Running Google Analytics

Like Dave, I finally got an invite to Google Analytics, and it’s now tracking the traffic on this site, Sunray‘s (with some advance tracking there for when bookings are made) an Bend Blogs. I haven’t quite gotten used to how their back-end works, but the stats are certainly presented in a nice, easy to use, interface that will make non geeks like it (especially more so than AWStats, which track all the sites on this server). It has lots of pretty pictures, charts, graphs, and reports catered to the Webmaster and the executive type. So for a corporate environment, and to track folks browsing through a site, it’s going to work well (which is why I immediately put it on Sunray’s site). It also has nice Web interfaces for filtering, so I can very easily turn off counting of accesses for Sunray’s office, which has the page set as their home page.

But I’ll post sometime down the road when I get more traffic into it to see what kind of reporting it really can do.