{"id":202,"date":"2007-02-21T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T00:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/unleash-the-power-of-web-analytics\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:32:55","slug":"unleash-the-power-of-web-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/unleash-the-power-of-web-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Unleash the Power of Web Analytics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Valuable\" hspace=\"7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/valuable.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>In early January I was using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clicktracks.com\/products\/appetizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ClickTracks Appetizer<\/a> (free web analytics tool if your data source is web logs) and gave the feedback to ClickTracks that I wish they provided more reports and features in their free tool. I felt that having access to the Site Overview and other reports would be really helpful to users of the free tool. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Stebbins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clicktracks.com\/team.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VP of Marketing for ClickTracks<\/a>, gamely agreed (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clicktracks.com\/products\/appetizer\/appetizer_test_with_avinash.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story here<\/a>) but put for a small condition, that I do a educational seminar for ClickTracks users. <\/p>\n<p>Never the one to refuse a reasonable offer to educate the community, and get free reports for web analytics users in exchange, I agreed to do the seminar. It was a icing on the cake that the seminar is devoid of sales pitches and very much geared towards educating any web analytics practitioner (regardless of what tool they might use).<\/p>\n<p>I hope that all the ClickTracks Appetizer users have been using and enjoying the additional reports that were made available in the tool. <\/p>\n<p>The topic of the seminar is: &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clicktracks.com\/seminars\/support_train.php?cat_id=16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unleash the Power of Web Analytics<\/a>&rdquo;. <\/p>\n<p>[<em>Funny side story<\/em>: I spend just under five years working at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Graphics Inc<\/a> and at SGI we would &ldquo;unleash&rdquo; everything. Unleash the power of computing. Unleash innovation. Unleash the power of marketing. Unleash this and unleash that. Ahhh&hellip; those were the days! :)] <\/p>\n<p>Here is the description of the class: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>The amount of information that a sophisticated web analytics tool provides can be positively overwhelming! Check out Avinash Kaushik&#8217;s tips for simplifying your approach to web analytics. In the class (note: the same topic will be presented both days) Avinash will present tips and tricks on how to avoid a lot of the complexities of web analytics and how to get down to the basics that make a difference. He&rsquo;ll provide his expert advice on how web analytics can add value to your business; best practices and approaches for your reporting and analysis; and how to leverage segmentation and optimizing for search.<\/em> <\/ul>\n<p>Sounds interesting? You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clicktracks.com\/seminars\/support_train.php?cat_id=16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> to sign up (it is a free seminar, anyone can attend).<\/p>\n<p>The classes are on Mon Feb 26th 10:00 am PST (1:00 pm EST \/ 6:00 pm UK) and Tue Feb 27th 7:00 am PST (10:00 am EST \/ 3:00 pm UK). It is the same class that will be repeated twice, for the benefit of our European friends.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you can attend, it would be great to present to all of you and answer your questions.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a suggestion for a particular facet or angle you would like me to cover or you have a burning question or simply want me to show a particular report or metric, please send me a email (blog at kaushik dot net) or add a comment to this post.<\/p>\n<p>Ok now off to create the slides for the seminar (that were due back to Dan yesterday!).<\/p>\n<p><i>[Like this post? 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