I continue my Google product reviews with the amazing Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free tool for webmasters and site admins to keep track of site traffic and trending. I have personally used this tool with this blog for about 2 years and continue to be amazed. This service is free to use and is as easy to install as copying and pasting a few lines of code into your blog template, or website code. After installation, it begins working its magic almost immediately. You can monitor as many websites as you like. The user interface for the results dashboard is great.
This is the main dashboard page when first entering:
There are several categories for viewing your traffic:
As you can see, there are tons of options to keep track of on your site. There is even a map overlay which shows who in the world has been viewing your site. If your new to site tracking tools, this one is easy to set up, and will let you get your feet wet for free.
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I know, its another Google related blog entry....but I have submitted to the glory that is the all powerful Google....This will be the first of 5 google product reviews/opinions.
I am not one to stick to one company and or website to depend on for multiple programs or tools of different functionality, but as of late Google has become my swiss army knife of internet tools. I have used, and continue to use, almost all Google tools in every day in managing this and other blogs and websites.
I am not one to stick to one company and or website to depend on for multiple programs or tools of different functionality, but as of late Google has become my swiss army knife of internet tools. I have used, and continue to use, almost all Google tools in every day in managing this and other blogs and websites.
Gmail:
I started off my Google experience with Gmail, which I have been using since it was in the invite only stage. Gmail seems to be growing in popularity and is definitely "in" with the college crowd. The things I like most about gmail are the clean look and feel the site. There are no picture based ads at all that will distract you from "just checking your email" which can invariably become a 5 minute romp through various news, fashion, video, and other links on other popular email services such as Hotmail, or Yahoo. Unless you are one that is not easily distracted I found myself going a.d.d on my previous main hotmail account. There are still text based ads in gmail, but they are much less distracting and obnauctious than the random dancing mortgage ads that haunt the hotmail inbox. Google is now starting to add more features to their email service. I guess they had complaints about gmail being TOO clean and boring, so they livened it up a bit with skinned themes. The themes range anywhere from space, ninjas, or just solid colors. Aside from the aesthetics, gmail has other powerful features such as displaying your emails in conversations.
Hotmail:
VS.
Gmail
Next week I will review my use of analytics, googles free traffic analysis tool.
