Web stats analysis – Google Analytics still not performing

A couple of weeks ago, when Google Analytics anounced it was going to a free for all model, everyone was happy about it. Then we all tried to sign-up on one day and the entire system got overloaded. I managed to get a few sites registered before they stopped new registrations and from what I’ve seen the reporting is rather good – although it hasn’t picked up any of my Adwords clicks on one account. Also the reporting seems to be a couple of days behind. I’m sure this is just due to the backlog from the startup and eventually we’ll get close to real-time reporting.
In the meantime though I want to see what’s happening today, so I continue to use Statcounter.com. Statcounter analyses the last 100 pageviews for free, more if you want to pay. For sites that are not that busy it’s a great way to analyse traffic on a daily basis for free. You can also have multiple sites on the one account.