Google rolls out new version of Google Analytics and it’s looking better than ever!
What is new?
In the new version, your reports have been redesigned for clarity, greater visibility of important metrics, and ease of use. Here are just a few of the features you’ll notice:
- Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format.
- Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can email to others.
- Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select date ranges without losing sight of long term trends.
- Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion University tips are available from every report.
The new interface has everything the previous interface had and more. In addition, links within reports make it easier to navigate related information and explore your data. (The above is from an email that Google sent me.)
Anyway, let’s take a visual tour of the new interface.
The interface undergoes a tremendous update, first of all. It looks much cleaner, much sleeker and feels faster. I’ll share with you some site statistics meanwhile.
From the above chart, you can see where my visitors are coming from. Not many people come from Asia and the reason is that most people come to this blog for images. I mean, they even took image of my brother’s birthday cake and post it on blogs to wish their friends happy birthday, wish they at least link back sometimes. I don’t block hot linking but I discourage hot-linking by placing a watermark on all my images. (more…)
I was arguing with my girlfriend about women not inventing anything useful. In an attempt to prove me wrong she Google “She invented” only to have ask Did you mean “He invented”.
Try googling “she invent”, you get a bias statement asking if you meant that “he invent”. Search engines are funny guys. Yeah, guys.
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Check out Ms. Dewey!
_(Ms. Dewey wants you to search.)_
Ms. Dewey tries to help you in your search by disturbing you. She is impatient and scold you for no reason. I hate Ms. Dewey! Give me back Google or something.
Last months visitors are are all high, page visits peak at 792. I now use Google Analytics to track visitors as they present a more accurate overview of the pages that people visit.
_(Search statistics from May 2 to June 1.)_
The image is generated using Microsoft Excel 2007. Very pretty colors and anti-alias. Here’s a top 20 list of who search what last month.
*Top 20 searches during May*
# mizuki yoshii - 229
# breast - 78
# kurohige kiki ippatsu - 56
# mizuki furui - 41
# playstation 3 - 37
# breast feeding - 36
# saaya irie - 34
# japanese lyrics - 32
# fiona xie bra - 30
# jay chou - 27
# james gomez - 25
# create winks - 20
# judson laipply - 20
# create msn winks - 18
# fiona xie bra blog - 18
# beconfused.com - 18
# I not stupid too - 15
# beconfused - 14
# shizuka umemoto - 13
# ann kok bra - 12
You know, I kinda get uneasy when people search for “beconfused” and “beconfused.com”. I wonder why are people try to search for those. People are always searching for “breast” somehow.
_(Visits and Page view statistics from May 2 to June 1.)_
I use Google Analytics now because it tracks real visitors better. Previous I use AWStats which is also very good. Unfortunately AWStats track people who link directly to my images too. I am not interested in those visitors too.
Microsoft announced a new product - Windows Live Search. This product is the update for Windows Desktop Search. Microsoft decides it’s time to change its name.
As Microsoft watchers inside and outside the company have noted, Microsoft is not terribly astute when it comes to naming its products. But on Wednesday, the branding department hit a new low, in terms of bad naming choices. Microsoft has decided to christen the new Windows desktop search application (that can search your desktop/Intranet and Internet), due to go beta later this year, as “Windows Live Search.” But there already is a Windows Live Search รข?? the Internet search service that is currently in beta. Are the two products the same? No, the Softies said. Are they related? Nope. We’ve decided we’re going to try using Windows Live Search A (for the desktop app version) and Windows Live Search S for the MSN service. And we thought the SharePoint branding was confusing!
Source: Microsoft Watch
Perhaps it’s time to check out the dictionary, Microsoft. There are lots of unused words. Windows Live Search, both the desktop and the online version, is currently under beta.
You can find out more information on Live Search at the Find My Stuff Team Blog.
Try LeapFish, it’s a website that attempts to evaluate how much is your domain name worth. I test it on //beconfused:
CREATING ANALYSIS………..
beconfused.com
Combined Value Score: 109
Top Level Domain Score: 10
Unwanted Characters Score: 10
Dictionary Word Score: 50
Length Score: 8
Archive.org Score: 6
Google Search Results: 568
Yahoo Search Results: 2,820
MSN Search Results: 233
Search Engine Score: 25
Estimated Base Value: $327.00
Estimated Actual Value: $17,822.00
Well, I don’t know if it’s accurate, just something interesting I guess. And yes, my domain name is too long it seems.
You can check out a preview of Yahoo!’s new design.
_(Yahoo!’s upcoming design preview.)_
It’s 1024 x 768 by default. You can set it to 800 x 600 at the Page Options. It’s good to see that the designers are finally switching to 1024 x 768. It’s about time most people set their computers to that screen resolution.
Personally, it’s an improvement I feel. I can find the Yahoo! services better than before. As for the design, it looks kinda strange to me. What do you think of the new design?
By the way, as of current, only Internet Explorer and Firefox it seems. Opera didn’t work.
