Anyone use this tool? Looks promising.

It's useful a little, but not much.
Google won't ever tell people things they really want to know

Google Analytics is VERY useful, if you think otherwise you're obviously haven't taken the time to read through the descriptions of all of the different information presented.

Do yourself a favor and take some time to learn what all of the data means and you will have a much better idea of how visitors are getting to/using/exiting your site.

I know it without google

he's too smart for that

Its work and work and work and then eventually it works!

I'm still waiting for an invite to start using the tool, I've heard really good reviews about it.

Sign-up today, wait for an invite, it's worth the wait.

http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html

Google Analytics is a great program if you take the time to learn to use it and understand the information that is being collected.

http://www.google.com/analytics/conversionuniversity_dt.html

It's a great program. I've always used AWStats or Webalizer but I have started using only the Google Analytics tool. Great information about vistors, content viewed, keywords used to search, where they came from, etc. You can even set up different goals if you have certain pages that you want users to end up on, etc. GREAT!

I've just received my invitation after a couple of months of wait

AWSTATS is my tool of preference.

using analytics... great... especially it provides enough info to optimize your pages, your code, your website... use it all the time... just took some time to add the code on each page.... lol

I have signed up about 3 months ago and still did have not received an invite
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The Property Magnet

I signed about 10 sites the first day they opened, and my report on them is that at times it's too complex for what normally would be wanted. I think if they create just a one page "snapshot" of all of the stats for one domain then it would be great.

Google's stats program is the best in the business. The greatest feature is the overlay function that it provides.

I think they did a pretty nice job of the "snapshot" with the default view - the executive overview. It has a slick set of graphs that show how many visitors, how many pageviews, new vs returning visitors, a pie chart showing top referring sites, and a map showing where your visitors came from. I love Google Analytics, and find it's much faster than Webtrends Live. Once you setup conversion tracking you can get into some pretty sophisticated web metrics too.

Google Analytics is a great tool-- and they just took it out of beta and have reformatted reports in a way that makes it even easy for a novice.

Great tool!