Google Analytics

Earlier this week I was invited to use the Google Analytics service that Google offers for companies and people to use to evaluate their websites traffic. I waited about a month or so before being invited and I am glad I held out and did not succumb to using webalizer or some other free package.

The detail the analytics service offers is just awesome! It has given me a great scope on the traffic patterns of the Ubuntu forums in the past 4 days.

Here are a few examples from the forums in the last four days (well three really)

#--------------------------------------------------------
# Visits and Pageviews
#--------------------------------------------------------
Date Range	Visits	Pageviews
Fri 6/2		0	0
Sat 6/3		0	0
Sun 6/4		0	0
Mon 6/5		2940	15010
Tue 6/6		78153	445989
Wed 6/7		82436	430813
Thu 6/8		95441	459792

#--------------------------------------------------------
# Visits by New and Returning
#--------------------------------------------------------
Visitor Types		Visits
New Visitor		147076
Returning Visitor	111894

#--------------------------------------------------------
# Visits by Source
#--------------------------------------------------------
Sources			Visits
google			92167
(direct)		84135
digg.com		31317
ubuntu.com		21772
ubuntuforums.org	2095

Pretty good data I can't wait to see how the traffic patterns flow for a complete month..