Google Site Statistics
Google has just agreed to acquire Urchin, a web site analytics solution company. My hosting company, ServerIntellect, actually promotes Urchin as one of its features. It looks like Google is bringing a new set of free tools to the world. Any guesses as to what they’ll release on April 1st?
Either way, if you get a chance I definitely recommend Urchin, as it’s a well designed and very powerful site statistics package. If you’re looking for a free alternative, check out AWStats.
[...] When discussing Google’s purchase of Urchin, I highly recommended Urchin because of it’s easy to use feature set and amazing set of reports that were accessible via Urchin. Late last week, Google relaunched the Urchin service, as Google Analytics, dropping the price to $0 and requiring a Google Account to setup a site and use the service. [...]