Blackbeaks Blog….All things Analytics

As reported on Eric Peterson’s blog a few days ago we will be going to Bora Bora for our Honeymoon. Basically I don’t expect anyone to be able to make it, but I am hosting a web analytics wednesday here:

Welcome!

Eric Peterson calls for a European sister organisation of the WAA citing what he calls “the inevitable conclusion that Europe is about to really take off in terms of the adoption and use of web analytics” as his underlying belief that the European market needs outweigh the current level of support offered by the International [...]

I was asked to explain what I meant in a recent post about using standard deviations with web analytics data to formulate benchmarks.
First I’ll explain what I mean by Standard deviations. A standard deviation is the most common measure of a statistical dispersion, in other words measuring how widely spread the values in a data [...]

As I eluded on the 10th April Dennis Mortensen kindly confirmed it today.
IndexTools is now free under the Yahoo banner. Cool!
Dennis comments on his site;
Today we will communicate that we¢‚¬„¢ll require our partners and clients to accept a new standard Yahoo! agreement and that Yahoo! (we) currently intends to provide the service FREE of charge [...]

The ongoing industry consolidation continues as Yahoo have acquired IndexTools and it’s potentially an industry changing line in the sand. It’s more than possible that the entire toolset that IndexTools own will like Google Analytics before it be given away to it’s 150,000 customers that run Yahoo accounts. Heartfelt congratulations to all at Indextools, especially [...]