Google may have underestimated “Google Analytics”
At the end of Matt Cutts post about Google Analytics yesterday morning he mentions that the only downside of Google Analytics is the 6-12 hour waiting period to be able to start running reports.
I think that Google may have underestimated the popularity of Google Analytics when they announced it was free yesterday. First of all, it took me several hours to actually be able to sign up - no big deal. I’m sure they have a ton of other customers they have to take care of first. But now it has been almost 30 hours and I still can’t run a report.
Don’t get me wrong - I’m not complaining. I think it’s awesome that Google made this move and opened up the software. I do wonder, however, how real-time the stats are going to be when they start working. One thing that I really like about StatCounter (even the free version) is that all of your reporting is real-time. Like literally real-time. Setup an account, plug the code in, hit your webpage, login to your account and you will see the hit. (Side-note: you can filter out hits from your own IP address or place a cookie on your computer that will keep your traffic from skewing your results in the future)
I’m excited to see what Google Analytics is capable of, but for now I think I’m going to leave both Google Analytics and StatCounter installed on my sites. I guess I’m a data junky.
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