I won’t bore you with more details on our move. We ate pizza again, we moved more stuff, etc. We are about 95% done now, thanks to help from Maria last night.

I will bore you with geek talk though. I’ve been waiting to get an invitation to Google Analytics for months now, and yesterday that invitation finally came! “Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site.” Basically it’s a site counter and statistics compiler. I’ve used other services in the past, and still use StatCounter quite a bit, but I’m excited to see how Google’s service stacks up against the others. I’ve added analytics code to both edpaffjr.com and oarsa.org but I’m still waiting for data. According to their site it usually takes 24 hours before data will begin to appear. That means I’ve got about three more hours until I’ll get the full experience. Stay tuned for a review…

Update: I was finally able to view some stats from yesterday’s hits. One thing that is disappointing is that Analytics is not real time. You cannot see the results of today’s hits until tomorrow. I also noticed that I could not find a full referral path for people who are hitting the site. It’s easy to find the referring domain, and with some digging you can figure out the referring page, but if there are any query strings tied to the referral you cannot see those, or at least I have not found a way. Those are the two complaints that I have so far. Other than that I’ve really enjoyed digging through the pages of stats. This is much better than my current StatCounter, which will only show the last 100 hits. As Analytics is only currently available by invitation, I hope this means they are still working on more features.