouble again in the country, after the whole Street View affair, this time for Google Analytics. Several government official... |
24 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Google is making some people very happy, as it has finally introduced some sort of integration between FeedBurner and Google Analytics. Considering that the vast majority of users have been more than disappointed by the way Google has handled the feed-management service since it acquired it in 2007, this comes as a s... |
14 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Google is continually updating its products through small updates and features but, in order to perfect those features and decide which ones to launch, the company uses a lot of testing. Virtually all of its updates are tested with a small subset of users, sometime several variations of a feature at a time, in order ... |
21 October 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Google Analytics, the free stats tool from Google, has gotten a major upgrade with a bunch of new features and some updated ones. The most touted feature is the so-called Analytics Intelligence, which will notify the users of the changes it deems important based on an algorithm that determines their significance. Oth... |
21 October 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Being the most complete traffic statistics service around, Google Analytics has found its way inside many good or bad services on the web. PhotoShelter, a complete website for photographers to buy, sell, showcase, host, archive, etc. images, has announced a new toolkit based on a Google Analytics implementation. Reco... |
11 September 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Microsoft has discontinued adCenter Analytics beta as of March 12, 2009. However, the discontinuation of the the adCenter Analytics beta program is only the proverbial “beginning of the end” for Gatineau, which will be completely killed off by the end of 2009. The software giant only announced that it was... |
13 March 2009
12:03 GMT |
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Project codenamed Gatineau is a new web analytics solution from Microsoft. The Redmond company has moved the project announced as early as January 2007 into the first beta stage and is now sending out testing invitations. Gatineau comes to fill a gap in Microsoft's suite of tools. Built under adCenter, Microsoft... |
30 October 2007
04:44 GMT |
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