Comments on: 7 Advanced Points to Remember While Choosing Your Traffic Monitoring Program http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/08/7-advanced-points-to-remember-while-choosing-your-traffic-tracking-program/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:40:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ravi P http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/08/7-advanced-points-to-remember-while-choosing-your-traffic-tracking-program/#comment-10936 Ravi P Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:33:11 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=4988#comment-10936 Maneesh, Very nicely laid out article. However, I would beg to differ with you on #1 at least. The objective of any web analytics tools (read : google analytics) is to understand users preferences and make tweaks to the site so that it lets user complete the action that she has come from. the real time ability doesnt help as its very small amount of data to take decision on any of the item. Moreover, real time updates are oh health check in nature and there is no actionable analytics value to it. What do you think ? Maneesh,

Very nicely laid out article. However, I would beg to differ with you on #1 at least.

The objective of any web analytics tools (read : google analytics) is to understand users preferences and make tweaks to the site so that it lets user complete the action that she has come from. the real time ability doesnt help as its very small amount of data to take decision on any of the item. Moreover, real time updates are oh health check in nature and there is no actionable analytics value to it.

What do you think ?

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