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Are you using Google Analytics yet?  Overall I am very pleased with it and you can’t beat the price (free).

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Did you know you can use it with a intranet as well?  One thing that you have to watch out for though is if you use http internally and SSL (https) externally.  If so, check out Reuben Yau’s post on how to handle both cases with a little extra javascript.  If you want to use it with SharePoint 2007 you will just need to place the javascript within the master page so all your pages get tracked.

If you have some money to burn, I have read/heard that Mint is another package to check-out.  Leave a comment on others that you like or if you have used Mint.

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  1. Courtenay — October 10, 2007 #

    Surely you cannot use google analytics to track internal sites? even if the sharepoint server can access the web, doesnt google need to access the site itself too?

  2. Kale — October 11, 2007 #

    Hi Courtenay,

    You sure can. Google doesn’t need access to your site, all the data that it tracks is sent via the urchin.js script…so so it is outbound traffic only. The one issue you might run into is if your firewall blocks that traffic, but that is doubtful.

    Just signup for it at https://www.google.com/analytics and place the code on a test page to check it out. It will take a day or so for the traffic to start showing up. Once you find it working you can work on getting it on all your pages via Master pages if you are running 2007. You can place the code in a Content Editor Web Part by the way, so it is very easy to test!

    Hope that helps.

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