It’s weird to see traffic from a site that no longer exists in your web analytics reports, but that actually is the sign of a good analytics package and a good site. This happens because the users who were referred by the site keep coming back and the original referrer keeps getting the credit for the traffic.

As I found this morning, Google Analytics has been down for about two days. More precisely the data for the past two days is missing - the interface is working pretty normally otherwise. Other people are reporting all sorts of weird problems over the past few weeks (and particularly now) - everything from all their [...]

Microsoft has announced its web analytics package - Gatineau. But the question is whether they will be as good as Google and the paid services at protecting the privacy of the data.

Google Analytics appears to be down - for nearly two days now. All sorts of different sites show the same pattern - no data since 2 or 3am on the 29th.

Nielsen//NetRatings is a well-established authority on web site rankings. However, their data and the results derived from it, are questionable at times. The bottom line is that you should not use NetRatings if you’re a B2B company.