zaterdag, september 08, 2007
Google Analytics
I signed up for the free Google Analytics service. It helps you to track all kind of site statistics such as how many hits you have, what pages are the most visited, where users come from, how they found your site and the browsers they use, etc. How it works is pretty simple. Sign up for a free account and paste a small script in the HTML code of all your pages just before the closing /body HTML tag. That's it. The goal of Google Analytics is to optimise web sites for advertisement revenue, but it provides very useful insights for any webmaster.I've included the script on the master page of my asp.net application so it is automatically present on all pages of the site. It takes 24 hours to get the first reports so I can't tell you yet how the reports look like, but judging from the free tour they seem powerful yet simple. There is also a Google Analytics blog available.
