Re: [tlug] [OT] Scraping Google Analytics for top ten pages on a site

[Kyle Hasegawa <kylehase@example.com>]

On 01/19/2010 04:26 PM, Christian Horn wrote:
> Whats the bonus of using google analytics?
> As i understand it its embedding links to google in your pages to do
> measuring?
>
> I just see increased traffic and increased times for the page to be
> loaded in the users browser.  Shouldnt all questions google analy-
> tics can answer also be gatherable from local webservers accesslogs?
>
>    

Christian,

Besides all the reasons people have already posted on this thread, I 
heard another good reason on This Week in Tech.  It's more convincing to 
show stats from a third party than stats you've gathered from your own 
logs should you ever need to present them to an advertiser or investor.

Kyle