Jun 06
Google Analytics is a great little tool that anyone can incorporate into a website to help analyse incoming data. It’s free up to 5 million page views - now that would be scary - that might just break the DC server! I’ll do weekly back-ups of our database just in case.
Anyway I’ve posted below the statistics for Digital Chalkies first day page views just for interest sake, and to show the kind of information Google Analytics provides:
Thanks to the person in Dresden for dropping by - c’mon the Socceroos. And curiously 2.33% of page views were from a non-resolving URL http://www.collaboration.det.wa.edu.au. Welcome to the collaborationists!
Paul
This blog is part of a conversation on developments in our networked world. It is primarily intended for an education audience, in identifying critical technology, social and pedagogical trends, and their implications. 
June 6th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
I get lots of visits at ICTPD.NET from collaboration. Is that the DETWA server?
I find the web stats on my site fascinating. We use tools provided by the hosting company AWSTATS and WEBSTATS. Back tracking some of the links to your site can be interesting.I find islamic fundamentalists cheering at the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas and anti Islamists bemoaning it, universities linking to my free stuff for their courses. Very interesting!
Does Google offer much more detail than this sample shows?
June 6th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Yes. There is quite a bit of detail. Urchin stats too. I quite like this function:
http://www.google.com/analytics/feature_overlay.html
June 7th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Hi all
I just tried to sign up for this and it asks for an invitation code. Does anyone have one?
Kris Olson
June 7th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Kris, Google Analytics stopped new user sign-ups early on due to an over abundance of demand. Not sure if this is still the case. I waited about 3 months for my invitation code to arrive.
June 7th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
To register for an invitation code:
http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html
(hopefully already having a Gmail account helps
- I have spare Gmail invitations if needed)
June 11th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Thanks - I saw that. I thought one of you might have an invite like you can get for gmail.