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Also the reason why you sometimes see utm_campaign=... (and other utm_*) appearing in URL query strings. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en
For a while the JS that Google handed off to you was "urchin.js"
That was a great read! I've been doing this long enough that I still complain about how much I hate GA compared to the old Urchin. I used Urchin for years and loved it. I was all excited to see what it had become as it changed to GA, and it was just... blah. It went from this super incredibly powerful tool that gave me access to all sorts of stats I needed, to this... I dunno... seemingly random assortment of things…
Urchin 4 continued our tradition of supporting way, way too many random platforms (Google still has Urchin 4 help: check out the OS support… ever heard of Yellow Dog Linux?). Heck yeah! Yellow Dog was one of first GNU/Linux distro I attempted to use, back in 2k2 (Or was it SUSE 6.4? Both ran too sluggishly for desktop use on my 5400/120, tho.) Here's the trial Urchin 5 for RedHat 6, btw. https://web.archive.org/web/2…
We support three distros now (the obvious three), and politely encourage users of other distros who really don't want to use one of the big three to fork it and add support themselves (with our blessing and encouragement).
It's also nice to see a story with a realistic timeline; most acquisitions happen something like 7-10 years out. Overnight successes are extraordinarily rare, but get a lot of attention, because they make it seem easy, and people like to think that if they have a good idea, they can get rich overnight.
And, I enjoy that the company was always small enough to where everyone knew each other, even at the end, even though they had a gazillion installs.
Urchin 4 continued our tradition of supporting way, way too many random platforms (Google still has Urchin 4 help: check out the OS support… ever heard of Yellow Dog Linux?). Heck yeah! Yellow Dog was one of first GNU/Linux distro I attempted to use, back in 2k2 (Or was it SUSE 6.4? Both ran too sluggishly for desktop use on my 5400/120, tho.) Here's the trial Urchin 5 for RedHat 6, btw. https://web.archive.org/web/2…
While many web users don’t know that utm in a URL stands for Urchin Traffic Monitor , there are also Red Hat users who don’t realise that yum stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified
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They live on in a small tool they built... The Yellowdog Updater, Modified. Now just known as yum.
Now superceded by dnf on Fedora, sadly.
Have they fixed the referer spam problem yet?
Caveat: the filter did not apply retroactively to my data and only started working from the date of its inception.
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Now superceded by dnf on Fedora, sadly.
Does anyone prefer the name dnf? I will likely never agree that it should have been renamed to dnf, even though it represents a significant amount of rewriting. yum is an incomparably better name. "dnf" is even worse than "apt".
> But the real killer feature IMHO, which was released in Urchin 6, was individual visitor history drill-down. If this sounds potentially, um, sensitive, that’s because it is. Google wouldn’t touch this feature and it was summarily axed, never to return. Any word on what this feature was? And do others currently offer an equivalent?
It might take the form of a time stamped list of event data, page view data and categorized referred data.