Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Google Analytics Sucks!


Before I go on, I must say that I use Analytics every day, and it is by far the best tool I have found for monitoring site traffic.

The problem, though, is it does not let you get down to the nitty gritty details about a specific user. For example you could not find out what user, from what region, from what referring site, hit what content. You can find out all this information about groups of users, but not at the same time. I am guessing for privacy reasons (same reason you cannot obtain the IP). This becomes limiting quickly for me.



Maybe all this information is mute once you have hits in the thoasands per day, but when you are getting an average of one signup per day the individual user details are still very interesting and useful.

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