by Brian Clifton | Mar 4, 2010 | GTM & GA, Urchin software - Deprecated!
There are two Google products for web analytics – Urchin Software and Google Analytics. Which one should you choose? This article describes what criteria to use for deciding between the two and is a follow up to my recent article “What is Urchin 6”....
by Brian Clifton | Jan 29, 2010 | Urchin software - Deprecated!
I often receive questions about Urchin – what it is (typically: Is it the commercial version of GA?) how it compares with Google Analytics, and how to choose between the two. This post, an abstract from the latest version of the book, explains what Urchin is,...
by Brian Clifton | Oct 17, 2007 | GTM & GA, Urchin software - Deprecated!
Keeping a local copy of your Google Analytics data can be very useful for your organisation. For example, for third party data audits, reprocessing data, troubleshooting purposes, and for viewing data longer than 25 months (Google’s current data retention...
by Brian Clifton | Oct 16, 2007 | Data Understanding, GTM & GA, Urchin software - Deprecated!
Urchin is the software company and technology that Google acquired in April 2005 that went on to become Google Analytics. Urchin software remains a product in its own right and is a downloadable software tool that runs on a local server (Unix and Windows) providing...
by Brian Clifton | Oct 7, 2007 | Data Understanding, GTM & GA, Urchin software - Deprecated!
My colleague Avinash recently presented at SES San Jose his thoughts on the current vendor space including: Visual Sciences, Omniture, IndexTools, Clicktracks, WebTrends and Google Analytics. As always, his talks are very engaging and thought provoking. For me though,...
by Brian Clifton | Sep 12, 2007 | Data Understanding, Urchin software - Deprecated!
Recently, the perception of ABCE’s role for the web analytics industry appears to have become blurred. Hence I wanted to post some comments here – these were also posted on the Web Analytics Association’s forum last month. ABC ELECTRONIC is the...