I’ve been using Google analytics for Tinymail.org for a few months now.
I was mostly interested in results per city. As expected is Helsinki scoring high. Since a lot of Modest’s developers live in Spain there are a few cities with a lot of visits in Spain too. Now I know where you guys live!
Nothing surprising. Except maybe the visitors from the Indian cities Hyderabad and Bangalore. I wonder what Indian company is working on a mobile E-mail client? The visitors from South America are interesting too! Are you guys working on one for OLPC?
I also have a lot of Brooklyn and Tempe visitors. That’s Red Hat, right?
What Nokia division can we find in Oulu by the way? And Sydney, is that jdub visiting?
Cute and I guess typical are all European cities. All major cities in Europe had a lot of visitors. Just never really a lot, unless they are located in Finland and are called either Helsinki or Oulu.
With one single exception for Europe: a city in my own country, Heist-Op-Den-Berg. So, who’s that Tinymail fan in Heist-Op-Den-Berg? Let’s get a drink somewhere? What about FOSDEM this year? It was not me, my own home city scored like all other European cities.
Disappointing is Russia. The visits for all of Russia compares to one European city, all Russian visitors came from either Moscow, Tula or Lisichansk. In Russia E-mail libraries code you?
I had three visits from Honolulu!
What is strange is that Google analytic’s analysis of amount of visitors doesn’t really match my actual Apache logs if I manually count them. Something like 60% less unique visits on Google analytics. I wonder at what point will Google analytics start grouping the hits of a user as an actual visit?
Hmm, I might be mistaken but isn’t evolution maintained (partly) in India?
I heard that Novell has fired that team and some top executives too, few weeks back.
Nokia has got a development unit in Bangalore… would they have ventured?
Re: stats discrepancy. I adblock google-analytics.com, and I suspect I’m not the only one.
Note that google analytics won’t count users whose browsers don’t support Javascript.
One of the localization guys of the OLPC (me) is from India.
Google Analytics requires Javascript. Anybody who shows up without Javascript won’t get counted by it. Also, anybody with any sense is running Firefox with NoScript, and also has Google Analytics blacklisted as “untrusted”. Why hand Google a pile more personal info to keep forever and use against your own interests?
Google is awesome, and the more data people have, the more they can optimize their servers for reality. If you have any honor, don’t screw with stats.
I don’t even leave my Googlebot/2.1 or IE7 useragents on when I’m not actively doing something that needs them…. Firefox 3 is awesome.
To some of the users above talking about blocking google-analytics…
I think this has probably come up before, but doesnt the high (i’m guessing?) percentage of Linux users using Adblock software only hurt our Linux penetration numbers as far as things with a web presence go?
Wouldn’t you want as many logs to show you are using Linux (or even your web browser) as possible?