Google Analytics will let Web site owners see exactly where visitors to their site are coming from, what links on the site are getting the most traffic, what pages visitors are viewing, how long people stay on the site, which products on merchant sites are being sold and where people give up in multistep checkout processes, said Paul Muret, an engineering director at Google and one of the founders of Urchin.
SiteMeter and StatCounter can’t possibly be happy about this – nor can the perenial favorite Web Trends (which has always sucked in my book). What was once a $199/mo service ($495 before Google’s acquisition of Urchin) is now free! This will certainly shake the stats world a bit… I am looking forward to adding it to my own site to see how it works.
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