On 3 Apr 2008, at 15:41, Jon Pratty wrote:
> Hi Tony
>
> What I refer to - probably erroneously - as Google's new 'benchmarking
> service' is in fact their recently launched Data Sharing option,
> accessed through your Google Analytics homepage. This GA Dating
> Sharing
> effort involves webmasters signing up to share web stat info (gathered
> by Google Analytics) from your own site anonymously with the uber-
> Google
> database. You are then able to download comparitive stats from what
> Google describes as 'similar sites'.
Well I signed up the other account (it is as you say, share with
others to get the facility) and clicking the benchmarking link shows
my data, compared to “All sites of similar size”
https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=90161&topic=13962
no slowing down at all though, just as fast as usual.
here's the stats for http://www.bclm.co.uk in the benchmark view…
http://img.skitch.com/20080403-xijtjfn5jcj495x345x49ew257.png
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