Microsoft’s Free Web Analytical Tool- Gatineau
Microsoft is all set to roll out the free web analytical tool supposed to give good competition to Google Analytics. The tool has been named Gatineau and is still in beta phase. You can get the beta invite for Gatineau from here.
Initially Gatineau will be rolled out only in English and will be available in countries which have adCenter support. With this free too, its going to be stiff competition for Google Analytics, but its not sure what all features are available in Gatineau.
Here are few screen shots of Gatineau, which definitely looks promising.
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Sep 15th, 2007 at 10:50 am
The screenshots are looking very cool, and usable. I’m signing up for an invite. Thanks for the heads up!
Since I’m a stats addict, I’d love to try this
Sep 15th, 2007 at 10:56 am
This is awsome. My 103 bees has stopped working after i got digged. I might use this now to compare it with google analytics
Sep 15th, 2007 at 11:02 am
THe chart is cool. I wonder if this free tool will be able to beat google analytic.
The chart is not as spiky as Google Analytic. I love the mountain peak-like chart.
And it seems to showing our peak traffic day clearly (screen shot one).
Sep 15th, 2007 at 11:05 am
@Kenxu: After major changes in Analytics (GA) i find it little difficult to master it. 103 bees are better than that. But there is a limitation on it. I will need time to work around with GA.
Sep 15th, 2007 at 11:08 am
@Shankar,
Lets see if we can get a beta invite.
@Ken Xu,
Lets see what all features are there in the offer to beat GA.
@Ashish,
You are right, there are limitations in 103bees. But I feel its easy to use GA.
Sep 15th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Very nice - Stumbled.
Sep 15th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I’m always game for any stats tool. GA is not accurate and I’m sure it reports less than what we actually receiver. Waiting eagarly to try this one out…
By the way, the page doesn’t works in FX. I had to use IE to get the job done.
Sep 15th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
@Gili,
Thanks for the Stumble.
@Ashwin,
None of the Stats tool are accurate! BTW which page is not opening in FX? You mean the signup page? I used FX to sign up!
Sep 15th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Looks Cool
Sep 15th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Looks interesting but it ll take time to establish a reputation!
Sep 15th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
They look so tempting. At one point I had 4 different stats running…However, I realized it is slowing my blog, hence stuck to Analytics and removed everything else. I will have to compare Analytics this with this tool.
But all said and done it is hard to move from one to another after you have months of previous traffic data.
Gatineau may get lot of new subscribers, but moving GA subscribers would be a tough ask, unless they have some real good stuff in there..
Sep 15th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Thanks for the information. I’m interested to see how it compares to Google Analytics.
Sep 15th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
A very nice find. I’m getting my invite now
Sep 15th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Impressive…
Sep 15th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
The screenshots look good , i have registered for the invite too .
Sep 16th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Screenshots look promising, but i doubt if they can compete with GA. If they can have better features or atleast visually appealing features then its not hard to get GA users.
Sep 16th, 2007 at 11:17 am
@Trakin,
You are right! Unless they have some solid features, people may not move from GA or any other stats.
Lets see what Microsoft has to offer when it gets released.
Sep 16th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
analytics not work with me so I hope this work with me, it’s really tough decision to go with MS service
Oct 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 am
Well it is very hard to move from Google to MS. But i might as well give it a go and see. I have noticed i get huge traffic differences on my own blog between sitemeter, blog stats and Google, so will see where MS ranges.
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