NuConomy Studio — Promises “Insights you never imagined. Go beyond the old Page View model and start to measure engagement. Understand your users’ activities and how they interact with the various features of your site like never before.”

Woopra — Promises real-time reporting. “Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analytics tool that works perfectly on any website. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites.”

Visit TechCrunch for more details on each company.

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If setup and interpreted correctly, a Web Analytics application can help you better define your audiences, validate assumptions, help you audit campaigns and justify future media investments. Web Analytics can be a valuable resource in your marketing toolbox.

In this episode:
- Learn about the tradeoffs with paid versus free solutions.

- How to setup and test Web Analytics.

- Examples of what information to look at and how to use it for decision making.

- How to define visitor goals and evaluate abandonment with funnel tracking.

- Example of how to audit an online media campaign using Web Analytics.

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“Use this tracking code to gain access to a wide range of exciting new features as they become available.”

Unfortunately, Google does not mention what the upcoming features would be.

So I proceeded to add the new tracking codes to the new Websites and updated the code on existing Websites. Next day, I noticed that the two new Websites I set up had an error message in the Google Analytics status panel: “Tracking code not detected.”

I methodically attempted to debug. I checked for errors, re-pasted the code, moved the code to different positions within the and tags, and created new tracking codes — yet nothing seemed to work.

Finally, I figured it out. I simply didn’t follow the illustrated example for entering the URL. I entered the domains without the preceeding “www.” Once I corrected that, the status indicated that “Tracking code installed.”

Screenshots for your reference:

• Illustration #1 — Status: “Tracking code not detected.”
• Illustration #2 — New tracking code format
• Illustration #3 — Website profile mistake
• Illustration #4 — Website profile corrected
• Illustration #5 — Confirmation that tracking code was successfully installed
• Illustration #6 — Status: “Tracking code installed”

Lesson learned. As tempting as it is to abandon the preceding “www.” there might always be an application or server configuration that requires it.

Hope you find this useful. Please let me know if it helped you solve the same problem.
-Roland

Update 12/28/2007: Be sure to read the Google Analytics Migration Guide

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If you haven’t used it before, Google Analytics is an amazing, free Web analytics application. Originally developed as Urchin and acquired by Google in the fall of 2005, Google Analytics is a full feature Web analytics application.

Hello from Google Analytics,

We are happy to announce the release of a new version of the
Google Analytics reporting interface. Since you are an existing
user, you will automatically be upgraded – there is no action
required on your part. To access this new version click the “View
Reports” link next to any profile in your account by logging in at

http://www.google.com/analytics.

For a smooth transition, we’ve listed some helpful resources and
notes below. Also, you will still be able to access your old
reporting interface for at least a month by clicking “Previous
Interface” below the “View Reports” link for any profile in your
account. Other than a few improvements detailed in the version
notes below, your data and configuration settings remain
unaffected by your choice of interface and your data continues to
be tracked in the same way as it was prior to this redesign.

*What is new?* In the new version, your reports have been
redesigned for clarity, greater visibility of important metrics,
and ease of use. Here are just a few of the features you’ll
notice:

- Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc
personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format.

- Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all
the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can
email to others.

- Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select
date ranges without losing sight of long term trends.

- Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion
University tips are available from every report.

The new interface has everything the previous interface had and
more. In addition, links within reports make it easier to navigate
related information and explore your data.

The following resources are available to help you get the most
from the new Google Analytics interface:

- Report Finder Tool: will help you see where data from the
previous interface is located within the new version (it is
also linked to from within your reports on the left
navigation menu):

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/static.py?page=v1v2map.cs

- Product tour:

http://services.google.com/analytics/tour/index_en-US.html

- FAQs for more details about the new version:

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/static.py?page=FAQ.cs

- Help Center: includes articles related to the new version:

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/

- Support: if you encounter any issues with the new version
that you can’t resolve with the help center, you can contact
our support team through the Contact Us link at the bottom of
the help center web page, or receive higher-touch support
through a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant. Find one
here:

http://www.google.com/analytics/support_partner_provided.html

- Analytics Help Forum: If you would like to discuss the new
version or get tips from experienced users, please visit the
Analytics Help Forum in English within Google Groups at:

http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help

A few notes about the new version:

- The new version works best with Flash 7 or higher. Most
browsers have this installed already, if yours does not,
please download it at Adobe.com .

- Google Analytics now uses the same geo-data source as
AdWords, therefore, map and geo-location report results may
vary slightly between the previous interface and the new
interface. For those of you with filters designed for
geo-data, you may want to verify the results and edit if
necessary.

- Limiting the Available Reports for a profile by specifying
which Report Dashboards and Report Categories are available
has been removed from the product in favor of the new
customizable Google Analytics dashboard. If you would like to
limit the availability of data within a certain profile for
certain users, we recommend removing those users from the
profile and instead scheduling an email to deliver data to
them.

We hope you find the new version even more useful and thank you
for using Google Analytics!

I only spent five minutes digging around and I am extremely excited. There was a lot of reorganization to put more data points on a single screen — extremely helpful to reduce the amount of clicking to gather a complete picture of certain metrics.

It also “feels” like the data loads much faster than before. I’m blazing through these screens.

The feature I don’t see yet is the ability to add comments on certain dates/milestones. That would be helpful to identify historical events tied to traffic spikes.

Definitely check out Google Analytics if you haven’t done so already.
-Roland

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