US: Yahoo! Web Analytics unveiled, still in beta testing
Posted by Katherine Thompson on October 9, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Yahoo! unveiled Yahoo Web Analytics (beta) on Wednesday, a rebranding of its IndexTools product.
Yahoo! report that the product will, "provides powerful data and insights reporting that help website owners evaluate their marketing performance and tweak their website designs. They'll get custom real-time reports and graphs that help them slice and dice metrics like sales, page views, and sources of traffic and ultimately identify ways to amp up their visitor satisfaction."
According to CNet News, it is a free service and has one up on Google Analytics in that the information is updated within a few minutes of user activity whereas Google stats can take about 24 hours.
Yahoo said that the updated version of the service is already available to advertisers and third-party application developers, with Yahoo Small Business. Currently, if you try to sign-up there is a waiting list where you can subscribe to updates.
Source: Yahoo! and CNet News
Yahoo! report that the product will, "provides powerful data and insights reporting that help website owners evaluate their marketing performance and tweak their website designs. They'll get custom real-time reports and graphs that help them slice and dice metrics like sales, page views, and sources of traffic and ultimately identify ways to amp up their visitor satisfaction."According to CNet News, it is a free service and has one up on Google Analytics in that the information is updated within a few minutes of user activity whereas Google stats can take about 24 hours.
Yahoo said that the updated version of the service is already available to advertisers and third-party application developers, with Yahoo Small Business. Currently, if you try to sign-up there is a waiting list where you can subscribe to updates.
Source: Yahoo! and CNet News
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