I swear Google is stealing my ideas. I had a frustrating experience with the industry standard webstats package, Urchin, last night, and complained to a couple people about it.
This morning, I awake to a new Google product, Google Analytics, which is the result of Google purchasing Urchin a while back. On the Analytics home page is a bulleted list detailing Google’s solution to every one of my gripes with Urchin. Fishy, eh? :)
However, a stats package can’t really be evaluated until it has data in it. Here’s how it looks right now:
Pretty impressive! I especially like the “Executive Overview” idea, as well as the Geo Map! Check back soon, I’ll post an updated screenshot with some real numbers.