VisiStat introduces new updates which includes an ExpressStat API which will help developers and web masters to automate the process of implementation and managing the VisiStat code.

The idea is to take the complexity out of the equation so that customers don’t have to worry about implementation issues.

Read more at PRWeb

I personally have never used VisiStat before but there is a 7 day full featured trial version. I walked through the demo and the reports appear to be very simple and straight forward. VisiStat makes really good use of combining stats with a modern look and feel (which includes cool charts and graphics).

“Utah-based Omniture announced this evening that it is pricing its initial public offering at $6.50 per share, making its IPO worth approximately $50.1M. The offering price is below the initial $7.50 to $9 range the company had forecasted in its earlier IPO filings. The firm said that it is offering 10,700,000 shares of its common stock on the Nasdaq as OMTR”

See the fully story here: http://www.techrockies.com/story/0004413.html

“LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WebSideStory, Inc. a leading provider of on-demand digital marketing solutions and real-time enterprise analytics solutions, today announced that it has been recognized by a leading independent U.K. research firm as having one of the most comprehensive solutions for meeting the needs of online marketers.”

Fully Story: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060627/latu030.html?.v=59

“PORTLAND — “Oscars of the Business World” recognize analytics leader for accuracy and usability enhancements introduced in WebTrends 7.5 On Demand WebTrends Inc., the market leader for web analytics and Marketing Performance Management solutions, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in the “Best New Product or Service” category for the 2006 American Business Awards. WebTrends earned finalist honors for WebTrends(R) 7.5 On Demand, which introduced industry best practices for accurate metrics in the face of increasing third-party cookie rejection as well as new data discovery features, enabling marketers to easily personalize, understand, share and take action on web information.”

Source: http://portland.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=77686&type_news=past

Yes this is still the same Web Analytics blog so please don’t leave.

I have been testing out a new blog look and header image and have finally decided to stick with an idea. I tried a header with my face on it but it looked kind of weird so I got rid of it.

Thanks to Tracy Kalancha, for helping me out on this!

Google recently had some issues with its site command that may have affected the stats of many SEMs’ clients (in terms of monitoring pages indexed).

This blurb is from Adam Lasnik at John Battelle’s Searchblog

“I work with Matt Cutts and other engineers in the Search Quality Team at Google. And yes, we noticed that lots of subdomains got indexed last week — and sometimes listed in search results — that shouldn’t have been. Compounding the issue, our result count estimates in these contexts was MANY orders of magnitude off. For example, the one site that supposedly had 5.5 billion pages in the index actually had under 1/100,000th of that.

So how did this happen? We pushed some corrupted data with our index. Once we diagnosed the problem, we started rolling the data back and pushed something better… and we’ve been putting in place checks so that this kind of thing doesn’t happen again.”

Besides offering some of the best free analytics available on the Internet, Google is striving to constantly improve by offering updates to its services. The latest list of updates that Google Analytics has made include:

- Support for Safari browsers
- Better Site Overlay (to work with dynamic content)
- Page Query Report updated with Dynamic Content Report
- Updated Filter settings
- Allowing for editing of time zones and account name changes

They are still only sending out new signups via invitation but if you ever do get an invite don’t let go of it. Just because it’s free doesn’t mean it doesn’t allow for in-depth segmentation which can help site owners find the keys to increasing ROI.