As well as the new tracker, Google have made a small but welcome change to the Analytics dashboard. Now, we can get easy visual comparisons of the following metrics:

Visits
Pageviews
Pages/ Visit
Average Time on Site
Bounce Rate
Percentage New Visits

Any two metrics can be viewed on the one graph, or a single metric can be viewed over two time […]

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This morning I saw that the tracker code for Google Analytics had been updated to a new file, ga.js. The old file (urchin.js) is still available and Google says it will continue to function for at least another year.
The new tracker replicates all the functionality that was available in urchin.js but adds some much-needed consistency […]

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As you can now see, the new site is (more or less) operational. All prior posts have been moved over, but there’s still a good deal of static content to be uploaded. The masthead graphics should be ready later this morning, and they will go up with a random display script to select any one […]

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Here’s a totally off-topic post, but this little problem took some chasing down & now that it’s fixed I want to crow a bit about my technical excellence (not).
It should be fairly obvious this blog is a work in progress. Next week I’ll have real masthead images up, and copy it over to its real […]

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Back in April I wrote a post that attempted to put a number of the global number of searches every day. It was as rough as guts and any decent researcher would shoot holes in my methodology… but it continues to be the single most popular post on this blog, so I thought it was […]

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At the very excellent Search Engine Boot Camp in Sydney last week, Michael Walmsley from Hitwise provided some insight into the relative market shares of the major search engines. My main source of information up to now has been to assume the US figures from Nielsen Online somehow extrapolate to this side of the planet, […]

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