Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

Some of you might remember a while back when I signed up for Google Analytics. Yeah, it was 4 months ago, I signed up a day or two after analytics went live and was a day or two late! They put me on a wait list as they ironed out the bugs from the software they recently purchased from Urchin, a great site stat provided.

There main issue was said to be that too many people signed up too fast and had too many visitors for their servers. In other words, the biggest search engine on the planet didn’t have enough server power to handle the loads of traffic from it’s new product. Whatever it was, I was too late and needed a solution. This prompted me to search out some alternative stat counters which I listed here. I ended up using addfreestats and sitemeter, both of which work well and offer different things.

Well, this past week as I have been working on getting my blog network up and running I received the invitation to join Google analytics. I quickly signed up and installed it on this site. I have only been using it for a day or two but see some things I like and things I don’t like. One good thing right off the bat that I noticed was that they allow you to track multiple sites, up to 5 for me now, which I heard wasn’t the case. That was a nice surprise and I hope there will be more to come.

I am going to continue to use the stat service and come back here with a review of what I think of it. It seems like it will off quite a bit of site optimization stats which will help if I end up sticking with the service for my network but all the services seem like they will take a bit of time and searching to figure out how to best use them.

For those of you who might have recently signed up for the wait list, it took me 5 months. Hopefully they’ve lowered the wait time for you.

I’ll keep you all posted.