I finally got round to installing Urchin 6 (beta) this evening.As my personal servers are running Ubuntu I opted for the source install, however for some reason Urchin sees it as Fedora? It works, but it's a very odd thing to report...As the software is commercial you have to get a license. Fortunately once it's installed you can simply follow the wizard to get your license key … [Read more...] about Urchin 6 Beta – First Impressions
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Urchin 6 Finally In Beta!
Urchin announced its acquisition by Google approximately 3 years ago.I'd been in talks with Urchin prior to the acquisition and had installed a trial version of the software. The main difference between the Urchin software and the SAAS was that one is installed on your server and reads your logs (a bit like Awstats) while the other uses a bit of Javascript in your pages to … [Read more...] about Urchin 6 Finally In Beta!
Urchin is dead – Google Analytics Takes its place
Google told us all towards the end of last week that our Urchin accounts would be only semi-accessible over the weekend as they were converting to "Google accounts". … [Read more...] about Urchin is dead – Google Analytics Takes its place
Google to acquire Urchin
Urchin has announced today that it is to be acquired by Google. "Google plans to offer Urchin to advertisers and web site owners to enable them to increase their advertising return on investment and make their web sites more effective. " What exactly does that mean? Well, it's probably a little early to say with certainty, but I would presume that they intend to use Urchin's … [Read more...] about Google to acquire Urchin
Microsoft Taking On Google Analytics?
Peter got to see inside Microsoft's upcoming log analysis tool, which is obviously aimed at competing against Google Analytics (Urchin). It would be nice to see someone take on Google in this space, especially as there have been issues reported by people again in the last few days One of the sites I run Analytics on hasn't reported accurately in months, so a decent alternative … [Read more...] about Microsoft Taking On Google Analytics?