I’ve been flying blind with this blog, so to speak, for more than a month – and it’s really bugging me.
I’m talking about useful web stats. I used to have Urchin (now Google Analytics) at my old web host, and that was great …but I had to leave that host.
I’m now at Westhost, which is good in many ways. However, their site stat packages are so limited as to be useless to me.
Today I checked back in with Google Analytics, and saw that they’re finally allowing some new users – by invitation only (just like when they launched Gmail).
If any kind, generous Contentious reader has received a Google Analytics invitation that you don’t need to use, I’d greatly appreciate it if you’d send me your valid invitation code. As a reward, I have a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate I’d be happy to give you.
Simply e-mail me and we’ll make arrangements.
I really, really want this. I don’t want to have to change hosts again, but the lack of useful stats is becoming a serious issue for me. Suggestions of alternate options are welcome, of course. Thanks!
Amy,
Sorry, but I’ve looked all over my Analytics account and I don’t see any area where I can ‘invite’ someone…??? I think Google is handling this themselves at this point…or I’m just not lucky enough to get them, but I’ve been signed on to analytics since the first week or so…
As near as I can tell after looking at my account, Google is issuing the invitations to those who directly contact them for it.
Although it’s not Urchin, we’ve been using http://www.statcounter.com. It’s free, fairly comprehensive, and very easy to install. I think it’s the current leader of the pack for freebies based on this listing..
http://tinyurl.com/8r5yu
Here’s your full list
http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://www.sitemeter.com
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
http://www.webtrends.com
http://mach5.com/products/analyzer/index.php
http://www.tracewatch.com/
http://www.addfreestats.com/
http://bbclone.de/
http://www.trafficfile.com/
http://www.haveamint.com/
http://www.summary.net/
http://www.reinvigorate.net/
I’m hiding my first borne because of your posting terms, lol.
Looks like you will have to start here and hope for the best.
http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html
I too looked for an invite option, but agree it is the GOOG sending them out.
Amy, I’ve used http://www.statcounter.com/ for years, highly rate it. However I am blown away by NeOh’s list. Wow!. Regards Paul
i also need invittaion of Google anylatics
if any 1 has plz doe mail me
thanks in adance
Yes, the ivitation code is on an user-id basis, like MS Connect, i dont think one can share them
The invitation google had talked about are not users invitation, but actually their own invitation, that once in a while they send to the users that filled the invitation form that they’ve posted in their site.
Last time they’ve sent invitation to users was January 19th.
I use sitemeter and its pretty darn good.
I’ve signed up for the G.A., but I don’t know how long it’ll take before I get an invite. I suspect that it’ll be a while…
But I use http://www.extremetracking.com, it seems to work very well. It picks up waaaaaaaay more hits than StatCounter! I tried using both…ExtremeTracking would continuously log about 3 (yup, THREE) times the amount of hits than StatCounter!
Highly recommended.
http://afterthought.cjb.cc
I’ve been waiting and waiting for a GA invite. I have Urchin 5 installed on my server… I just want to see if what they’re giving away for free is in any way going to make my $999 spend on Urchin go down the drain. Hope we hear from you when your GA invite arrives.
Hi guyz…
could anyone who has extra google analytics invitation send me?
http://www.runbitchrun.com
actually i use TraceWatch…
i need something that wont take my limited space:)
i can only present my thanks to you in advance:)
hi,
Its been ages google has not sent me any invitaiotn code. I am adword customer giving them handsome revernue
Looks like to me that Google Brains have stopped working in analytics section. They clearly went into a territory which the could not handle. i have statcounter but log limit is sooo low that its useless.
Are you still offering an amazon gift card ($25)
for an anylitics code?
Update: April 4
WOW! Just received a…YOU GUESSED IT! Google Analytics INVITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too bad it’s like 11 and I gotta do homework…or else it would be the ONLY thing on my mind!!!
http://afterthought.cjb.cc