Re:Yahoo Launches Web Analytics
by FiReaNG3L on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @06:30PM
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Real time? I might ditch Google Analytics and Statcounter (using both, mainly because statcounter is near real time, you just have to know when you're linked by Slashdot or Digg!)
for Yahoo if it works great. Will give it a try for sure!
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Re:Yahoo Launches Web Analytics
by DennisMortensen on Thursday October 09, 2008 @01:13PM
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Hey there..
>>Real time? - Great for Yahoo if it works.
It actually works very well, and we had a 7 second latency only - in the days of IndexTools. And the reason for only using the ‘up to the minute’ in Yahoo! marketing material, was to make sure we under promised and over delivered :-)
Cheers d.
Dennis R. Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo! Blog: http://visualrevenue.com/blog Book: http://visualrevenue.com/blog/yahoo-analytics-book
That was the biggest selling point for me as well. Up to the minute results is huge when it comes to things like running blog promotions or campaigns.
True for me too. I like GA but the delayed results can be really frustrating.
For as often as my co-founder and I check GA for our medium-traffic site, I'm a little concerned for our productivity if we can see analytics in real-time!
That's actually a good point. I wonder if there will be a way to maybe get alerts with YA. Maybe even write a small desktop application that gives you an at a glance look at what's going on.
If that happens, GA will be sunk.
Any reason you don't use Mint (haveamint.com)?
It can easily kill your server. The last thing you want to do while having high traffic is kill your stats. You can think ahead and cache your pages, but you can't cache your self-hosted real time stats.
Not free :)
My hope is that this pushes Google to provide real-time stats too. That way I don't have to do that migration thang :)