Who here uses Google Analytics (GA) and why?

With the launch of Google+ to a HUGE online fanfare, along with the memorable Panda update recently, Google are another step on their way to Web domination. Bearing that in mind, do you use GA to monitor traffic to your site therefore effectively giving Google all your stats or do you prefer to use other traffic monitoring methods?

Interested in everyones views on this
Mark
PS Do I sounds too paranoid yer think? LOL

 

hmm i am using that , for here on GA , i can analyse my site traffics , visitors , and keywords ! really so useful for me .

 

Apologies to site admin, I`m new here, this should have gone into Search Engines/Google forum
Mark

 

I consider the statistics that are shown by AWStats. I think GA is not that accurate, it always shows less than what web server shows. Also since it is a JavaScript, JavaScript must be enabled on the audience's web browser. And i think some web browsers does not even support JavaScript.

 

Thats a great point re Javascript, thanks

 

I use it because it's free.

However, I do feel a bit worried when I think about how much of my personal information they have access too.

 

Yes, i use it. GA has a new feature to track your social media presence as well

 

i use it,integrated with adsense

 

I use Google Analytics on my websites and I know they record all our data but hey, they also deliver us the people straight at our doorstep right

 

You have to trade the benefit of best-in-field analysis with your paranoia ;-)
I find GA is by far the best tool - and use it on all my sites where I'll be tweaking the website to optimize it.

Once a website is optimized I often delete the GA Javascript

 

Google Analytics all the way brother. By Google Analytics I can:
See where the traffic is coming from (continent, city etc)
the keywords used to access the site
source of traffic (direct traffic, referring sites or using PPC)
the number of visitors to your site on a particular day
time spent on your site

 

Google Analytics gives me a complete summary of what I want to know about my site be it regarding visitors, keywords or time spent on the site

 

Same here so i keep my main sites away from GA

 

Use Statcounter the best in the web analytics