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To me, Gatineau is a run-down part of Canada’s national capital region. It’s best attribute is that you can buy beer in corner stores (depanneurs). To Microsoft, Gatineau is their version of Google Analytics that is soon going into alpha. SEO blogger David Naylor has posted some early screen shots. Check them out. IMHO, the interface looks like cheesy PowerPoint 3-D graphics – not too impressive considering Google’s classy revamp of analytics.

Also, based on the screenshot below, how does Microsoft KNOW the gender of your site traffic???

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They said they’d shut down the old Analytics UI on July 18th. It’s still working…. shhhh don’t anybody tell

UPDATE: old analytics UI was finally yanked this weekend… RIP.

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A few months back Google radically changed it’s Analytics UI. The original was super sharp – the overview showing 4 panes of charts showing visitors, page views, source, geography… The new interface is much more powerful – but misses that sleek at-a-glance traffic view. I’ve been using both. The problem is with Google’s announcement that they’ll be discontinuing the old UI on July 18.

The biggest beef I have is with Google’s hourly updates of the data. The old UI updates fine – but the new one is usually 3 hours later… Maybe knockin’ off old analytics will help the performance. Maybe I’m just being anal…

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