I’ve been reading Google Hacks as an “assignment” from my local Linux user group. Basically, we raffle off review copies of books donated to us from O’Reilly. One of the requirements of this is that we review these books. Well, I’ll have my review finished soon. But that’s not what I wanted to write about in this post.

One of the final chapters in the book contains hacks for webmasters. As the master of my own as well as a few other web sites, this chapter was very interesting for me. It pointed me in the direction of Google’s tools for webmasters, in particular Google Analytics. I’ve known about this tool for a while, but I finally decided to check it out. I love it. All I have to do is add a snipped of JavaScript on all of my web pages (view the source of this one and you’ll see it there at the bottom), and Google gives me all sorts of pretty graphs.