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Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

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Re: Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

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Post by ck2 »

What's interesting is if Google can offer this to webmasters, then somewhere inside Google they can tell about 90% of how many people are online in the internet and where they are.

Obviously not an exaggeration, it's just a mapreduce query of all that data from every service they own.

I don't have a single google service on my sites but I must be a super-tiny minority.

Re: Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

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Post by Zakuzaa »

ck2 wrote: post #3

What's interesting is if Google can offer this to webmasters, then somewhere inside Google they can tell about 90% of how many people are online in the internet and where they are. Obviously not an exaggeration, it's just a mapreduce query of all that data from every service they own. I don't have a single google service on my sites but I must be a super-tiny minority.

I don't think more than 10% of all sites have analytics installed.

But if you include other services and products like toolbar and adsense, Google can surely see a great deal of what's happening on the Internet.

Re: Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

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Post by slig »

Zakuzaa wrote: post #5
ck2 wrote: post #3

What's interesting is if Google can offer this to webmasters, then somewhere inside Google they can tell about 90% of how many people are online in the internet and where they are. Obviously not an exaggeration, it's just a mapreduce query of all that data from every service they own. I don't have a single google service on my sites but I must be a super-tiny minority.

I don't think more than 10% of all sites have analytics installed. But if you include other services and products like toolbar and adsense, Google can surely see a great deal of what's happening on the Internet.

It seems to be a lot more than that http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/google-is-top-track...

Re: Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

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Post by cooperadymas »

ck2 wrote: post #3

What's interesting is if Google can offer this to webmasters, then somewhere inside Google they can tell about 90% of how many people are online in the internet and where they are. Obviously not an exaggeration, it's just a mapreduce query of all that data from every service they own. I don't have a single google service on my sites but I must be a super-tiny minority.

Blekko's new Grep tool shows that 1.3 Billion URLs on 12.4 million domains are using Google Analytics. http://blekko.com/webgrep?page=view&id=f6c212b83629fe094...

Not sure how big their index is right now, or how that compares to the entire web, but it is a big number regardless.

Edit: On their announcement of the Grep functionality, Blekko says they are running it against 4 billion pages. This is still only a portion of the web, but that puts it around 1 in 4 pages having Google Analytics installed.

Re: Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

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Post by dangrossman »

andrewtbham wrote: post #2

I wonder if people at startups like ChartBeat, mix panel, clicky feel like the market is validated or feel worried. Or just keep focusing on doing a better job than competitors.

I've been running W3Counter, a competing web stats service, since before Google Analytics. Before Google bought Urchin, that kind of web stats reporting was something businesses paid for. When Google released Analytics for free, I'm sure more than a few businesses were wiped out. Perception of the space changed forever and now I can't count on 1% of my users to pay for web stats, even for things GA doesn't provide.

Real-time dashboards were one of the features people were willing to pay for. Now Google does that for free as well. There's not much I can do about it. I'm sure Chartbeat and such will still find customers, but I'm sure many that may have been convinced to buy will now settle for Google's free option instead.

I don't think MixPanel's worried about it. They're not solving the same problems as Google Analytics and GA will never be a substitute for that kind of service.

Re: Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

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Post by benologist »

Zakuzaa wrote: post #5
ck2 wrote: post #3

What's interesting is if Google can offer this to webmasters, then somewhere inside Google they can tell about 90% of how many people are online in the internet and where they are. Obviously not an exaggeration, it's just a mapreduce query of all that data from every service they own. I don't have a single google service on my sites but I must be a super-tiny minority.

I don't think more than 10% of all sites have analytics installed. But if you include other services and products like toolbar and adsense, Google can surely see a great deal of what's happening on the Internet.

If you browse with Ghostery installed it seems like Google Adsense has massive penetration. Or it might be the sites I browse.
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