Web Analytics

Although I wanted to work on my Xi’an Excursion post, it was not to be. First I fell asleep, then I wasted time and my website wasn’t accessible from inside China, I couldn’t check my email or update my blog, now I’m trying to find a job, but I came across a posting on one of the WordPress developer’s blogs about Google Analytics. This is a free service now being offered by Google. It is basically a repackaging of Urchin, which I used while at Shell Canada and quite liked.

I’m in the process of updating all my templates and webpages to use the snippet of javascript it requires. You can never have enough web analytics, or can you? I will compare it to the data given to me by Mint and Webalizer which is what my webhost provides.

2025 Update

Eventually I used Google Analytics to tracks visitors for years on this website, this is another career I seem to have missed out of though I did use my knowledge while I worked for CWT. The web host I linked to above was 8-95.com which was my web host back in the day, though not my first web host. Google Analytics has changed a lot over the years, it went first to Universal Analytics not it seems to be part of a greater marketing ecosystem with the portion installed in WordPress being called Site Kit.

In 2025 I finally moved my blog to a new web host. A lot of older shorter blog postings have been deleted over the years but this post about Matt writing about Google Analytics can stay as tracking the popularity and influence of your blog or website became more than a hobby, it became an entire industry. So if you have thoughts on how things were in the good old days twenty years ago, you can leave a comment below.

This entry was originaly posted on November 15th, 2005, it was last edited on August 24th, 2025 and is filed under: Technology and tagged: Analytics, Blogging, Google Analytics.