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Introduction to Google Analytics

By: Mark Dijkstra    In: Stats Tips and tricks

Google Analytics is a free service to track all sorts of information about the visitors to your website. I recently had a weird experience with the Analytics on CSS-Tricks, so I thought it would be a good time to introduce it to folks who might not already know much about it and also share that experience.

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As with most things, it has its ups and downs, so I introduce an alternative product at the end as well.

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Written by: Mark Dijkstra

Mark Dijkstra is the founder and main writer of OpenSourceHunter. He's also a passionate freelance web developer and designer. Mark is one of those people that spend too much time on the internet to keep up with all of the trends and tools.
You can follow Mark on twitter @ MarkDijkstra

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1 Comment

Keith

January 1, 2009

Thanks for the great intro into Google Analyitcs. While I don’t get much traffic I love looking at and analyzing my stats. I never knew about the host name thing either.

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