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Google Analytics Description

Everyone knows it, everyone uses it, everyone has to tell you something about it. Google Analytics is another free service from Google that measures your stats for free and tells you what you are doing wrong and what you are doing great

To start getting your traffic numbers, all you have to do is sign up and get your code!

Analytics Features

There are many traffic aspects that you can analyze with Google Analytics:

1. Visitors

• Overview
• Map Overlay
• New vs. Returning
• Languages
• Visitor Trending: Visits, Absolute Unique Visitors, Pageviews, Average Pageviews, Time On Site, Bounce Rate
• Visitor Loyalty: Loyalty, Recency, Length of Visit, Depth of Visit,
• Browser Capabilities
• Network Properties
• User Defined

2. Traffic Sources

• Overview
• Direct Traffic
• Referring Sites
• Search Engines
• All Traffic Sources
• Keywords
• AdWords: AdWords Campaigns, Keyword Positions
• Campaigns
• Ad Versions

3. Content

• Overview
• Top Content
• Content by Title
• Content Drilldown
• Top Landing Pages
• Top Exit Pages
• Site Overlay

4. Goals

• Overview
• Total Conversions
• Conversion Rate
• Goal Verification
• Reverse Goal Path
• Goal Value
• Abandoned Funnels
• Funnel Visualization

Screenshots

And the traffic stats on dashboard look like this: (yes, the week ends are the worst for software field :) )

Here's how the menu looks:

See Also

• More about website analytics: which are the most popular tools, free and commercial, and how to choose
• List with Website Analytics tools with user reviews