More on the new Google Analytics release, looking very nice.

Quoted: People underestimate the value of being pretty. Our world of web analytics is already too complex and data is hard to parse and insights harder still to get. Effective presentation of data (ok pretty!) is greatly accretive to helping understand trends and insights and significantly increase ease of use both for a lay person and the super analyst.

Hmmm, just when I was getting good at the old one. Actually, the old one has some annoyances which are hopefully fixed here, especially on Linux.

And it looks like the new one uses sparklines. I love sparklines.

Nice, Google Reader is now giving sub counts in their UA header when crawling yer feeds. Better than guessing!

EDIT: This is _very_ recently added ... like, late night 2/15 recent. So if you can't find the right header in your logs, get newer ones.

Quoted: Yes, Google Reader reports subscriber counts when we crawl feeds (within the "User-Agent:" header in HTTP). Currently, these counts include users of both Google Reader and the Google Personalized Homepage, and over time will include subscriptions from other Google properties.

Like cssbeauty.com for statisticians and other data geeks.

Microsoft tool to predict demographics based on search terms ... interesting.

Quoted: You can use adCenter technology to predict a customer’s age, gender, and other demographic information according to his or her online behavior—that is, from search queries and webpage views.

Redotting from theshortcut:

Quoted: Nice listing on Wikipedia of all documented user agent strings

Quoted: Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site.

Quoted: Modlogan is a modular logfile analyzer which is currently able to parse ftp-, webserver and squid logs. The generated output can be viewed by a webbrowser (->moglogan, webalizer) or your favorite text editor (->text). The template engine allows you to create the output with your prefered look and feel.