Tuesday, July 14

Privacy Disclaimer: Google Analytics Installed

On all of the other websites I manage, I have installed Google Analytics; especially within the last year. You see, the previous version of their script used to really slow down your website on page loads and the like. However the new version hardly impacts your browsing experience. So I decided to also install it on this blog (although my other blogs do not have the script installed).

So as a visitor to this blog, this is what you have the right to know about the information I am tracking:

1) The geographic location of site visitors and the duration of their visit.
2) Sources of traffic to this blog; including referring sites
3) A report on "page clicks" which is basically which links the visitors to the site follow
4) Exit and entry pages
5) Technical information, such as IP, browser, operating system, screen resolution
6) Search terms and engines that led visitors to my blog

Hopefully this information is not seen as frightful or discouraging. My guess is that most webmasters collect the same information (especially since this can be done for free); but just simply never tell you about it.

1 comment:

Adam said...

I'm afraid that I'll no longer be visiting your otherwise interezsting diary.